It starts when you're always afraid ... continued
Can't miss this New York Times article plastered across the top of Drudge's banner this evening: "Bush Plan Shows U.S. Is Not Ready for Deadly Flu."
"A draft of the final plan, which has been years in the making and is expected to be released later this month, says a large outbreak that began in Asia would be likely, because of modern travel patterns, to reach the United States within 'a few months or even weeks.' If such an outbreak occurred, hospitals would become overwhelmed, riots would engulf vaccination clinics, and even power and food would be in short supply, according to the plan, which was obtained by The New York Times."
The fear mongers are hard at work. The question is: What freedoms will they ask us to give up this time?
"The plan's 10 supplements suggest specific ways that local and state governments should prepare now for an eventual pandemic by, for instance, drafting legal documents that would justify quarantines. Written by health officials, the plan does yet address responses by the military or other governmental departments."
In case you're not worried yet, they're reporting cases of bird flu in Turkey and Romania to make you uneasy - hoping you still haven't noticed only birds are dying and that in the Times story Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt " emphasized that the chances that the virus now killing birds in Asia would become a human pandemic were unknown but probably low." (My emphasis.)
But put your tin-foil hat on: Scientists "have resurrected the 1918 influenza virus, the cause of one of history's most deadly epidemics, and have found that, unlike the viruses that caused more recent flu pandemics of 1957 and 1968, it was actually a bird flu that jumped directly to humans." Why would you regenerate a virus that killed millions? For research? For biological weaponry? While it's true that "the new work was immensely important, leading the way to identifying dangerous viruses before it is too late and to finding ways to disable them," now that this horrifying malady is back in the world, albeit in a lab so far, all sorts of tragic mistakes could happen - or the disease could even be unleashed by terrorists or rogue governments.
Scared enough now? Good; they like it that way. Now you'll be more pliant when they unveil the latest assault on our liberty, whatever that may be. They like a frightened populace because it opens opportunities for Big Brother to come to rescue, as it did with Y2K, after 9-11, after the hurricanes ... and the answer always translates to: To save our freedom we have to kill it - but only for a little while, until the fear passes.
Stay tuned for the latest on the avian flu scare - and remember, if you step out of line, the man will come and take you away.
"A draft of the final plan, which has been years in the making and is expected to be released later this month, says a large outbreak that began in Asia would be likely, because of modern travel patterns, to reach the United States within 'a few months or even weeks.' If such an outbreak occurred, hospitals would become overwhelmed, riots would engulf vaccination clinics, and even power and food would be in short supply, according to the plan, which was obtained by The New York Times."
The fear mongers are hard at work. The question is: What freedoms will they ask us to give up this time?
"The plan's 10 supplements suggest specific ways that local and state governments should prepare now for an eventual pandemic by, for instance, drafting legal documents that would justify quarantines. Written by health officials, the plan does yet address responses by the military or other governmental departments."
In case you're not worried yet, they're reporting cases of bird flu in Turkey and Romania to make you uneasy - hoping you still haven't noticed only birds are dying and that in the Times story Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt " emphasized that the chances that the virus now killing birds in Asia would become a human pandemic were unknown but probably low." (My emphasis.)
But put your tin-foil hat on: Scientists "have resurrected the 1918 influenza virus, the cause of one of history's most deadly epidemics, and have found that, unlike the viruses that caused more recent flu pandemics of 1957 and 1968, it was actually a bird flu that jumped directly to humans." Why would you regenerate a virus that killed millions? For research? For biological weaponry? While it's true that "the new work was immensely important, leading the way to identifying dangerous viruses before it is too late and to finding ways to disable them," now that this horrifying malady is back in the world, albeit in a lab so far, all sorts of tragic mistakes could happen - or the disease could even be unleashed by terrorists or rogue governments.
Scared enough now? Good; they like it that way. Now you'll be more pliant when they unveil the latest assault on our liberty, whatever that may be. They like a frightened populace because it opens opportunities for Big Brother to come to rescue, as it did with Y2K, after 9-11, after the hurricanes ... and the answer always translates to: To save our freedom we have to kill it - but only for a little while, until the fear passes.
Stay tuned for the latest on the avian flu scare - and remember, if you step out of line, the man will come and take you away.
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