The new Flu Wiki has already become a huge success, and no wonder. Among its other resources is the pandemic scenario described by CanadaSue. It is absolutely superb, a brilliant working-out of avian flu's implications for a medium-sized Canadian city.
As a science-fiction novelist, I admire her ability to anticipate the mundane details and to present them in concrete language. You'll read her fictional diary thinking, "Oh God, didn't think of that. Oh God, that too. And that!" She has clearly done her homework, basing her scenario on facts and extrapolating reasonably from those facts.
I will be surprised and disappointed if this portrait of a pandemic isn't picked up by the print media and circulated widely. Impatient Web surfers may not want to click through the whole long story, but it's worth the effort—and on paper it would be a literally compelling page-turner.
