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Sunday, October 12, 2008

Thinking the unthinkable

Is it October Surprise time, yet?

It seems in this $election we keep having multiple Surprises in October, and none of them are turning out the way the Company seems to want. The stakes keep getting higher.

Hence, this video.

The bottom line is, it's likely survivable if you are unhurt in the first 5 minutes. But you have to do the right things. Watch the video, carefully. It's only 20 minutes long.

A bit of biographical information about the speaker:

"Dr. Irwin Redlener spends his days imagining the worst: He studies how humanity might survive natural or human-made disasters of unthinkable severity. He's been an outspoken critic of half-formed government recovery plans (especially after Katrina).

After 9/11, Irwin Redlener emerged as a powerful voice in disaster medicine -- the discipline of medical care following natural and human-made catastrophes. He was a leading face of the relief effort after hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and is the author of Americans at Risk: Why We Are Not Prepared for Megadisasters and What We Can Do Now. He's the associate dean, professor of Clinical Public Health and director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health.

His parallel passion is addressing the American disaster that happens every day: millions of kids living without proper health care. He and Paul Simon are the co-founders of the Children’s Health Fund, which raises money and awareness toward health care for homeless, neglected and poor children."

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