The first swine flu reports in early May put me into overdrive as reports of the flu grew faster than the dandelions on my lawn after a Michigan rain.
It wasn’t paranoia about having the back of my neck sneezed on in the movie theater, although I do hate that. It was the M.S.W. do-gooder in me, hoping to do some community organizing via my “Health Watch” column in the Ann Arbor Business Review.
When I last wrote about the pandemic in 2007, I learned that local businesses weren’t preparing. http://www.spark-com.com/writing/March07AABR.pdf
I wondered last week if had anything changed.
Here’s the scoop.
http://www.mlive.com/business/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2009/05/business_preparations_begin_fo.html
http://www.mlive.com/business/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2009/05/deb_merion_swine_flu_hope_for.html