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images from Avian Flu Awareness Project
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For
three all too brief hours, the Avian Flu Awareness Project will hold
office hours at San Pedro's own
Walled City gallery. During that time, Awareness Project field
staff will answer your questions and actively engage in an exercise
intended to increase community awareness of the various potentialities
of the possible pandemic.
Avian Flu Awareness Project Mission Statement
Right now, as you are reading this, medicines are being stockpiled,
billions are being spent, the brows of scientists the world over are
sweating, somewhere a government employee is detailing policies for
quarantines, sick birds are flying in the air across Europe, Africa and
Asia... Actions and reactions are occurring, the obscure policies of
governments and drug companies about a normally minor illness have
boiled to the top of the media cycle. Like Schrodinger's Kitten, we all
now live in the duality of uncertainty that lies at the intersection of
events that will lead to pandemic or no pandemic.
What does this all mean? Is this Y2K all over again, or is humanity
getting ready to absorb a sucker punch from nature that will divide us
into two camps, the living and the dead? The Avian Flu Awareness
Project addresses the mystery of potential pandemic and our collective
experience of waiting and worrying about the uncertainties of the
coming days and months.
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