Bird Flu Pandemic?

Anyone who reads the news can clearly see that the "authorities" seem to concerned about the Bird Flu hitting the human population like an A-Bomb. They seem so certain that this will happen, "not IF, but WHEN", that they are calling for each family to store food and supplies ahead of time. "Under the bed" has been a popular place they ask us to put our cans of tuna and powered milk.
I'm thinking NOT. They probably haven't seen under my bed. There are a lot more sanitary and convenient places to put our supplies. How about on some shelves...like above the laundry machines or in closets. I suggest taking out all those old vitamins and other health bottles long expired and store all your medical preps there. In the kitchen, remove the long ago used bread machine and the huge mixer and food processor that hasn't had any food in them for a year and put those away in the garage or basement. Put your extra bulk food stuffs there. That way if the Bird Flu delays in coming or doesn't come at all, you can use these items. Rotation is a must.

Now, if you live in a very small apartment in an over-crowded city...don't forget that you would be more suseptible to getting the bird flu in the first place...and make a plan. Do you really want to stay in that apartment in the germy city? Perhaps an escape plan would suffice. Store your things at the pre-arraranged sancuary, in order to be of service to your hosts...if they didn't prepare.

Bird Flu? Nuclear War? Natural Disasters like Massive Earthquakes, Tidal Waves, Comet or Meteor Impact, Regular Flu? Hostile Takeovers, Terrorist attack? We could never predict what could happen with any accuracy...but when the normally placid "move along, move along, nothing to see here" government starts squawking, "The sky is falling, the sky is falling!", I'd tend to want to look up, just in case. Have you noticed the increase in shows, commentary and instructions on the news & in the papers about how to prepare?

Besides, these supplies could come in handy for an economic disaster. You get laid off for months and instead of using the credit card for food, you can have a lot of tuna sandwiches and reconstituted powered dry milk. Yumm, yum? Well, okay, maybe not. But it would taste good when you really need it.

I'm sure Terri Shiavo would have loved to have a tuna sandwich and a glass of milk.

Okay, I'm gonna stop there...

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