discover magazine

http://discovermagazine.com/2009/jul-aug/25-swine-flu-was-warning-shot-how-do-better-next-pandemic


This spring we were caught with our public-health pants down. Preparing for the next big threat will be difficult but not impossible.

For one, this lead is funny. It leads to a funny image of our public-health with it's pants down. I like how it goes from a funny comment to a serious statemement about the next threat of the next pandemic to spread across the world.

The rest of the story wasn't necessary as interesting as the lead. It provided information I'm sure the most common people would agree and disagree over. They were saying that if the money that was needed to be put into stop another pandemic virus that the people would not want to use that much money for a future thing instead of things that need to be taking care of now.