Author Topic: Panasonic is flying home employees -- before Global Pandemic! (Read 686 times)

sedetrad · « **Reply #1 on:** February 10, 2009, 12:55:17 PM »

The idea of a man made super disease being unleashed scares me more than a nuke being dropped.

Elizabeth · « **Reply #2 on:** February 10, 2009, 12:55:40 PM »

How can we even know if this is true, and not fear-mongering?

Matthew · « **Reply #3 on:** February 10, 2009, 12:57:10 PM »

Quote from: sedetrad

The idea of a man made super disease being unleashed scares me more than a nuke being dropped.

I agree.

Nukes don't spread to every nook and cranny of civilization. They only affect the city they are dropped on, and a few dozen miles in any direction (there's fallout, etc.)

Fallout you can easily defend against, by building a door-covered trench shelter in your backyard (2 strong men could dig one in 36 hours).

For some reason, nukes don't scare me as much as pestilence and famine.

Matthew

Matthew · « **Reply #4 on:** February 10, 2009, 12:59:06 PM »

Quote from: Elizabeth

How can we even know if this is true, and not fear-mongering?

As always, the answer is "we can't know for sure".

But we can prepare.

Survivalists have a saying -- "better a year early than a day late". And how true is that saying!

Your extra medical supplies, canned goods, water, etc. can sit there a few months or years -- but you can't buy them ONE DAY LATE because they won't be there for the having -- everyone will want them then. Demand will overwhelm our fragile supply lines.

Matthew

Catholic Samurai · « **Reply #5 on:** February 11, 2009, 11:49:42 AM »

I heard on the radio that an Indonisian village got wiped out by what they think is bird-flu. Aproximatly 150 people died.

I dont think the bird-flu that has been going around is such a threat, since it's only in rare cases that it has infected humans, but whose to say that the gov. hasent gotten a hold of it and made a super strain of the virus and is testing it on natives in 3rd world countries?

Matthew · « **Reply #6 on:** February 11, 2009, 12:27:57 PM »

Indonesia just got hit by a 7.0 quake.