The Niagra Fall Reporter on Senate bill (S. 1873) :

In essence, however, it would force Americans to receive inoculations against a disease that has yet to kill one of them, while removing their constitutional right to seek redress in our courts in case of injury or death from the shots because of company negligence. The proposal, now moving its way through the Senate, would also ban citizens from using the Freedom of Information Act and other popular informational laws to discover whether the new vaccine (when it is finally produced) was effective and safe, and even whether anyone had suffered adverse reactions to it.

Forced innoculations (that’s Bush-style ‘freedom’ for you) and you can’t sue the drug company if the vaccine kills your spouse… but that’s ok- because according to ABC News, this could be almost as devastating as Nuclear War:

Parts of major cities would become ghost towns, travel restrictions would go into effect and hospitals would be overwhelmed.

“We get into a realm here of some very ugly scenes,” says Dr. Irwin Redlener of the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. “There is most definitely the need to quarantine cities and quarantine people.”

The draft of Bush’s report predicts as many as 200 million Americans would be infected and 200,000 Americans would die.

Most cities would be expected to use large stadiums as make-shift hospitals, much as hurricane victims were given shelter in New Orleans and Houston.

And of course the quarantines could look like the movie Outbreak, where citizens try to flee but the military won’t let them out.

From an AP Story posted at PrisonPlanet.com :

President Bush, stirring debate on the worrisome possibility of a bird flu pandemic, suggested dispatching American troops to enforce quarantines in any areas with outbreaks of the killer virus.