Good afternoon, Netizens...

With the news still hovering in the air like a giant diseased bat about to land in your hair, the World Health Organization this afternoon raised the alert level for the so-called Swine Flu Virus to 5, one stop short of declaring a full-blown pandemic.

While they have asked if people are concerned over in Huckleberries Online, the unspoken question, one that truly bothers me more than that is, how many people are prepared for a world-wide pandemic?

We potentially are talking about wholesale government shutdowns, major shopping centers closed or at least heavily-restricted.The fallout from a pandemic could be much worse than perhaps anyone now recognizes.

At very least we may be forced to wear those tawdry face masks such as they have donned in Mexico.

Always in the spirit of irreverence, do you think it would be too much to ask for designer facial masks if a pandemic does occur?

Dave

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