Wednesday, November 02, 2005

Hillary swings at a slow ball over the plate

President Bush announced a plan to combat a possible pandemic. Specifically Bird Flu.

U.S. Democratic Sen. Hillary Clinton noted that the United States has struggled to cope with the annual influenza outbreaks. "Since 2000, we have experienced three shortages of seasonal influenza vaccine," she said in a statement.

"While it is welcome news that the administration is focused on vaccine research and stockpiling in the event of a pandemic flu, the question is how will the administration handle distribution and communications with a system that has failed to meet seasonal flu vaccine demands in three out of the last five years?"

I'm not a fan of Hillary, but you have to admit this was a shot which was just waiting to be taken. And justifiably so. I can't imagine the media whipped chaos we'd face if a serious killer bug got loose in our population. I CAN imagine the government doing another Katrina FEMA chicken dance.

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