It seems that even though the worst is taking place, we are trying to put spin on it. A pandemic is a pandemic. How do you say that it isn’t as bad. Tell that to the ones that experience loss. My thought is that we need to be cautious, and at the same time, we need to be concerned. Cautious for our safety and concerned for all of our friends everywhere overseas.
I am recording this here simply for historicity. We have now lived into and hopefully soon through some of my generation’s first global pandemic.
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WHO Tweaks Pandemic Label to Avoid Swine Flu Panic (Update1) – Bloomberg.com
Swine flu, becoming entrenched in Australia and Chile, will prompt the World Health Organization to declare the first influenza pandemic in 41 years, said three people familiar with the agency’s plans.
Margaret Chan, the WHO’s director-general, will make the announcement sometime in the next 10 days, said the people, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the deliberations are private. The agency, having spent the past five years alerting the world to the dangers of a pandemic, is now looking for a way to declare one without causing panic.