As an hiv positve man living with a compromised immune system. I live with the posibility that a bad flu, maybe the bird flu, would most likely take me out. But as I watch the bird flu begin it's march across the globe, One mutation away from a true pandemic. I started to think what we might learn about our health care system in it's response to the Crisis.
The first and most important thing I think we will learn is that the U.S. Heath Care System is a system designed for maximum profit and not for maximum benefit of We the People.
I believe we will learn that a Pandemic is a National Security Issue. Maybe even more so then that next AirCraft Carrier. If I'm not mistaken We do rule the Seas.
Will probably learn that all the money we spent on Bio-terrorism. Really wasn't very well spent with tons of sweetheart deals and no-bid contracts.
We will most likely learn that the threads of society and civility are much thinner and fragile then any of us believed.
Or maybe we will come together in a new sense of community and brotherhood and the common crisis will bring the world together in a new era of Peace and Love.
But hey, I'm just a Dreamer.
