A Janet favorite

I have this sick  fascination with the whole H5N1 topic.  (Sorry, but I just couldn't resist.)  I usually get my daily fix on Effectmeasure .   The science is cool, but the best, most disurbing part is how ill-prepared the U.S. is to combat a pandemic. Today's blog features a lovely story out of  Colorado where health officials reassure everyone, with an emergency preparedness drill, that they are ready for an avian flu outbreak (or earthquake or terrorist attack. Except,  as the site points out, they left out one tiny little detail: The medicine that they practiced delivering from the Strategic National Stockpile, like, uh, doesn't exist. And likely won't. Won't it be so fun to watch which 1% of the American population gets the Tamiflu that might not even work? Maybe they could make it an version of TV's "Survivor!"