Poverty leads to hardship and failure.

There are several very good websites which describe the details of preparedness planning for citizens.

Immigrant children are highly vulnerable. Their level of disadvantage and fragility has consistently grown due to factors outside their control.

Disasters like Oklahoma City and 9/11 were time-limited. The children who were affected psychologically could go to a place of normalcy.

The reality is that it's harder to recruit pediatric subspecialists if you're not recruiting them for a children's hospital.

Fallout shelters are like bell-bottoms. They've gone in and out of favor.

If a severe pandemic materializes, all of society could pay a heavy price for decades of failing to create a rational system of health care that works for all of us.