Comments on: Report cites confusion in state plans for pandemic influenza http://www.hlswatch.com/2006/08/30/report-cites-confusion-in-state-plans-for-pandemic-influenza/ News and analysis of critical issues in homeland security today. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:34:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Brian http://www.hlswatch.com/2006/08/30/report-cites-confusion-in-state-plans-for-pandemic-influenza/#comment-14377 Brian Thu, 31 Aug 2006 18:14:13 +0000 http://www.hlswatch.com/2006/08/30/report-cites-confusion-in-state-plans-for-pandemic-influenza/#comment-14377 This is where experts in single track areas miss the larger scope of homeland security. Each of the states is sovereign, which means they are not controlled by a single bureaucracy, as is in the Peoples Republic of China (and we know too well how PRC protects its citizens). I wonder if the RTII has given much thought about the constitutional issues. How are you going to deal with a son or daughter that is confined to a quarantined area when their parent is dying in an uninfected region? There are enormous questions of which little effort and thought has been given to. We need to have a citizen discussion before we let the academics and bureaucrats strip away our freedom. One other point that should be made when criticizing the States: three quarters of the States had some type of plan before DHS and USG. How do you coordinate standards when the central bureaucracy fails to get a plan together? This is where experts in single track areas miss the larger scope of homeland security. Each of the states is sovereign, which means they are not controlled by a single bureaucracy, as is in the Peoples Republic of China (and we know too well how PRC protects its citizens).

I wonder if the RTII has given much thought about the constitutional issues. How are you going to deal with a son or daughter that is confined to a quarantined area when their parent is dying in an uninfected region? There are enormous questions of which little effort and thought has been given to. We need to have a citizen discussion before we let the academics and bureaucrats strip away our freedom.

One other point that should be made when criticizing the States: three quarters of the States had some type of plan before DHS and USG. How do you coordinate standards when the central bureaucracy fails to get a plan together?

]]> By: Andrew Brodie http://www.hlswatch.com/2006/08/30/report-cites-confusion-in-state-plans-for-pandemic-influenza/#comment-14293 Andrew Brodie Wed, 30 Aug 2006 14:16:27 +0000 http://www.hlswatch.com/2006/08/30/report-cites-confusion-in-state-plans-for-pandemic-influenza/#comment-14293 Singapore and Toronto, Canada are nanny states where the population is conditioned to respond to expensive government advertising campaigns to achieve centrally planned social goals. In Canada, most provinces provide flu vaccine free as part of their socialized medicine packages. What might work in an American model is for employers to provide flu vaccinations free as an economic alternative to losing the service of absent, ill workers. Singapore and Toronto, Canada are nanny states where the population is conditioned to respond to expensive government advertising campaigns to achieve centrally planned social goals.

In Canada, most provinces provide flu vaccine free as part of their socialized medicine packages. What might work in an American model is for employers to provide flu vaccinations free as an economic alternative to losing the service of absent, ill workers.

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