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Elizabeth's avatar

Thanks for the unexpected update…appreciate your devotion to the health and safety of the American people. The article from Foreign Affairs is spot on…

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Thank you! It feels like epidemiologists are standing on a chair amidst a crowd of people, yelling at the top of their voices and banging on a drum, but noone seems to notice. Such is the human capacity for denial. How do we convince decision makers, who mostly have no training in health care science, that it would be far better to be proactive rather than reactive to prevent the loss of human lives? Is it possible to create a cost/benefit analysis that would be compelling enough to move them? Or would it be possible to present it directly to the Anerican people, such that we the people would demand that action be taken on both state and federal levels? I wonder how many Americans are at all aware that H5N1 could wipe out their beloved pet cats, to say nothing of the fact that it’s one mutation away from being able to infect us?! What is it about human nature - or the human brain? - that makes us so resistant to acting in our own interests?

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