Final Thoughts
I’m home now, and my attention goes often to the different issues that were raised at the conference. From what I had heard about last year’s summit, businesses now at least have been thinking about a plan for pandemic influenza. Many businesses have made some decent progress, and so this indeed is a success. However, now that people have started looking into the implications of a pandemic, they find that they have opened a big can of worms: many complex problems exist and need to be addressed. We haven’t found all of the solutions yet, and in all likelihood there will not be a solution to every problem. In short, we will have to deal. That isn’t a very optimistic outlook to have, but I feel that it is a realistic approach to such a potential for disaster. The important point: just because the task at hand is daunting, doesn’t mean that it is impossible to think about or plan for. We should all do what we can, and that means YOU!