For my regular readers, you are well aware of my morbid fascination with the ongoing viral epidemics raging cross this globe of ours.  In NY, as the city recovers from Sandy, the Stomach Flu is ripping through certain camps set up along the city.  This is to be expected, given the conditions and close living quarters.

*Warning:  Rant ahead*

Here is why I am writing about this: the average person is woefully unprepared to deal with any calamity that pulls them off the id for more than a few days.  If you don’t have power supplied by a power company, you don’t have food readily available, gas to power things (generators, cars for travel) things get really ugly really fast.  That is NOT counting the X-factor types of things like looting mobs, violent riots, etc.  How does this relate?  Well viral infections are all part of that element, and you may not have medicine or experts to apply medicinal knowledge.