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To: NOW who wrote (39046)	10/12/2005 1:41:09 PM
From: CalculatedRisk	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 116555

There is a threat. But the fear is out of proportion to the threat. Check this out: Avian flu fears spur Tamiflu demand news.yahoo.com This reminds me of the run on Cipro during the Anthrax attacks. Fear is a powerful marketing tool.

To: NOW who wrote (39046)	10/12/2005 2:14:30 PM
From: Elroy Jetson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 116555

For the past several years Tony Fauci, the head of NIAID, had been urging President Bush to upgrade the vaccine process and stockpile more Amantadine, Relenza, and Tamiflu than was currently on hand. Bush refused to put any more money into public health since the war in Iraq was already too costly. The President's humiliation over the non-response in New Orleans finally prompted him to spend money on the vaccine program and antiviral drugs. Too bad it may be too little too late. Of course Bush also wants to suspend the Posse Comitatus Act of 1978, which prohibits the military from directing civilian life. What else could we expect? Bush is a dry-drunk whose thinking is as abnormal and deviant as your own, tooearly. I'm sure Bush imagines the military could arrest anyone who criticizes his failed too-late public health policy. I am fairly confident that Bush will have very little success in promulgating this illegal policy. You, tooearly, are on the front lines of those spreading misinformation, urging delay and preaching ignorance. If the H5N1 becomes a pandemic, I have every confidence you will die -- just follow your own advice. Its unfortunate you don't also believe the "law of gravity" is a conspiracy as well. You wouldn't have to wait for a plague, but instead could prove us all wrong by jumping off the top of a tall building without a parachute. Either way, it will be an excellent example of Darwinian natural selection at work. Those who believe in anti-reality concepts will die coughing their lungs out. .