I say that because as far as I can tell everything wrong with the world is a result of Israeli intransigence.

This is far from true. We have known for several days now that this was not as severe as they had first thought.

The comparisons between this flu (any flu) and the 9/11 deaths are ludicrous. First, those were deliberate acts of violence against our people. Second, there are precautions that can be taken to avoid getting the flu. They should be taken, but precautions are different than panic.

We should not be made to panic over something that supposedly can become a “pandemic” but hasn’t shown any indication that it will.

And as for the “low” numbers in the 9/11 attacks:
1. 3000 is still more than 7
2. Those are attacks. Someone chose to kill us in anger. The flu is an indiscriminate force of nature. Or maybe you get just as mad at God for rain as your neighbor spraying you with the garden hose?

First, a pandemic can turn into a national catastrophe very, very quickly (especially when there’s lots of undetected cases). The CDC needs to be on a hair trigger with this, and sometimes what looks like a false alarm is a real deal that was quickly contained. There’s the “boy who cried wolf” effect, but I think that’s better than letting a threat get through. Disease spreads exponentially– the difference between dozens of cases and thousands is only a couple iterations.

Second, fizzles (as this one seems to be) are an important prep for a biological warfare terrorist attack. A desperately needed wakeup call– the Obama administration proved to be woefully unprepared for it. As bad as some terrorist strike scenarios are, biowarfare is the worst of all– even worse than a nuclear attack. And it’s alot easier to develop and execute a bio capability than a nuclear one.

See former Senator Sam Nunn’s Dark Winter exercise. He was pushing on terrorist issues for years before 9/11. Dark Winter simulated a small-pox attack executed by having low-tech terrorists put the disease in mayonnaise jars and throwing them into subway tunnels. After 30 simulated days, the simulation ended with 10 million dead, thirty million more infected, and the disease still spreading uncontrollably. I read through the assumptions and mechanisms of the simulation, and they don’t see at all far-fetched.

Al Qaeda was known to have been working on a biological capability when President Bush invaded Afghanistan. We have no idea if they’ve been able to re-create it.

That is indeed true so far in the United States. These monsters, however, have already murdered millions throughout the rest of the world. Our Islamic nihilistic foes also wish to dramatically increase those numbers within our own country—and will do so if we refuse to fight them to the death.