Saturday, October 15, 2005

The Good News

The Iraq referendum went off well.
The Katrina cleanup is going well.

Looks like Americans can do some things right after all. Let's keep working.

On the other hand, preparations for the flu season are progressing slowly, and consist mostly of stockpiling vaccine that scientists feel will be ineffective against Avian Flu.
May I respectfully remind the administration that, of all the disasters we've seen so far in the Bush presidency, the flu pandemic stands alone in that it is just as likely to hit the Washington powerbrokers as it is to hit the urban poor, and that, being of advancing age, the members of Congress, the White House senior staff, and the justices of the Supreme Court are all at high risk of contracting, and dying from, Avian Flu?

2 comments:

Zan said...

Good point! hmmmmm....

meduza said...

I'm glad someone is paying attention to that...frankly the lack of emphasis on this is quite frightening...