Government avian flu preparation is really impressive so far, but there's now a question in my mind whether devoting the large amounts of government planning resource to bird flu may have been - what we called in business school -"the hidden variable" behind the federal government's apparently slow response to the late August 2005 Katrina disaster in New Orleans. If it was, we may never know for sure, because telling the American people (and especially those in Louisiana) words to the effect that "we're working a bigger problem" would not have been politically acceptable at the time - and it likely not today. Nevertheless, there's a chance that's what was going on.
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