Sunday, May 06, 2007
Paranoid thought on China, bees, dogs, birds.
Note the title. This is a paranoid thought, not a perfectly logical conclusion!
I'm not confident enough of this to place it in Madame Polisztra's crystal ball, but I think it's worth putting on the record.
Consider: For the last two years, our public health facilities and researchers have been pouring tremendous amounts of energy and resources into preparing for Bird Flu, an epidemic that began in Southeast Asia. It seemed mighty dubious to me from the start, and now it's starting to look dubious to the public health people.
Meanwhile, China sneaks contaminants like melamine into our pet food, poultry food, perhaps bee food, and perhaps human food. Our public health facilities (FDA, CDC, etc) don't quite know what to do about this, and seem to be lost.
"All war is deception." --- Sun Tzu, 500 BC. ¶ 3:09 PM
I'm not confident enough of this to place it in Madame Polisztra's crystal ball, but I think it's worth putting on the record.
Consider: For the last two years, our public health facilities and researchers have been pouring tremendous amounts of energy and resources into preparing for Bird Flu, an epidemic that began in Southeast Asia. It seemed mighty dubious to me from the start, and now it's starting to look dubious to the public health people.
Meanwhile, China sneaks contaminants like melamine into our pet food, poultry food, perhaps bee food, and perhaps human food. Our public health facilities (FDA, CDC, etc) don't quite know what to do about this, and seem to be lost.
"All war is deception." --- Sun Tzu, 500 BC. ¶ 3:09 PM
