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Sunday, March 12, 2006
Be Prepared
Welcome to the Boy Scouts!
There is an interesting interesting article in the Pueblo Chieftain today. It’s about plans to prepare for the arrival of Avian Flu, a.k.a. bird flu.
Personal preparedness will be a big part of surviving a possible flu pandemic, Dr. Chris Nevin-Woods of the City-County Health Department told a group of community representatives at a breakfast meeting Friday.
Welcome to the Boy Scouts, whose motto has always been “Be Prepared!”
I’ve been wondering about the ‘bird flu’ business and how the county was planning on preparing for its eventual arrival here. It’s good to see someone is paying attention, as I agree with last week’s reports that we’ll have the virus amongst us with this Fall’s southerly migration of all the birds that will confab above the Arctic Circle this Summer. Lots of birds from Europe and North America will mingle up there this Summer and in the course of that, I’m confident that the heretofore unphased North Americans will contract the virus and bring it south on their Fall migration to warmer climes. Then we’ll be in it like the rest of the world. Barring something about inter-species gatherins we’re not familiar with up there. Maybe we’ll be lucky. But I wouldn’t count on it.
I’d rather be prepared….