Thursday, March 16, 2006

WAMC

Well, the roundtable question today on WAMC was "Are You Prepared for Birdflu."

What a mosh pit of misinformation!

Half the time was spent making jokes about shucking corn.

No one knew any of the percentages even of the current deaths in the world and misstated them. Then when the math showed 50% were currently dying, that was just too much for the WAMC staff of experts, so they went to the arugment that the virus would certainly diminish in strength if it mutated.

One woman liked Israeli alternative medicine suggested grape leaves as an anti viral approach and also mentioned the blackberry extract by which I guess she meant the elderberry extract Sambucol.
http://www.althealth.co.uk/services/news/article.php?id=1856

One woman called to whine that those who live paycheck to paycheck can't stock up on food. Her point was the government would have to come up with a better plan.
No one told her that Michael Leavitt, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, suggested that such people buy one extra can of tuna fish a week and put it under their bed.

One fellow suggested it was all a government conspiracy so that they could impose martial law.

Buying a gun for home protection was a joke.

Luckily one speaker had just experienced a few days without power in his community and shared how astounded he was that all the food in his local store just disappeared off the shelf. This had changed his level of preparedness he said.





Well, I gotta go. I found a great sale on Price Chopper olive oil and Starkist tuna at Price Chopper this week.

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