Americans Would Ignore Terror Alerts

According to a new story just out by Reuters , most Americans would ignore advice and instructions about a terror attack involving a disease-spreading agent such as Smallpox, or a dirty bomb.

The New York Academy of Medicine study found that people just don't believe terror warnings and information anymore.

Americans Suspicious of Terror Plans, Survey Shows

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By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Most Americans would not cooperate as officials expect during a terror incident such as a smallpox or dirty bomb attack, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.

An in-depth survey found that the people do not trust the federal government to take care of them during an attack, and would take many matters into their own hands -- endangering themselves and their families.

Only two-fifths of those surveyed would follow instructions to go to a public vaccination site in a smallpox outbreak and only three-fifths would stay in a building other than their home after a dirty bomb explosion, the study found.

But a little more planning, and working with communities, may help improve emergency plans, leading to better cooperation, the team sponsored by the New York Academy of Medicine found.

If the survey's predictions are true, said Sherry Glied, chair of the department of health policy at Columbia University in New York, "our plans will fail."

MAKING LOGICAL CHOICES

The researchers conducted in-depth discussions with government and private-sector planners, with community residents from around the country, and did a national telephone survey of 2,545 randomly selected adults.

They found members of the public would not necessarily obey instructions from emergency officials.

"People did not respond irrationally. Rather, they made rational, logical choices," Glied said.

The 'Authorities' have evidently made such a mockery of the terror warning system, that people will die as a result.

One more tidbit:

The study, published on the Internet at http://www.cacsh.org/eptpp.html, offers strategies for getting better cooperation. For example, black Americans are especially suspicious of federal officials but involving churches and community groups in planning would help overcome their fears.

Proof positive that African Americans' votes are just there to be manipulated.  Do they still think we are not paying attention?  I think most people are paying attention, to the wrong things.  When or if a terror attack comes, the populace will be in a free-for-all.