I'm no fearmonger but.........

I'm an optimist. If you have read this blog very long, I don't suffer fools well, I am often angry with opportunists and I am optimistic to a fault.

I support Bush, I think the War in Iraq is for good, There is no Oil Shortage, Katrina will not affect our economy negatively, all in all I'm an optimist.

So, it is a departure for me to bring to light an impending catastrophe that if people really knew the truth would terrify them like "War of the Worlds", and that was just a radio show.

For the last few years there has been a wholesale slaughter of fowl in an effort to contain or prevent avian flu. This effort as noble as it has been is beginning to fail.

There have been a few mentions of this in the Mainstream Media. A few. The problem is, it's not newsworthy, there's no one is to blame for this. You can't blame Bush, liberals, conservatives, communists, fascists. No one can protect you, not your doctor, government, politician or priest. There is no vaccination, cure, or remedy if (when) it takes off.

At this moment it (the bird flu strain) is mutating into the human population so that it will spread person to person. It hasn't happened yet.

Since it's an unmutated virus there is no base genetics from which to create a vaccine. The vaccine's that are available and proposed to be preventative are panaceas, a sugar pill placebo will do about as much. And when it makes the leap it will move so fast it will be too late to create and incubate enough vaccine to do any good before the pandemic does it's dirty work.

This is bullet we as humans cannot dodge.

The prospect is dire. WHO (World Health Organization) has made quiet little published predictions of the outcome. Globally a half billion to a billion dead. North America 30-40 million gone. True decimation. And, there's NOTHING we can do about it.

You can do something for yourself and your loved ones:

1. Hug your family, keep short accounts, get over it, they might not be here soon.

2. Stay healthy as best you can. Don't lean into the punch. Take your vitamins. A healthy body is more resistant to virus.

3. Avoid being angry, anger weakens the body's immune system.

4. Avoid being bitter about the situation as it evolves, bitterness will weaken your immune system.

5. Avoid crowds if you can. I'm not going to give up going to the opera, Theater (Shakespeare) or Church. But be careful.

6. Get right with God. If you or one of your loved ones should change worlds as a result of this, as they step from time into eternity be sure they know where they are going.

HMMM, number 6 doesn't seem like a bad option.

Evenso come Lord Jesus.