The Saturday Word: Readiness

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/02/the-saturday-word-readiness/

The Saturday Word: Readiness

May 2, 2009, 10:21 am/By Janie Lorber AND Sarah Wheaton

This article is about the swine flu epidemic that is slowly taking over the United States population. It's highly contagious and although it doesn't mention it in the article but two cases of the flu have been reported in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Pres. Obama gives healthy advice, such as washing your hands freguently and informs the public that we have, ".. fully operable influenza readiness plans and are better prepared to deal with such a challenge than ever before.”

This spread of illness seems just like the beginning of a massive outbreak nationwide. The government knows that telling the public that we're not prepared will cause unnessacary panic and hysteria. I personally don't believe that we're prepared, at least not to the point where we're in a position to heal the entire country. Everywhere I look people are sick, coughing, spreading, infecting others around them. We could already be sick and not even know it until the damage is all ready done.