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Entries Tagged as 'Preparedness Lessons'

Should SARS Experience Make The U.S. Public Take H1N1 Flu More Seriously?

May 9th, 2009 · No Comments

John Bussey of the Wall Street Journal wrote an interesting piece in Friday’s edition (n.b. it is behind a pay wall) about what the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) outbreak might teach us about dealing with the H1N1 flu. Bussey, who is currently the Journal’s Washington bureau chief and covered Asia for the paper during 2003, [...]

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Tags: Media · Pandemic Flu · Preparedness Lessons

Request For Reader Ideas: “What Are The Lessons Of The H1N1/Swine Flu Outbreak On Citizen Preparedness/Response For Future Emergencies?”

May 7th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Though public and media attention on the H1N1/Swine Flu outbreak has waned, there is a need to examine the lessons of the past couple weeks on citizen preparedness and response for the future — whether that be for a reoccurrence of a more deadly H1N1 flu possibly in the Fall or another national emergency situation.
So, [...]

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Tags: Pandemic Flu · Preparedness Lessons

New British Report, “Resilient Nation,” Offers Guidance For U.S. Community Resilience

April 21st, 2009 · No Comments

I just read an interesting new study, “Resilient Nation,” by Charlie Edwards from the London office of the think tank, Demos. Resilience is a concept that has been talked about a good deal here in the U.S., and this report is a very useful addition to that discussion. Though the majority of the case studies/stories in “Resilient Nation” [...]

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Tags: British Preparedness · Preparedness Lessons · Preparedness Reports

Why Transportation Security Administration’s Blog Is A Model For Blogging.Gov

April 12th, 2009 · No Comments

Slate has a good article, “U.S. Department of Blogging: What The Rest of the Government Can Learn from the TSA” by Christopher Beam in which he argues that the Transportation Security Administration’s blog Evolution of Security is a model for governmental blogging, particularly in its interaction with the public. (As readers of this blog know, I agree. In [...]

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Tags: Government Web Sites · Preparedness 2.0 · Preparedness Lessons

“Is Obama Ready For A Bomb On The Train?”

March 23rd, 2009 · No Comments

That’s the provocative question asked by the headline of an ABCNews.com article written by Leonard Marcus, Isaac Ashkenazi, and Barry Dorn from Harvard’s National Preparedness Leadership Initiative with advice for the new Administration. The piece came out in December when this blog was on hiatus but I wanted to post it because the authors point out the [...]

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Tags: International · Preparedness Lessons · President Obama

How Best To Warn People About Imminent Disasters?

March 12th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Amanda Ripley has an interesting article in the current issue of Governing, “Run for Your Lives, Please”. Amanda examines the issue of how best to alert people in advance of a disasters. She points out that before Hurricane Ike made landfall the National Weather Service put out a rare “certain death” warning which got the attention [...]

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Tags: Preparedness Ideas · Preparedness Incentives · Preparedness Lessons

On Valentine’s Day Weekend, What Free Condoms Can Teach About Preparedness

February 17th, 2009 · 3 Comments

Over this Valentine’s Day weekend, the City of New York gave away hundreds of thousands of condoms as part of its NYC Condom ’safe sex’ social marketing campaign. Since it launched the program on Valentine’s Day in 2007, the City’s Department of Health has distributed a total of 70 million free samples. 
Now, obviously there are [...]

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Tags: City Preparedness · Preparedness Incentives · Preparedness Lessons

Blog Helps Inspire Reader To Volunteer For Red Cross Disaster Training

September 25th, 2008 · 1 Comment

One of my main objectives in starting this blog was to encourage and help other citizens to get more involved in emergency preparedness by describing my own experiences. So, I couldn’t have been more thrilled to receive an email last week from a reader named Valerie Berg in Boulder, Colorado.
Valerie wrote that she had wanted [...]

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Tags: Preparedness Lessons · Reader Feedback

New Study Indicates Voters Reward Politicians Who Push Disaster Relief Not Disaster Preparedness

August 5th, 2008 · 1 Comment

When most of us think of what we should be doing to prepare for disasters, we often forget that exercising our role as citizens and voters can be as important as the more well known tasks like storing emergency supplies or creating a communications plan. 
That point is underscored by an intriguing new study,  “Preferring A Pound [...]

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Tags: Preparedness Lessons

Why Prepare? Ask (& Watch) The Survivors (Part 2) — The Pinellas County “Project Storm Story”

July 30th, 2008 · No Comments

A ‘near miss’ like yesterday’s Los Angeles earthquake often doesn’t motivate people to prepare. Sometimes, it requires something major to actually happen to you before doing anything.  
Yet, as Part 1, the Times-Picayune collection of preparedness tips I posted on Monday, indicates, the testimony of disaster survivors can also be very compelling and helpful. That’s why Pinellas [...]

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Tags: Hurricane Preparedness · Preparedness Lessons · Preparedness Tips