Tracking the next pandemic: Avian Flu Talk |
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Posted: March 03 2006 at 5:02pm |
GELLERMAN: Joining me to talk about how to survive a flu pandemic is SophiaZoe. That's her screen name on AvianFluTalk, the chat-room she moderates. Welcome. SOPHIAZOE: Well, thank you for having me. GELLERMAN: I see that your online profile describes you as "unabashed free-market capitalist, constitutional watchdog, and Ayn Rand devotee." SOPHIAZOE: (Laughs) That's me! GELLERMAN: Are you a survivalist? SOPHIAZOE: Absolutely not. I'm just an average mother. I'm going to be a first-time grandmother in two months. I'm just an average citizen. GELLERMAN: So, you're not stockpiling rifles and ammo and that kind of thing? SOPHIAZOE: Well, I come from a law enforcement background, so we have weapons in the home but that's because of our background. That's not because I'm some sort of whacked-out survivalist. GELLERMAN: You're not afraid of somebody breaking down your door to get your Tamiflu? SOPHIAZOE: Well, if they tried they would be surprised. GELLERMAN: Was there ever a situation like that that happened you said, "Oh, I've got to prepare for the worst?" SOPHIAZOE: Yes. My family lived through Hurricane Hugo in 1989. Three-fourths of our state was wiped out, and I got to learn how to live in the 19th century instead of the 20th century. We didn't have electricity for ten weeks. And we had well water at the time, so that meant we had no water either. We had paychecks, my husband and I, but we had no money because the banks couldn't open because there was no electricity. We got caught with our pants down and we promised ourselves that we would never ever, ever be caught in that situation again. GELLERMAN: What kind of special precautions are you taking, if any? Should I buy Tamiflu? SOPHIAZOE: Well, I bought it. (Laughs) It's better than nothing, but it's not the golden bullet. GELLERMAN: How much food are you stocking up? SOPHIAZOE: We have a year's supply of food. GELLERMAN: A year's supply? SOPHIAZOE: A year's supply. And here's my reasoning, okay? Computer models show that if a pandemic happens – and that is still in this point and time a big "if" – when we hit the three-month mark then the illnesses and the deaths will start tapering off. Well, we're not going to be able to just pick our lives up where we dropped them off. I mean, I work in the tourist industry. I'm going to be unemployed. So, I bought food not only to get us through the pandemic period, but also the period where I'm going to be unemployed. GELLERMAN: It seems to me, you know, that you can prepare physically for this. You can have your gas masks and so on. But psychologically, how do you prepare for something like this? SOPHIAZOE: You can become overwhelmed, you can become depressed, when you're sitting there planning on how to make sure that your children survive. Mothers especially have hard times thinking along those roads. You know, it's like a group hug. I know that sounds so touchy-feely but that's – it's a cyber group hug. GELLERMAN: Boy, if this comes to pass we're in big trouble. SOPHIAZOE: If it's bad. It's a toss of the dice. It doesn't have to be bad. But I'd rather be prepared for the worst and hope for the best than hope for the best, then get caught with my pants down, as the saying goes. GELLERMAN: Well, SophiaZoe, thank you very much. SOPHIAZOE: Thank you. GELLERMAN: SophiaZoe is the online identity of the head moderator of the website, AvianFluTalk.com. Related link: |
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golden bullet.........the expression is silver bullet
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ignorance.
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Deej
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great job
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Well thank you soooooooooo very much for pointing out an error I made while I was trying to do a radio interview for the very first friggin' time in my life! They cut the part where I said that people who point out other's errors and foibles chap my butt though. Next time we have an interview request I will send them your way. <SoZo, flips her hair back and huffs off the stage> |
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Good One SZ!
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God Bless us all!
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Great job, SZ!!! You go girl!
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mightymouse
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You waltzed through that in grand style. Soooo- you're not a survivalist? Coulda fooled me. |
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Nothing matters - Therefore everything matters
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you go girl!!! rock on!
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"I am only one; but still I am one, I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do." -- Hellen Keller
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nice interview, if only one person takes notice and starts to prep, then it was worth it. well done |
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all the animals in the wood teach their children to survive from nature with one exception,
man |
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Thanks for the kind words everyone! MM... no I'm not a survivalist... just one bad, opinionated, cranky b!tch who just happens to know how to sling lead. |
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I don't mean the wacko kind - I mean the 'real kind' ie- Webster's - Survive - To remain alive or in existance. If it walks like a duck.......................... |
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Nothing matters - Therefore everything matters
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virusil
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im happy that you did it,frankly i am used to that ,i was on radio talk show and on tv,the first time was ,,,,,,,aghhhhhhh you knowbut after ....no problem
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ignorance.
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Falcon
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excellent job
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Great job, SZ!!!!!!
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Thanks so much for your intelligent, reasonable responses. Good job.-- Lois Also, adding to preps every day. I think people are tuning out because they can''t imagine the worst which we're about to experience soon. The Indonesia articcle today etc. convinces me we must be ready. Who will be alive --- the paranoid, the Mormons, save us all. Lois
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Great job, and I'm glad it was posted. I will try to listen in tomorrow, but I'm not sure if it can get it, our reception can get ify during storms, and we are supposed to get one again tomorrow, when it will broadcast about 65 miles from me...So at least I got to read it. The only other chance was during the week, and I go to bed early because I get up early for work. |
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FYI... if you choose the option to listen to the entire show you can here my clip in full. It is the second section, right after the section on Swine Flu, the pandemic that never happened.
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Sz, First...well done! I read the transcript. Good keeping on point. Second, thank you for not telling the interviewer to "push off" with the veiled sarcasm questions. I hate wit from an imbicile fledgling journalist. You did us good. |
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GELLERMAN: I see that your online profile describes you as "unabashed free-market capitalist, constitutional watchdog, and Ayn Rand devotee." SOPHIAZOE: (Laughs) That's me! Sophia, You've gotta love it! Not only were you articulate, informative and very professional... you were entertaining! Congrats. |
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SZ - great job. Who is John Galt? I first met him when I was 20. Changed my mindset forever. Thanks for giving such a cogent interview. |
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In a hundred years, we will all be bald.
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SoZo is getting famous...... Does anyone know how to upload the audio to this thread so we can create a way for everybody on the forum to listen to it? Any experts around here?
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WELL DONE
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Mickey Mouse
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Nice interview.
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super job SZ!!
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Belated Congratulations SZ. Great job on the interview!
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SZ, I was most impressed with your comments, ref. the interview. We are
so lucky to have the likes of you as the Captain of this great Forum
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When future historians look back (when this soon to be pandemic is a distant memory) your name and this Forum, no doubt, will take center stage. What a treasure trove of information it will be, not the least of which will be tracing the evolution of this deadly disease. The lessons that the world will learn, from the deadly errors we are privy to now, will possibility result in a new and far better international early warning system. But, no matter what efforts are taken, public apathy and political posturing will ever be contributing factors to the spread of contagious diseases. I congratulate all those on this Forum, and elsewhere, who take measures to stay informed and prepared, and take the time to share relevant information with others. Annie B. |
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Thanks Sophia. Perhaps this will stimulate journalists. There needs to be more news coverage, series of articles, warnings! At work I’ve asked several workers if they’ve heard of H5N1. Out of about 100 people, ONE knew about the Avian Flu but did not feel it was of any concern. Thanks Sophia, keep sharing. |
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SZ - so "whacked out survivalists", who prepare their familiies for all kinds of eventualities are somehow crazy and people who prepare for just one thing are somehow better? Time to rethink that one. I prefer the first group by far. Those who live in glass houses........ Time to take the blinders off girl! Otherwise the interview was pretty good. |
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Well Thor, I'm sorry you took offense. They were looking for someone who was a survivalist as in "bunkered in awaiting Armaghedon". I am not that. I am an average citizen. I choose to believe that we can reach more people and bring them to our way of prepping by being reasoned and logical. To each his/her own though. BTW: Have you dug your bunker yet? |
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