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Posted: Thursday, June 18, 2009 12:46 pm
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Do not panic.
Do prepare and be thinking about how your family and business might deal with a seriously threatening local H1N1 flu outbreak.
It’s not here yet, thank goodness. It might not come.
Within the past few days, the H1N1 was classified officially as a pandemic, the first in more than four decades.
Think it through. Maybe form a committee at work. People feel much better if there is a plan.
Think about work priorities and how those would be met 60 percent of an office’s workforce were out to treat themselves or their children.
Could employees set up home offices? Could computers move between work and home? Could employees who were working from home establish e-mail and telephone networks with their colleagues in the workplace?
The number of people contracting the flu and people dying from the flu is low at this point. Public health officials internationally are warning that the flu might change into something much more deadly.
Can each family member be armed with a small bottle of hand sanitizer at all times? Will each family member know not to share things like pencils and pens? Will each family member know to regard every surface as potentially crawling with ickies? It makes sense to keep a little extra food.
Does everyone understand that in the case of a serious outbreak, the medical community will be extremely busy?
Don’t panic. Prepare.
St. Peter Herald editorials represent the opinion of Publisher/Editor Ed Lee.
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