The Pandemic vs. the IT Department

ElsaBorzoi wrote to mention a Network World article suggesting some pandemic preparations for your IT department. From the article: "A survey last month of 300 Minnesota business officials found most thought a flu pandemic would significantly affect their business, but only 18% had preparedness plans in place. The poll sponsored by the University of Minnesota Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy found that close to two thirds said they were already prepared or somewhat prepared to move employees to remote locations or let them work at home, while 29% said they were not prepared. The H5N1 influenza virus, which originated in Asia, could hit the U.S. this fall, potentially causing an epidemic, the nation's chief avian flu coordinator warned."

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Bomb Shelters

[arrrrg]

And how many IT departments have nuclear bomb shelters, for when we the "the long war" produces an enemy pissed off enough to attack us? Or their own oil reserves and climate control systems, for when global warming makes the earth as we know it uninhabitable? Or for that matter, a God-shelter for when Jesus comes back and the Rapture happens? What about the fire and brimstone?????

Re:Winged Monkeys And Tap Dancing Midgets

[NumerusSpy]

Also, sequencing data has shown that the H5N1 to be a lot more like the 1918 bug than scientists seem to be comfortable with,

This is in no way related to the fact that US war scientists have recently been involved in digging up bodies of those that died of the 1918 flu in an effort to reconstruct the original 1918 virus.

I am ready to be modded troll for pointing out a fact