During his press conference today, the president suggested using the military in case of a large avian flu outbreak in the U.S. http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/10/04/bush.avianflu/ What if the flu hit before an election? Would/could the president declare martial law and cancel the election and remain in power? What if part of a state had the flu? Would the whole state be quarantined? How would the military restrict movement within an area? Would FEMA be involved?
Sen. Kent Conrad (ND-D) was on the Ed Schultz show http://www.wegoted.com today. The senator said that the avian flu 'plan' has been sitting at the White House for the past year and nothing, to his knowledge, has been done to it. I am sure that we all hope that if the avian flu hits, our nation's response will be better than its Hurricane Katrina response.
