When (not if, when) a worldwide influenza pandemic strikes, I won't care if there is a quarantine, you couldn't pay me to leave the house. You think this is bullshit? How much education in microbiology do you have? None, I would guess, or you would understand-the first time someone is simutaniously infected with both the bird flu and the regular (human to human contagious) flu, the two will transfer genetic material. The very likely result is a human to human contagious disease with a 50% mortality rate. This is not politics, or conspiracy, this is like AIDS, or the black death, or the flu of 1918. each of which killed 10's of millions of people. For once in his life GW seems to have listened to people smarter than he. Unfortunately, the responce will be handled by inept political appointies.