The Pandemic Threat.

How are we doing?

We all know that sooner or later, we will face a Flu Pandemic.

Is it something to concern ourselves?

Well, if you look at the last significant event in the early part of the Twentieth century, you might tend to think so—since it wiped out more than twenty million people.

Scientists think that despite all the progress we’ve made in medicine and technology, such a Flu Pandemic might be as bad as this life-transforming event or even worse.

Faced with that kind of prospect, you might think that we would pull out all of the plugs to defeat such a threat.

No such thing.

It seems that since this possibility was announced, we are hardly better off than we were then.

Specialists in pandemics point to the fact that we do not have enough vaccine to go round; consequently, there will have to be choices made.

In a government that leans over backwards to politicize even departments that we never imagined would be publicized, we can only imagine what they by-product of such thinking might do that grand old concept of equality…..

Or consider the fact that if a Pandemic did break out,
Where would we put the sick and infected?

That’s a good question. Because we are told that most hospitals are already near capacity.

One wonders if we had taken some of those 600 billion dollars from an unwanted war, how much new capacity could have been built.

A question for the historians to ponder one might imagine….

Within a matter of days, the government will announce its plan to distribute the vaccines in the case of an emergency.

Another surprising response from the government was that they have no intention of sealing our borders when and if an outbreak occurs anywhere in the world.

They are just going to assume that it will do no good.

Such critical thinking on the part of the government should raise the level of debate; nevertheless, for the most part few people hear about what the government’s real intent is and, therefore, there is an embarrassing paucity of informed opinion on just about anything you can think of.

And we, the citizens, are the poorer for it.

Les Aaron