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How’s the ‘National Emergency’ Going?

So now that we’re three or four days into a national emergency, I can’t help but wonder how it’s going. So far, I’m not noticing anything different. I’ve been going to work, watching television, surfing the web, and generally behaving normally. How about you?

The way people—including those in the government, media, and medical professions—have gone on about this H1N1 flu, you would think we were facing a calamity of epic proportions. So far I’m not seeing any actual evidence of society breaking down. From my perspective it’s a pretty inconsequential ‘pandemic’ and a pretty silly ‘national emergency,’ especially considering we deal with the seasonal flu—which is deadlier and more virulent than ‘swine flu’—every single year.

Whatever happened to SARS? Or West Nile Virus? Are they still around? They got this much media attention when they were new, but I don’t remember them being national emergencies. At least those were novel and different diseases. This one is just the flu.

Seriously . . . chill out.

Scott Bradford has been putting his opinions on his website since 1995—before most people knew what a website was. He has been a professional web developer in the public- and private-sector for over twenty years. He is an independent constitutional conservative who believes in human rights and limited government, and a Catholic Christian whose beliefs are summarized in the Nicene Creed. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Public Administration from George Mason University. He loves Pink Floyd and can play the bass guitar . . . sort-of. He’s a husband, pet lover, amateur radio operator, and classic AMC/Jeep enthusiast.