{"id":92,"date":"2005-11-04T11:03:31","date_gmt":"2005-11-04T18:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/?p=92"},"modified":"2005-11-04T11:05:34","modified_gmt":"2005-11-04T18:05:34","slug":"un-lays-out-bird-flu-battle-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2005\/11\/04\/un-lays-out-bird-flu-battle-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Lays Out Bird Flu Battle Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scienceblog.com\/cms\/un_lays_out_bird_flu_battle_plan_9221\">Science Blog<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Confronting the possibility of a potentially devastating human bird flu pandemic, the United Nations system &#8212; from Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) to the UN health and agricultural agencies &#8212; today laid out a blueprint for immediate preventive and mitigating action.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What are they going to do? Pass a resolution, write the virus a nasty letter and hope it goes away? This seems to be their plan on everything else.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe the dickweeds at the UN ought to address the AIDS problem in Africa instead of going for the headlines by hyping their &#8220;galant&#8221; efforts to thwart avian flu. And, by the way, move their headquarters closer to Africa and get the hell out of the US. <\/p>\n<p>And, while we&#8217;re at it, get the US the hell out of the UN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are they going to do? Pass a resolution, write it a nasty letter and hope it goes away? This seems to be their plan on everything else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,23,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medix","category-united-nations","category-whacko-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}