A quick follow on Dale’s post. I just wanted to direct attention to the nice posting from demfromct at dailykos on pandemic preparedness, emergency response, and related matters. A recent post addressing the National Response Framework included this choice graphic on pandemic flu authorities and responsibilities that seemed too good to let slip past. Note the dead bird in the upper left. (What is going on with that bird exactly? Maybe just resting? Hanging upside down? Etc.) Dynamic org. charts of emergency response certainly have come a long way since U.S. Civil Defense in 1950.
COLLABORATORY: VITAL SYSTEMS SECURITY
The Vital Systems Security collaboration examines how, today, security is being constituted as an object of knowledge, intervention, and political reflection. It proposes that the security of vital systems such as energy, transportation, communication and health is one norm in relationship to which security is being reproblematized. A central goal of the collaboration is to examine these issues through collective, conceptually driven inquiry that addresses rapidly developing contemporary problems.
that graphic made my eyes hurt. if our emergency response planners use other software the way they use powerpoint, we’re fucked.
I think we can agree that we are fucked one way or the other. Isn’t that kind of our sine qua non?