Whoaa! Australia? That was a close call! Could have killed us all. Good
thing we planned for meteor strikes by watching all those movies.
Thanks Marielle.
Mark Janzen
Registrar/Collections Manager
Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art
Martin H. Bush Outdoor Sculpture Collection
Wichita State University
(316)978-5850
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Mark, At my museum we often joke about being MSI (Museum scene
investigators!) Also did you catch that meteor that fell over Australia,
not to mention that earthquake in the Congo!
Marielle
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Norwich University Museum
Northfield, Vermont
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>Roger et al.,
>
>Thanks. Looks like a well constructed site, and useful. Kudos on your
>involvement.
>
>However, since I do not have an alarmist bone in my body(and it is
Monday),
>I feel the need to express my personal reasoned opinion on the issue,
which
>I have been hearing far too much about. No one in particular is the object
>of this particular angst. I believe we should be far more concerned with
>the looming "plandemic" (a word taken from one of the site's interesting
>articles that I wish I had coined) associated with this phenomenon, than
>with the potential of the pandemic itself. A plandemic is a serious,
though
>normally non-fatal affliction contracted quite easily by a wide array of
>institutions in any media obsessed culture. Plandemics are however
>enormously wasteful of time and resources better spent on something
>substantive. Y2K springs to mind.
>
>Essentially in this case: bad science + errant immunology assumptions +
>alarmist media + government support = bird flu plandemic
>
>Although it is possible for some variety of this flu to become commonly
>transferrable to humans and subsequently transmissible between us, there
is
>no certainty that it ever will. Much like the possibility that an airborne
>version of HIV will develop over time. There are thousands of animal
>diseases that do not cross over species lines to which we are exposed
>daily, any one of which might have the same effects. Currently you can
only
>get the "bird flu" from infected birds(and perhaps through mosquitoes),
and
>even then the odds are astronomical, since it is not a virus that normally
>effects humans at all. Even if you catch it, it still can not be
>transmitted from person to person, and it is nowhere near 100% fatal. At
>this point it is hardly an earthshaking problem, and no amount of planning
>on my institution's part is going to do a darned thing to change whether
it
>becomes a bigger one. It also seems odd to me that they are cranking out
>vaccinations for a virus that does not yet exist, i.e. a virus that can be
>transmitted from person to person. Perhaps a vaccination against the one
>that occasional people get directly from birds will be helpful?
>
>My university does have plans for tornadoes, terrorist attack, fires,
>nuclear war, floods, and even earthquakes(in Kansas). There are medication
>distribution plans and centers should something sweep across the nation.
>Hopefully they will not go further off the deep end and develop a new plan
>for every potential yet unrealized threat that crops up in the future.
>Besides, are we done planning for HIV, tuberculosis, heart disease,
cancer,
>and all the other problems that we already have, without adding ones that
>do not yet exist and may never come to pass? Hundreds of thousands die
>every year from those already pandemic diseases.
>
>All that said, it is still technically possible that the bird flu pandemic
>will occur someday. Actually, on a less cheerful note, it is a certainty
>something like it will occur eventually, since the earth is going to get
>really tired of the skin disease that is us. I am glad the CDC and the
>WHO(not the band) are there to shield us from the plaent's righteous
>revenge. I personally prefer to waste my fears on random lightning
strikes,
>dinosaur-killing meteors, and machete-wielding sociopaths. I promise not
to
>complain if I am one of the ones it strikes down. The plandemic I mean.
>
>Please note that the usual caveats of my not being a professional
alarmist,
>viral epidemiologist, or vital statistics analyzer apply, although I would
>be happy to play one on tv. A spot on CSI Las Vegas would rock!
>
>Have a great day all.
>
>Mark Janzen
>Registrar/Collections Manager
>Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art
>Martin H. Bush Outdoor Sculpture Collection
>Wichita State University
>(316)978-5850
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>Greeting to list members,
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>CBS yesterday is quoted as saying " Fewer than 100 people have died
>worldwide, yet the World Health Organization calls the Avian Flu' the
most
>
>serious health threat facing the planet, greater than AIDS or
tuberculosis"
>
>While not wishing to spread either panic nor despondency amongst the list,
>it seemed timely to remind people that I recently published another
"public
>
>good" web site - Global Pandemic News - which can be viewed at
>http://www.pandemic-news.info
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>Our university ( my day job! ) is reasonably well advanced it its plans
to
>
>combat such an pandemic and other list members may also be formulating
>plans?
>
>I built the above site to bring live news feeds 24X7 to anyone with an
>interest in this topic. This is just a timely reminder of the web address
>and its existence. You may want to share it with friends?
>
>Best wishes to all
>
>Roger
>Global Museum
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