He was to spend the last 18 years of his life in the care of the Veterans’ Affairs during which time his estate was mismanaged and his monies did not accrue interest. He has become somewhat of a poster boy in the media campaign in this lawsuit against the government.
Perhaps that’s where this writer gets his feistiness, being the son of such a soldier.
PANIC IN THE PANDEMIC DEPT.
Dr Michael Osterholm, author and leading infectious disease and bioterrorism expert, warns that an influenza breakout could, apart from draining the global economy, trigger universal panic. “Pandemic influenza has the ability literally bring this world to a halt,” Osterholm said Wednesday. Osterholm emphasizes that any pandemic must be viewed as a global threat, not a regional one, thus treatment and vaccinations must be made available globally. While Canada is well prepared in its own environment for an outbreak, Osterholm believes that we cannot isolate ourselves from the world-wide fallout of a devastated economy. Canada’s health minister has proposed an international conference to address this issue.
It seems our days of isolationism are coming to a close. More and more we will have to behave as though we are all neighbours in the same block and abiding by similar principles of conduct. And given our current state of juvenile behaviour and worship of emptyheadedness and suicide aficionados, and our inclination to mob frenzies, panic would seem to be the inevitable reaction to even a hint of a pandemic.
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