Just recently, we've witnessed our government's haphazard
response to the haze: they fumbled, were slow to react, and
obviously hadn't thought through contingency plans. When questioned
by the people, they were slow to respond; when they finally took
action, it was too little too late.
Now here comes the scary part: this was just for a haze, a haze
which we have experienced every year over the last decade- and
we've all seen for ourselves how ineffective they were in dealing
with it, and how their first instinct wasn't to protect the
people.
It makes me wonder then- how prepared are we actually against
more fatal threats such as new strains of viruses or even
biological terrorism? What assurance do we have that our government
knows how to react if there was a serious outbreak? Will they reach
out and protect the people? Can they do so with the required
knowledge and effectiveness? Will they spend what's necessary to
develop the right vaccination? Or will they simply stand aside and
let the problem get out of hand, just because they want to
'calibrate' their actions and scrimp on spending for public
health?
As a parent of three young children, I am very concerned.
the government took one week to respond to the haze, and if they
took a week to respond to a fatal viral outbreak, many people would
have died by then.
How can we be certain that we are sleeping safe?
