If an outbreak did occur. If. I believe the word ‘if’ is a conditional as in “If it does” or “If it does not”. It implies that a circumstances can be one or the other. While that is indeed true when one is in control of a situation, it’s a fairly daft stance to take when one is in no control whatsoever and the consequences will be fatal to thousands. To paraphrase: In years to come people will gather and say “Now what did Tony Blair ever do for us ?
Tony Blair – “Bird Flu ? What Bird Flu ?”
Ahhh. Another disaster we can attribute to ‘nature’, the most villified of entities of our times. Most convenient of scapegoats that exonerate the guilty, be it in ‘human’ or systemic form.