What will Bush do when Bird Flu hits the US?

[FormerRepublican]

Poll question: What will Bush do when Bird Flu hits the US?

Edit to fix choice 3. OK, I had to edit a lot to figure out how to fix it - duh!

[EarlG]

1. He'll say

"Nobody could have anticipated the arrival of the bird flu."

[hippiechick]

3. I vote for this one!

:applause:

[datadiva]

2. He'll pretend he didn't know about it

because he was on vacation as usual.

[Swamp Rat]

4. As I said in your last poll, he'll go back to his home world

[PatrioticLeftie]

5. Raise terror threat level

"Terrorist poultry have intercepted our borders. The British Government has learned that these birds recently sought significant quantities of their kin from KFC."

[FSogol]

6. The usual, you know, play a little guitar, eat some cake... n/t

[FSogol]

7. "No one could have predicted that the influenza would strike our shores."

:eyes: :eyes:

[Betsy Ross]

8. Good thing no livestock on Crawford ranch. n/t

[Squeech]

9. Nobody could have predicted

that the chicken would cross the road.

Meanwhile, doesn't Rummy control the company that makes the antiviral drug? It's a win/win!

[Beelzebud]

10. Read The Stand by Stephen King.

I think you'll see a pretty good idea of how our "leaders" would handle such a situation.

[gkhouston]

11. they'll try to minimize it at first

the amount of bird deaths and infections will be underreported and basically nothing effective or useful will happen if the Bush administration is controlling the response. I worry a lot about the poor -- not just the ones who work at the poultry plants or in the towns that depend on them, but the poor in general. The price of poultry will go way up, if it's available at all, which means that other forms of protein will also become more expensive. If that eventually drives up even the cost of beans to where the poorest can't afford them, then what?

And that's only problems related to extant strains of H5N1... with a human-to-human strain added to the mix, the potential for BushCo to screw up is exponentially higher.

[wtbymark]

12. Sure would give him an excuse to impose some type of Martial

Law

[geniph]

13. I don't think the ruling class will worry too much

Insofar as I am aware, reptiles cannot contract the avian flu.

[TommyO]

14. He'll be hunkered down at his ranch

clearing some brush, practicing his guitar skills, and sharing a drink with Cheney.

[TahitiNut]

15. What he's been planning all along: He'll pardon all the turkeys ....

... and give valor awards to all the chickens. :evilgrin:

[shaniqua6392]

16. He will run around in circles screaming.....

"The sky is falling, the sky is falling!!!!"