Our Mission
How dangerous is the swine flu?
Experts are divided. Some say it will mutate and return this fall in a much more lethal form, possibly killing hundreds of millions.
Others say the whole thing is blown out of proportion, citing the fact that it's a disease that kills pigs, not people.
So far there have been only a few hundred killed by the H1N1 virus. You stand a greater chance of being killed by lightning. In this respect, the naysayers are correct.
But the flu virus never stands still. It is constantly changing. WHO has now declared the spread of the disease to be an unstoppable pandemic. The big question is, will it become more lethal?
Is the risk big enough that you should be concerned? Should you start stockpiling food and water and face masks and other necessities on the basis of a threat that may never come to pass?
Our purpose with this website is to provide you with the kind of information you need in order to make a balanced, reasonable approach to the issue.
There are hundreds of websites on the topic that have cropped up in the past few months. Many are thinly disguised sites that are designed to sell you their products. Our Links page will help you find the good ones.
If you sign up for our newsletter we'll keep you informed on a regular basis on the latest developments. If you'd like to be pro-active and help inform others we'll send you free brochures to pass out. If your employer doesn't yet have a business continuity plan in place, we have one that you can download at no charge.
You'll find a few products on our site as well. Mostly face respirators and hand sanitizers -- two products that we think are absolutely vital for surviving a pandemic. After examining the various products out there, we've selected only those that we think are the best, and we provide you with the reasons why. And they help finance our mission, which is to inform as many people as possible about the possibility of a pandemic, and ultimately to save lives.
Bob & Julie Butler
Victoria, BC, Canada
