This big one is a virus

Out local CERT (Community Emergency Response Team) leaders have been advising for years that families prepare for the Big One by assembling 72 hour emergency kits of food, water, flashlights and much more, but certainly toilet paper. No one will know when an earthquake, tsunami or volcanic eruption will leave us helpless, without power or water or transportation access.

No one ever expected the big one would come ashore, in the dark of night, or not, as a virus. And, if we are not devastated, we are afraid. The shelves empty of hand sanitizer and the run on toilet paper –toilet paper! &n...