GOVERNOR JEB BUSH: YOU CAN'T SUGAR COAT THIS

Better late than never, the governor of the State of Florida has come out and is urging Floridians to prepare for a pandemic. After a meeting with Federal and State Health officials today Bush made the following statements.

Gov. Jeb Bush said the state doesn't have all the hospital beds it would need if a real pandemic were to emerge and had no prospects for changing that. And by its very nature, a pandemic would affect the whole country -- so there'd be no place to send the people that Florida's hospitals couldn't handle.

``There would be no mutual aid, we'd have to take care of this ourselves,'' Bush said.

The problems would be myriad: besides overflowing hospitals, schools would close and many business would be crippled by absenteeism; there might be runs on food, cash, water and other critical items; and the state's economic engine _ tourism _ could be devastated.

``You can't sugarcoat this,'' Bush said.

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Gee, you'd almost think he's been reading my blog.