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To: Proud Deplorable who wrote (199374)	4/30/2009 10:27:06 PM
From: Think4Yourself	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 306849

I think Slider has gone off the deep end. Tamiflu is commonly available and it is generally taken orally, not by a shot. I have hundreds of pills stashed that were bought by prescription. There is also a serious discrepancy in that story. It is dated February but they want families home by September? The government's stocks are also not intended for the general public. They were procured for a very specific purpose, which is to protect the law enforcement officials, medical staff, critical utility workers, etc, that would almost certainly come in contact with infected people. The stocks are to ensure society can function at a minimal level during a pandemic until a vaccine can be developed. Citizens would be expected to stay home during this time, so they do not become infected. This story looks like something we'll be seeing on Snopes.com soon.

To: Proud Deplorable who wrote (199374)	4/30/2009 11:14:44 PM
From: ezspkns	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

It was in response to the bird flu late last year / early this year... ************************* Panasonic to fly home workers' families over bird flu fears Tuesday, February 10 07:05 am Panasonic Corp. has ordered Japanese employees in some foreign countries to send their families home to Japan in preparation for a possible bird flu pandemic, a spokesman said Tuesday. Family members of Japanese employees in parts of Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Russia, former Soviet states and Latin America will fly back to Japan by the end of September, Panasonic spokesman Akira Kadota said. The firm decided to take the rare measure "well ahead of possible confusion at the outbreak of a global pandemic," he said. Eight people have contracted the H5N1 bird flu virus in China alone this year -- five of whom died. "The bird flu cases reported so far are infections from bird to human, but once an infection between human beings is reported, things can get chaotic with many other companies trying to bring back their employees," Kadota said. "We wanted to take action early before it gets difficult to book flight tickets," he said. ... debatepolitics.com