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Show 2 • WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 2009 ommunity ews Covering what matters most Preparing for a pandemic, part 2 -NEWS- Spanish Fork 280 North Main St. Spanish Fork, UT 84660 Ready or Not Dawn Van Nosdol Lane Henderson Publisher Namon Bills Editor Dana Robinson . Assoc. Editor The Spanish Fork News is published each Wednesday for $37.50 per year in area and $41.50 out of area by J-Mart, 280 North Main St., Spanish Fork Utah 84660. Email stories to cditor@spforknews.com Email ads to ads@spforknews.com Call us at 794-4964 POSTMASTER Send address changes to Spanish Fork News 280 North Main St. Spanish Fork, Utah 84660 The entire content of this newspaper is Copyright © 2009 Spanish Fork News. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form without the written permission of the editor or publisher. THE SPANISH FORK NEWS CUSPS 024716) is published weekly for 537.50 per year by JMart Publishing, 280 North Main St., Spanish Fork, UT 84660. Periodicals Postage Paid at Spanish Fork, UT. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Trie Spanish Fork News, 42 East 300 North, Spanish Fork, UT 84660. DEADLINES Weddings, anniversaries, missionaries, 1st birthdays, articles, photos, letters to the editor ..-,'• . Friday, 12 p.m. The difference between a regular flu outbreak and a pandemic is that for the regular flu (which is miserable) the CDC (Center for Disease Control) knows what flu is most likely to break out and it is a known entity. Most people will already have built up an immunity to the "flu of the month" and the vaccine will already be manufactured in anticipation of an outbreak. A pandemic flu however is a newfluthat has never circulated in the general public before, nobody has antibodies which can protect them and there is no backup vaccine. When a pandemic breaks out, the government's Health and Human Services department anticipates 30% or more of the public will be affected. After the pandemic starts, and after they figure out an appropriate vaccine, it will take approximately six months to be able to produce enough vaccine to inoculate everyone. The people who will have access to the first vaccine are those who need it most like: health care workers, public safety workers, first responders (CERT members included), the very young and the elderly or infirmed. So what do the rest of us do in the meantime? Lots. First, you do exactly what I have been telling you to do all along — store your water and get your food supply built up. No kidding! That instruction comes straight from the government. They want you to have a twoweek water supply for every person in your family. They say one gallon of water, but I still stick with my two, especially if you are sick. You need to make sure that you have enough to keep hydrated and to maintain good hygiene if something happens to the water supply. (Two gallons, per person, per day for a two week period.) After all, hurricanes will happen, storms will cut electricity and earthquakes will still continue to shake the earth — no matter how sick we are. Next, you need to store food — for two reasons actually. The first is that when the pandemic hits, as I said before, the government anticipates that more than 30% of the U.S. population will potentially become ill. That breaks down to approximately 90 million Americans that will get sick and a possible two million Americans that may die. So with that many people getting sick and the rest trying to take care of them and not get sick, who will deliver all of those perishable, canned or frozen foods to your local store? Truckers and sailors get sick too, and many supply lines may be tenuous at best and non-existent at worst. And what about all of the people that are sick and are no longer able to unload a truck even IF it were to come in? The second reason you want a large and varied food supply is And now let's play.. Auto Oo because who wants to go out shopping when you feel miserable? Also, you need to make sure that you have good nutrition so that your body has every chance to heal itself. Even if we were able to get out, there may be nothing to buy and essen- r tial items, like medica/ tions, cough syrup and food, may be ^ in short supply. You need to prepare your family with a well rounded food and sundry supply because you may have to/want to stay home for / an extend- ( ed period of time. The government has made it known that they can't help us and they expect us to get prepared ahead of time. Go to www. apreparedhome .com for an extended article and more information about what our government is asking us to do... and for goodness sake, get your water stored and" build up your food storage! Heating your home in those 'good 'ole days' for a moment or two. Then speaking with the quiet wisdom of an elder, she said, "Good trade." Wow! That little cold snap we had a week ago Your chuckle for the week: Sally was driving really made many of us home from a business trip think about some of the isto Northern Arizona when sues that Dawn Van Nosshe saw an elderly Navajo dol has been writing about woman walking on the side in her column. I'm a perof the road. She stopped son that doesn't mind bethe car and asked the ing hot in the summer, but woman if she would like a I sure don't like being cold ride. With a silent nod of in the winter. I was thinkthanks, the woman got into ing about what I would do the car. The old woman sat if the power went out for silently until she noticed a a week or ten days, how brown bag on the seat next would I really cope with to Sally. "What's in the such a situation? I couldn't bag?" she asked. "A bottle move in with my children of wine. I got it for my because they would all be husband ," said Sally. The in the same boat. Well, we Navajo woman was silent do have one grandson that There and Back Again Shirlene R. Ottesen Q: Even with beating the national average for vehicle time in the shop, this business has refused to pat itself on the back. A: What is Robarge Collision? has a wood burning stove in his home, but it would be very crowded if we all went to live with him and his family! When Hy and I built our brick home in 1966, we had a fireplace put in and I enjoyed having it. And there were a few times that we did depend on it to heat at least the family room in our home. Then, when we did some remodeling in 2001, we decided to put a gas log in the fireplace, so that ended our alternative heat source. A couple of our children have gas logs in their fireplaces and I think they are seriSee SHIRLENE • 3 Q: Receiving no government bailout, they still manage to save their customers money on every vehicle auto body repair. A: Who are Cary and Judy Robarge? Q: 97.86%. A: What is the customer satisfaction rating at Robarge Collision? When you're in a fencer bender or worse the answer is: Exceptional Care, Collision Repair 798-1967 • 570 South Main St. • Spanish Fork Courtesy photo i |