Preparing for Swine Flu

Neighbors,

This Swine Flu makes me a bit uneasy as I am sure it does for many of you. Knowledge is power right, so I've gathered some information and have come up with a plan to help us prepare to help each other out if need be.

There are five things I'd like to ask you to do:

1) Read the blog I've posted on the front page called "Swine Flu Facts from Boston Public Heath Commission" which has tons of helpful information and facts on the swine flu - http://www.neighborsforneighbors.org/profiles/blogs/swine-flu-facts-from-boston-1

2) Join your neighborhoods group by navigation the map on the front page. To join, zoom in a bit, identify your street, click on the shaded area above your street, and the link to your neighborhood group. Once on the group page, click "Join (group name)". Please join your group now - http:///www.neighborsforneighbors.org

3) Update your profile questions to include the street name where you live. This will help us get targeted information to you if needed. THIS INFORMATION IS PRIVATE! Please do so now - http://www.neighborsforneighbors.org/profiles/settings/editProfileInfo

4) Become an Emergency Preparedness Block Captain! Block captains will coordinate the following the disseminating information as it become available to neighbors on your streets and should it become necessary, work with City and Health officials. Multiple block captains are needed in case one or more of you gets sick. Please join the Emergency Preparedness Block Captains group now - http://www.neighborsforneighbors.org/group/emergencyblockcaptains

5) Please invite your neighbors; members of you neighborhood watch group, community group, or your neighborhood list serve to join this network now! As soon I a receive information, I will get it out to you immediately. To invite others to join the network, go to - http://www.neighborsforneighbors.org/main/invitation/new

Thanks for making the time to prepare!

Joseph

0 members like this

Comment

You need to be a member of Neighbors for Neighbors to add comments!

Join Neighbors for Neighbors

Comment by Laura on April 30, 2009 at 9:27pm: Community preparation for any threat is key so thanks so much Joe for posting this. There is one area of preparedness that the CDC and mainstream media is not mentioning, however. In case this is a pandemic (which is looking more likely with the WHO threat level now raised to 5 out of max of 6), especially a moderate or severe one which they say they can't be clear about yet, an well-accepted strategy of both decreasing the impact of the pandemic on communities, and protecting individuals and families, is social distancing and self-isolating or quarentine (SIP=shelter-in-place). Many respected, mainstream public health experts advocate telling the public about this accepted strategy. In order for communities, families, and individuals to prepare for this, they need to have supplies at home on hand. For further information on how to do this, and what to prepare, see the public health forum www.fluewiki.com and the related attached forum fluwiki2. Many informed scientists and public officials themselves are prepared to shelter in place for three months, but the word is not getting out for the public to do this (today the US Health and Human Services Website now says to stock up with TWO WEEKS only of medicine food water batteries cleaning supplies etc), for example. I commented in more detail after Josephs other posts around the Swine Flu outbreak.

RSS

Badges | Report an Issue | Terms of Service