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Old 03-09-2006, 09:37   #8
Sten
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I hope we can discuss several of the assumptions for my own piece of mind.

1. Will bird flu will actually become a pandemic? Until I hear a whole group of egg heads on NPR saying this is going to happen I will have much doubt. The crack pots CNN and other worthless MSM outlets dig up have not convinced me.

2. When Bird flu hits it will shut down of the US for 3 months? I don't buy it. I have a picture of my great grandmother on her wedding day riding in a pony cart as all of the horse carts in Chicago were in use as hearses for the dead of the 1918 pandemic. If people were still getting married during that one I think the trucks will still roll during a modern outbreak.

3. If the country is shut down for 2+months, what will happen to the banking system? I am pretty sure that Country Wide mortgage will still want a mortgage payment from me. What will happen to Wall St? To further dig on Wall Street, what will happen to all the world markets? The 1918 Pandemic did not knock out the world banking system nor put it on holiday.
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