HHS Secretary and BF

This is from tomorrow's edition of The Hill (a Capitol Hill newspaper). Leavett is upping the ante in terms of talking about BF. Here's the link:

http://www.thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage /020106/ss_leavitt.html

Libbyalex, Thank you for the link to Mike Leavitt.  Not one word about personal preperation just lot's of talk about local and state responsibility yet I'm not hearing anything about local and state telling anyone that they must prepare for possible disruption in all services. God help us! The C-Span hearing seemed to be focused on stockpiling Tamiflu (which is not even going to be used for the general public) and again not a word about how to help the local state and counties to help get their individual people prepared. Why, I wonder would our government want our society to fall again(hurricanes)into utter helpless chaos. Can't they hear the cry of children without food or feel the agongy of a parent unable to get their babies something to eat or drink or the pitiful sad groans of our elderly left to fend for themselves and completly unable to do so. 

It apparently iis going to take us six weeks according to CDC to get test results back from the single testing lab in Georgia.  As we all know here this flu is going to sweep this nation and world  before it can even be verified that it has arrived.  What can we do besides to prepare ourselves presonally?  My husband wrote to our govenor (Jeb) asking him to break rank with this current mindset of "Don't worry, Be Happy - Our economy is strong, your jobs are secure - keep going to the mall", and help get the people of Florida prepared and informed. The govenment of Minnasota was told  by Mike Leavitt of HHS that they were "tragically mistaken if they thought the federal government would be there for them" this surely apply to all states alike.www.echopress.com/article.cfm?Article_ID=36744 .

I'm going to write to my congresswoman (Corrine Brown) today about this matter, she does  not seem afraid to stand up and shout for the people. It will only take one voice to start spreading this news - maybe  we can  find that one voice .

God bless to all of you on this site, we've been following for awhile and refer to all of you as "our new friends". 

 

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I agree, Meewee!   My sister moved to Las Vegas about three months ago and when I asked her if she has heard if the city was making any preparations for bird flu.  She said "no, i've never heard a single person mention one word about it". The lack of preparation scares me because she is alone out there---the rest of the family lives on the East Coast and in the Midwest---- and I am so scared that she will have no one to help her if there is a pandemic. I am quite certain that the city of LasVegas won't be able to provide help to their citizens if they dont' start planning for a pandemic quickly!
I am hoping to convince her about the importance of planning-- I spoke with her last night and asked her to come to this forum just to read what others have posted. Hopefully, that will inspire her to start making preparations!!