need more input!

I think we should ask David Letterman.

Dan, you are too funny!!!! On that note, Saturday night Live will be doing airline skits, etc.

Jon Stewart is the best, most accurate, most revealing news show on TV. Loved the prepardness bit.

Unfortunately, the recent Indonesia cluster scare demonstrates why it is going to be so hard for any of us much of a jump on the "real thing." That cluster was "probably" H2H transmission but "may" have already petered out, or so it appears. Or it could be spreading like wildfire unreported and unrecognized by locals. We are at the mercy of local sources for information, and misinformation, and in the early stages of any reported outbreak the speculation runs rampant because we all believe that a pandemic is at our door steps. So we can see every outbreak as becoming "the" event..which is true. But it is also true that this precious little bug will mutate itself into nothing more than a nasty cough. So all we can do is what we are doing, pull information from various sources, analyze it, compare notes, and make an educated guess. However, assuming that we all believe it is coming, and sooner than later, the real task is focus our energies on preparing and thinking about alternatives to our current daily lifestyles. If we are "ready" it doesn't really matter when it comes and, like others point out, the cable folks will be reporting live from ground zero, wearing masks for effect. If you're keeping us on this site, whatever the TV is showing is going to be "old news" to you as you fill up your storage barrels with good water before the plant shuts down.