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To: michael97123 who wrote (149757)	10/29/2004 10:53:01 AM
From: GST	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

There is a pandemic coming. It is the bird flu. There is no private sector incentive to provide vaccine because we don't know if it will be this year, or next, etc., and making vaccines is not a highly profitable business and so there is little interest in doing the R&D needed to create new production technology so we can gear up in time once the flu hits. There is a role for government in this type of market failure. What looks like a scattershot to you just might be your own lack of awareness of other issues. When the bird flu hits, millions will die world wide. It won't be a bomb. It won't come in a container ship. And we can't stop it with our warplanes and tanks. Go beyond one-dimensional vision. We live in a complex world and face real dangers and real opportunities.