Be Prepared - Biological Weapon - Chemical Weapon

INTRODUCTION

Whether a threat from terrorists attacking with anthrax, botulism, plague, ricin, radioactive bombs or nerve gas, we need to be prepared. Whether we are hit with a hurricane, tornado, a flood, earthquake or fire, we must be prepared.

With constant threats of terrorism from Iraq and Saddam Hussein, or Al -Qeida and Bin Laden, we are under attack. The only way that we can be ready is to be prepared. Whether we are asked to evacuate or staying at home, at work or in our cars, WE MUST BE PREPARED.

Simple knowledge about how to survive is not enough. We need to have accumulated the essential tools and materials necessary for survival. THIS BOOK PROVIDES YOU WITH THE READINESS LISTS YOU NEED!

Preparedness is a mindset. You cannot buy a few cans of food, some extra toilet paper and some plastic sheeting and duct tape and then sit back and consider yourself “prepared.” Nor can you rely on your family, friends or local government to step in and take care of you. You must develop a level of awareness that potentially catastrophic events can happen that may alter your day-to-day routines and may drastically limit the availability of what we have come to take for granted (such as communications, electricity, water, access to gasoline).

Preparedness must become a part of our daily lives. We should not live in fear, but we must accept that risks for a major disaster do exist. Our usual response plans will become overwhelmed. There may be rationing, economic disaster, social unrest or epidemics following an attack.

In today’s international climate, preparedness is essential for our national survival. We must reduce our vulnerability to previously unthinkable threats. Even the best prepared states and localities do not possess adequate resources to respond to the full range of terrorist threats we face. We can no longer assume that the government will be there for us in a crisis.

We are a nation of individuals and families. As a nation, the better prepared we are to deal with any catastrophe, natural or man-made, the better we can respond and recover, and the stronger we will remain.. We must become proactive, rather than reactive. All of us should realize that all disasters are ultimately local events. We must accept that Homeland security starts at home.