{"id":1916,"date":"2006-03-14T21:35:06","date_gmt":"2006-03-15T02:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2006\/03\/enlarging_the_emergency_surviv\/"},"modified":"2006-03-14T21:35:06","modified_gmt":"2006-03-15T02:35:06","slug":"enlarging_the_emergency_surviv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2006\/03\/enlarging_the_emergency_surviv\/","title":{"rendered":"Enlarging The Emergency Survival Kit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"U.S. Govt. Bird Flu Advice: Stockpile Tuna, Milk\" href=\"http:\/\/cbs5.com\/topstories\/local_story_073011212.html\">Move over<\/a>, duct tape and plastic wrap:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt is offering a rather specific warning about how to prepare for the disease [bird flu]. He urges Americans to buy extra cans of tuna and powdered milk and stash them under the bed to get ready.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s not the first thing you might think of to protect yourself against a potential pandemic.<br \/>\n&#8220;Let me acknowledge that no one in the world is prepared for a pandemic,&#8221; Leavitt said this weekend at a conference in Wyoming. &#8220;When you go to the store and buy three cans of tuna fish, buy a fourth and put it under the bed. When you go to the store to buy some milk, pick up a box of powdered milk. Put it under the bed. When you do that for a period of four to six months, you are going to have a couple of weeks of food, and that&#8217;s what we&#8217;re talking about.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Does tuna have special anti-flu properties?  Just wondering.  I&#8217;m not a tuna eater, and if it&#8217;s just a matter of having something on hand to eat, I could go for canned something else.<br \/>\nAs funny as this story seems, it&#8217;s worth noting that at least on the surface,  Leavitt seems like one of the more reasonable voices in this administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2006\/03\/enlarging_the_emergency_surviv\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Enlarging The Emergency Survival Kit\"><p>Move over, duct tape and plastic wrap: Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt is offering a rather specific warning about how to prepare for the disease [bird flu]. He urges Americans to buy extra cans of tuna and powdered milk and stash them under the bed to get ready. It&#8217;s not the first thing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1916","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}