I don't know what is worse; the onset of a worldwide pandemic or the idiocracy it creates. Below is a video documenting lessons learned from 1918 flu pandemic. I have some personal interest vested in the aformentioned plague as my father's mother was a survivor of the virus's second mutation. She recounted to me first hand all the horrors she had witnessed as the flu ripped through her village and into her home, ultimatey taking the life of her sister before it left as mysteriously as it had come.
I think what is important to recognize about the swine flu is this is definately the making of a worst case scenario. H1N1 is not terribly lethal, at leat not yet. What little we know about flu strains is derived from the havok created when none lethal strains mutate into something deadly. I think that the best way we can prepare ourselves for a lethal outbreak is to work together as a community instead of hording food and water.
