Alert Level 6

Stocks will go down on the news but will not crash.

The news will have a field day.

The masses won't care.

I have to agree that the initial reaction will be a bit of a hiccup.  Depending on how the media handles things will be how things shift from there.  So far there have been an increased amount of news articles to prepare your home, stock food, etc.  However, if you get one yahoo reporter that starts saying the shelves are empty at Costco, look out!

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I'm in the Boston area - I agree it will be a hiccup and the CDC, govt., media will backpedal so fast - it will cause a flurry of media attention and people will shrug it off until they start closing down schools en masse. Then people will start whining that nobody is around to watch their kids . . . It will take many deaths before people will finally get scared but until then they'll go over the cliff with the rest of the sheep.

Nations urge WHO to change swine flu assessment
By FRANK JORDANS, Associated Press Writers Frank Jordans, Associated Press Writers 1 hr 10 mins ago

GENEVA – China, Britain, Japan and other countries urged the World Health Organization on Monday to be very cautious about declaring the arrival of a swine flu pandemic, fearing that a premature announcement could cause worldwide panic and confusion. WHO bent to their wishes.

Here is what I have observed about American society and it's survival abiltity. I think if the US was given warning that all the cities were about to be hit by nukes; only half of the people would flee for the country. The rest would not believe it or care. Same with a disease. Half will not care.

Sara123 wrote: Here is what I have observed about American society and it's survival abiltity. I think if the US was given warning that all the cities were about to be hit by nukes; only half of the people would flee for the country. The rest would not believe it or care. Same with a disease. Half will not care.

based on a little info - we were discussing this with psyche people and in my writing I have groups. We wont go deep- but - the partiers or looters - a chunkc of people - this includes the an awfully quiet group who find a quiet dark place with another person and play doctor for a very long time. You will have the house cleaners, vaccumers and work in the garden group, or the form a circle and talk about various recipes for jello salad. In the partiers you will have the drinkers who either become one of the playing doctor group only a lot louder and may pass out in the middle- there will be a crowd in the street waiting to see the rockets arrive and while be turned into etched black stains on brick walls after the fire ball hits.

You will have the screamers and looters, who will either be experience withdrawal having taken all their drugs or looters thinking they have won the nuclear lottery filling up shopping baskets who will be parked beside their charred skeletons equally charred.

The infrastructure will all be frowning, talking in monosyablles and reading from binders and and directing jeep and tank traffic while being vaccinated, and grouping to be shipped out to undisclosed location except to the shippers.

You will have grim faced preppers yet with a quiet resolution that they are ready, and pouring through checklists and yelling at their kids who will not have a clue what is going on.  The younger ones. Most of the older ones will be grieving the loss of Nintendo or their pocket game machines. Teen females and pre-teen girls will be trying to rescue their plactic baggie container of cute little bubble toys and other young crucial survval items.

TPTB will be getting shot up with vaccines and anti-virals, saying goodbye to families (the hard core ones) and  jumping into troop carriers and into troop carrier planes.

Some of us will be none of the above, sitting in our cave somewhere, and writing.

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Alert 6 will not cause a blink from 90 percent of the people. People dying by the hundreds and thousands will cause a panic...panic food buying, water buying, and everything else people think they need.

People dying by the hundreds and thousands then and only then will people pay attention.

Very little will happen in my opinion. Only an increase in deaths will catch attention. To let you know my wife went to LA when it was starting there and got sick with the flu. We are positive it was the swine flu. It was mild for her, her friend had it bad and I hardly felt a thing and we are young and healthy.