Here's more about crucial business functions when the bird flu comes, in which not even corporate school is mentioned as a vital service, probably just a failure of imagination?
Not to worry.
Grocery stores are here in the thick of the planning, and by golly, the CARTOONS will continue come hell, high water and bird flu combined, because well, global conglomerates are planning for our kids to be "homebound for months" even as local schools continue to define survival planning as ways to keep more FTEs at school round the clock.

March 16, 2006
Is Business Ready for a Flu Pandemic?

ROME — Governments worldwide have spent billions planning for a
potential influenza pandemic: buying medicines, running disaster drills, developing strategies for tighter border controls. But one piece of the plan may be missing: the ability of corporations to continue to provide vital services.

Airlines, for instance, would have to fly health experts around the
world and overnight couriers would have to rush medical supplies to the front lines. Banks would need to ensure that computer systems continued to move money internationally and that local customers could get cash. News outlets would have to keep broadcasting so people could get information that might mean the difference between life and death.

"I tell companies to use their imagination to think of all the
unintended consequences," said Mark Layton, global leader for enterprise risk services at Deloitte & Touche in New York. . .
"down to the food available for purchase in our grocery stores, one begins to understand the importance of advanced planning."

Some of the most important planning involves not employee health, but how to continue to deliver vital services in a crisis. . .
Time Warner is also working to create a mechanized cart that could
automatically load tape after tape into a satellite transmission system, so it could keep stations like Cartoon Network on the air — a boon if children were homebound for months.

So does our planning reflect our priorities? Just checking.
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