Donuel - Your post goes off in a few different directions, so I'm wondering what to say about it...?

Let's say that a deadly epidemic is started, as you suggest, in North America. How far would it spread and how fast? Would it not quite likely spread through air travel right across to Europe, Africa, Asia, etc...right round the world?

How do you suggest a person should respond to such an event...or to the possibility of such an event?

I'm not inclined to panic, because I don't see what good it would do.

Besides, ordinary life is burdensome enough at times, without panicking about things that haven't happened yet and may not happen.

But, anyway, what specific courses of action are you recommending to people?

- LH

p.s. Like you, I "endure" my relatives. :-) I wonder if Bin Laden has used the term "endure" with regard to Bush? Probably not, I suspect...not dramatic enough.