are you kidding me?

Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America

UM ARE YOU KIDDING ME??

WTF??

Tom Shales says:

Not overlooking practical aspects, The Washington Post says the [White House] report not only "assumes" as many as 2 million dead in the United States alone, but also a 40 percent rate of "workforce absenteeism." Good heavens! Maybe preparedness demands that we all start staying home, oh, let's say, this morning. Just to be on the safe side.

"Fatal Contact" argues persuasively that mass suffering, death and, of course, workforce absenteeism are anything but unimaginable; after all, the producers imagined them and put them on film. ABC then irresponsibly slotted the frightening movie at 8, early enough to scare the kiddies right out of their wits.

Just in case our country didn't have enough of a climate of paranoia. Jeez.