Running the Numbers on a US Pandemic 257
Lucas123 writes "A U.S. pandemic would exhaust antiviral medications, reduce basic food supplies, put ATMs out of service, shut down call centers, increase gas prices and up health insurance claims by 20%, according a test project developed by financial service firms. The pandemic paper planning scenario is used by 3,000 banks, insurance companies and security firms in preparing for disasters. The financial services groups are now sharing the pandemic flu exercise information, and all the scenarios are available for download."
This report is open sores (Score:4, Funny)
Just make sure you print your own copy out, the last guy who wanted to give it you didn't wash his hands.
Well... (Score:4, Funny)
Now what?
Re:What are you going to do??? (Score:5, Funny)
Fearsome. (Score:1, Funny)
What of real ones? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:What are you going to do??? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:What are you going to do??? (Score:2, Funny)
What are you going to do when the zombies show up at your door? :-)
I can think of only one thing. [penny-arcade.com]
Re:Help please - best masks (Score:3, Funny)
yfluk (Score:3, Funny)
Re:What are you going to do??? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:What are you going to do??? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:What are you going to do??? (Score:5, Funny)
Tell them no thanks; I've read their pamphlets and I wasn't impressed.
I lucked out of the pandemic (Score:2, Funny)
The other funny part was that the random number generator used to assign certain death didn't seem to be very random... nearly everyone on the list was from the first half of the alphabet. So, in order to further reduce any impact in a real pandemic we decided to try and hire so that first letters of employees last names have a low correlation to job roles.