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    Posted: April 01 2006 at 2:28am
This report is not new, nor does it address pandemic alone. If you are a Red Cross Volunteer, or a survivalist in general, then you may have seen it already:
 
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Good article, but anybody who watched TV last hurricane season (and since) should have already known it.
 
Even here in the heart of storm-ravaged south Louisiana, where you'd think "preparedness" was a way of life, it seems hardly on the radar at all - except for those who are still complaining about whatever the govt. didn't do or isn't doing.
 
There are good, well-proven reasons why risk communication often fails - many of these reasons showed up in the article's charts.
 
What DOES work is setting an example. Talk is cheap, but even people who are distracted, in denial, or very complacent, will NOTICE when their peers start to behave differently.
 
Actions really do speak louder than words.
Time's up. It's here. If you're not ready, you should have been - we all were warned.
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Originally posted by Prof.Ferguson Prof.Ferguson wrote:

Good article, but anybody who watched TV last hurricane season (and since) should have already known it.
 
Even here in the heart of storm-ravaged south Louisiana, where you'd think "preparedness" was a way of life, it seems hardly on the radar at all - except for those who are still complaining about whatever the govt. didn't do or isn't doing.
 
There are good, well-proven reasons why risk communication often fails - many of these reasons showed up in the article's charts.
 
What DOES work is setting an example. Talk is cheap, but even people who are distracted, in denial, or very complacent, will NOTICE when their peers start to behave differently.
 
Actions really do speak louder than words.
Yeah, I prefer the straightforward, brutally honest, non-diluted approach myself.
 
I leave a few dozen case of canned goods and assorted other preps out in the open in my galley and bring people in through an entrance which they have to walk past, make them notice it visually, for the express purpose of making an impression that I am not just talking, I am doing it myself.
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