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The Difference Between Life and Death: Outliving the Flu Pandemic of 2009

by Dennis Miner

106 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #07-2794; ISBN 1-4251-6133-2; US$11.95, C$11.95, EUR8.16, £6.17

This is a short story of one family's survival of the flu pandemic depending upon self reliance and traditional family values. It begs the question, "So…what is your plan?"

About the Book

This is a story of hope and survival. Self-reliance and traditional family values help our family to stick together and outlive the flu pandemic crisis. In the process of overcoming this struggle, our family becomes stronger, as does American society. Throughout this life changing experience, there are elements of self reliance, fear, death of a loved one, courage, family conflict, self preservation, life's lessons, going back to the simple basics, and so much more.

My hope is to create more public awareness and help people to prepare themselves and their families for the imminent calamity that one day each of us will likely have to face. On that dreadful day when the pandemic comes, all of us will know in our hearts that we did not do enough to prepare for it, and if it just so happens that we do live through it, we will live out the rest of our lives burdened with the knowledge and the guilt of that unforgiving fact.

About the Author

Dennis Miner has a B.A. degree in Speech Communication and a M.A. degree in Communication Studies from California State University, Sacramento. He is retired from the U.S. Army with the rank of Major. He currently lives in Colorado. He is a contributing author to the Emergency Preparedness and Response Division of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, After Action Report of the statewide drill to test state readiness and the response plan for a flu pandemic. The mass vaccination exercise included 29 points of dispensing sites opened around the state and dispensed 10,000 flu vaccines on November 17, 2007.