Americans fear the wrong things. I blame Bush. And possibly the media. And the nervous nelly that wrote this article trying to substitute in what he wants us to panic about.
“People call these crises wake-up calls,” says Dr. Irwin Redlener, associate dean of the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University and director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness.
“But they’re more like snooze alarms. We get agitated for a while, and then we don’t follow through.”
Not So Fast 