News of Bird Flu in England mades it very likely that the epidemic is now unstoppable.
And most of the blame goes to THE GLOBAL ECONOMY!
Like with the "opening of the west" after the Crusades of the middle ages;...the road for new pathogens, that may have been contained in small "clusters" in backward parts of the world, is now dangerously re-open...
I would blame this most recent pandemic on the GREED OF INTERNATIONAL CAPITAL to mix and match ever cheaper labor with ever more mobile capital in International Trade...and alas, now it's causing a catastrophe unlike anything since the GREAT WAR of 1914 caused the 1918-1919 Great Dying!
The human race is too fragile too "live globally." There simply must be limits on the intermingling of goods and populations...We are not SUPER-HUMAN. And especially not now with greed the only motivating force in our "free trade" based world economy.
If Dubya & Co want to "salvage" their remaining time in office...I would hope that they would look to public health issues and national health care as their last best hope for a now failing presidency...
