<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/9628ad34-581b-4639-8d32-73bbfce5a2cf/1077A416-2B3E-4F95-AAA5-7A2EF68262DC/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://bleaknews.wordpress.com/2009/08/25/pcast-h1n1-an-improbable-scenario-requiring-more-stringent-non-medical-measures/" href="http://bleaknews.wordpress.com/2009/08/25/pcast-h1n1-an-improbable-scenario-requiring-more-stringent-non-medical-measures/" style="font-size: 11px;">bleaknews.wordpress.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bleaknews.wordpress.com/2009/08/25/pcast-h1n1-an-improbable-scenario-requiring-more-stringent-non-medical-measures/"><P><A href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/asset.aspx?AssetId=2544">An Improbable Scenario Requiring More Stringent Non-Medical Measures (pg. 44)</A></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bleaknews.wordpress.com/2009/08/25/pcast-h1n1-an-improbable-scenario-requiring-more-stringent-non-medical-measures/">The 1918–19 pandemic was characterized by a relatively mild first wave of illness in spring 1918, followed by much more severe second and third waves. This pattern could conceivably be repeated with the 2009-H1N1 virus</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bleaknews.wordpress.com/2009/08/25/pcast-h1n1-an-improbable-scenario-requiring-more-stringent-non-medical-measures/">If it should occur, the Federal Government would be confronted with a national crisis and the prospect of hundreds of thousands of deaths, millions of hospitalizations, and a dramatic impact on the functioning of communities due to school closure, workplace absenteeism, and fear-driven changes in people’s behavior.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bleaknews.wordpress.com/2009/08/25/pcast-h1n1-an-improbable-scenario-requiring-more-stringent-non-medical-measures/">Federal, state, and local authorities may take unilateral action such as border closure, seizure of essential commodities, or curtailment of individual freedoms, out of fear or as a result of public pressure.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bleaknews.wordpress.com/2009/08/25/pcast-h1n1-an-improbable-scenario-requiring-more-stringent-non-medical-measures/">the National Response Framework and associated documents are the result of that work.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bleaknews.wordpress.com/2009/08/25/pcast-h1n1-an-improbable-scenario-requiring-more-stringent-non-medical-measures/"> it is essential that the Administration examine these systems of coordination</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/1077A416-2B3E-4F95-AAA5-7A2EF68262DC/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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