Glad to Hear from Asia....
Thanks to cheahga and kei_ko for the excellent presentations. I, for one am, going to save them to my HD.
Glad to hear from some folks in East Asia. Here in North America we can be rather overly confident (I might say cocky) about our ability to resist a pandemic. Many people just don't realize how thin our lines of defense really are. The more I read about these kinds of health issues the more I realize the real need for us all to become educated in the basic methods of fighting a flu pandemic. Things like hygene and face masks and quarantine etc.
We have gotten so use to popping a magic pill to fix things that we've forgotten the basics, or maybe just think of them as old fashioned. This has happened even in hospitals where staph infections crop up because of poor sanitary practices by the staff. Well folks it's time to remember what Momma use to say, - "Button up your overcoat", "Stay Warm", "Don't go out without your goloshes", "Wear your Hat", "Cover your mouth when you cough".........etc.
A pandemic, by nature, is going to severely stress our institutions abilities to deal with the numbers of sick people. We already hear of antibiotic resistance, and lack of production capability for vaccines. The biggest and best thing we can do is to not get sick ourselves and do all we can to prevent others from getting sick.
Ben Franklin said, "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."
When our customer first asked about this I thought, "Here is another worthless, make work project." Now that I have looked into it some I realize how critical it is for private industry to be prepared and to get ahead of the game. Not only to protect our business and our customers, but to protect our children, families and communities.
OH my - There I go with my

again.
Basically I wanted to thank cheahga and kei_ko for their input and hope they and others from effected areas will share their insights with us.
James