Straight from the book, Flu Pandemic and You: A Canadian Guide, by Vincent Lam and Colin Lee, a tip for avoiding the swine flu pandemic is to buy (and ride) a bicycle, among other things.
Get a bicycle (automobiles keep you from interacting closely with people, but there is the potential problem of fuel shortages).
The reasoning being that bicycles help you to maintain your distance from other (possibly infected) people. I like how they suggest an apocalyptic scenario where so many people will fall ill that we will run out of fuel.
Read the whole list in the Globe and Mail article.
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dash (not verified)
they shut down transport hubs
Wed, 04/29/2009 - 14:11It's not about running out of fuel exactly - but shipping hubs get shut down to prevent further spread. We're at phase 4, and the transport hubs get shut down during phase 5 and/or 6. Once that happens, we have only what we've got on hand, which means everyone is on bicycles within a couple weeks.
PedalPowerPat
Sigh @ media manufactured hysteria
Wed, 05/06/2009 - 02:01Does everyone have that short of a memory? Can they not remember the avian flu scare being a hoax?
Some corporate elites want to dump they're billion dollar stocks of tamiflu and they need a eager populace to sell it to.
Even if the above is not true the facts speak for themselves, the "swine flu" or the virus known has h1n1 isn't a threat to humanity (as farm raised pigs kill more people annualy than this stupid flu[not to mention the winter flu is a bigger killer]) and its just another example of the media doing what they do best, making us afraid.
Dont buy into the fear.