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In 2007, as the world worried about a possible avian flu epidemic, Laurie Garrett, author of "The Coming Plague," gave this powerful talk to a small TED University audience. Her insights from past pandemics are suddenly more relevant than ever. for your brain....

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  • Date 5/5/2009 10:10:10 AM
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Sir spanks-a-lot : LVL 40: VP 4.8: said:

Sir spanks-a-lot

0 votes NegativePositive

208 days 2 hours ago...

be prepared...

saltesc : LVL 35: VP 4.3: said:

saltesc

1 votes NegativePositive

207 days 17 hours ago...

She scares me :(

I don`t know if I should be or not though. I`m probably supposed to take heed of her words, but the general media has taught me to laugh off any information presented to me with fear tactics. Like, I see this whole speech as total bullshit without even thinking about it, but I know that logically it probably isn`t...

I`m gonna wait and see what you guys think...

5/5

Venomousvole : LVL 37: VP 4.5: said:

Venomousvole

0 votes NegativePositive

207 days 10 hours ago...

NO. If you shut the airports down it becomes EASIER to move stuff around, because only those critical shipments are allowed to fly. You will have airports full of pissed off people in close proximity, but with potentially global pathogen on the loose.. Fuck `em. Of course these problems are easier if you don`t rely 100% on an industry on the other side of the world.

tamiflu? a massive pharmaceutical company sells a product that is bad for people? "surely not"

She said the magic "I" word, did you notice?

(I tried ringing the swine-flu helpline today, but there was too much crackling on the line. worrying because I have strange rasher.)

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