Swine Flu—Don’t Ask For Whom The Bell Tolls

Please click here for the City of Houston Swine Flu information home page.  It is very helpful.

Another reason I’m linking to it is what it says at the bottom of the page. It says this—

Other sources of information:

• State Health Department swine flu information
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention swine flu web site:  http://www.cdc.gov/swineflu/
• World Health Organization swine flu web site:  http://www.who.int/csr/disease/swineflu/en/index.html

The needed facts to deal with Swine Flu, and the tools needed for a proper response to this threat, come from city government, state government, the federal government and from world health authorities. People are going to have to work together.

The 17th-century poet John Donne wrote the following—

“Therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee”.  

Everything is connected. This is not a hurricane where you can evacuate.  While it may well be that this threat does turn out as bad as feared, once again we are reminded that our fates in life are tied together.

The bell in the picture above is from the Cathedral de León in Nicaragua.