Get Ready for Avian Flu
This just in from Salon's War Room:
It's time to start stockpiling food under our beds.
It reminds me of the advice to buy duct tape and hide out in the bathrooms in case of a terrorist attack. I am so relieved to know that the government has good contingency plan in case of an avian flu pandemic.
posted by syp @ 10:54 AM
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"'Get her?' That was your whole plan? You call that science?"
But, in fairness, no one was expecting that the government would be coming around with food deliveries, were they? A little individual preparation and initiative should be expected, I would think, and the strongest criticism that could be leveled here is that this reality only trickles out through Salon coverage and the like, instead of being sold prominently by the proper officials. It should be axiomatic that if there is a giant pandemic your best bet is to avoid contact with others and be self-sufficient for a while. But, for various reasons, the idea is mocked.
It would surely be impossible for the government to deliver food door to door, and it would be epedemiologically unwise to require people to congregate at feeding stations. But it is easy to mock the only other obvious possibilty on general principles.
All that said, I just consumed my last can of tuna yesterday.
Surely, I can expect a least some semblance of professionalism from our federal government. Something along the likes of "this is a serious issue and we are doing everything possible to develop a response plan. Every citizen should also be prepared for this and any other emergency situation by having adequate food stores, clean drinking water, first aid materials.." Not "stockpile food under your bed." For god's sake, does that mean we have to build a tunnel from the sealed off bathroome (with tarps and duct tape) to our bedroom where the food is stored?
Of course I agree, but I have found people are fixating on the "under the bed" element basically for laughs.
Which is really no different from saying "Doesn't Mike Leavitt know I CAN'T STAND TUNA!?"
Just because he's concretizing the advice doesn't mean you literally must get tuna and literally put it under your bed.
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