Subject: [Tweeters] RE: Bird Flu - possible motives for the hype
Date: Nov 13 10:28:44 2005
From: Ron - rmcclsky at mindspring.com


I suspect that most of those who are dismissing this as just hype have never seen a severe case of influenza. One of the clerks in the Emergency room where I worked in Portland got influenza and was dead in 5 days. She was an otherwise healthy young woman.

They also are forgetting history. There have been at least 3 bird flu pandemics in the last 100 years. The worst was estimated to have killed 10 million people in the US and over 100 million worldwide.

So, are we supposed to just sit here and wait for it to happen again? It seems obvious to me that if that happened again and the administration had not prepared, the same people that are criticizing Bush now would castigate him for not being prepared.

Obviously a no win situation unless you are a Bush supporter.

Best wishes,
Ron McCluskey