Reply #137: Sorry, I slept through the infectious disease class in high school. [View All]

[RevDev]

Well, you're 100% right, I am not an expert on infectious diseases and never claimed to be. But this discussion was not about who has the most knowledge on diseases...it was about whether or not we should be scared (at least that's what I was getting out of the original post). So I'm going to leave the preparation for a possible outbreak up to the experts and I'm not going to start running around screaming that the sky is falling because the fact is we don't know! I mean seriously...what good is it going to do the general public to get all worried about something that may or may not happen. There are no vaccines available to us right now...our government does not have a good history of preparing for disasters, so the bottom line is, if it comes it's going to come and millions will potentially die. That's the hard fact. As Katrina showed us, our government doesn't seem to mind too much if a disaster culls out the "undesirable" parts of our population and somehow I doubt they are going to start caring anytime soon. The US government has made a big business for a long time now of stepping on the lower class population. It makes them more powerful and it makes them richer. And the fact that those cronies are still sitting up there in the White House just proves that the people of the US don't really care. So until that attitude changes...then yeah, expect a disaster when and if the bird flu arrives.