Ton of Money To Be Made With Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Hype
If you are desperate for money, just look at all of the cash up for grabs in the business of pandemic influenza preparedness hype. Since 2005, billions of government dollars have been given out in gobs to state and local legislatures, medical consultants and big pharmaceutical companies. There is an average of $5 billion (US) spent on pandemic influenza preparedness per year.
This is all to makes a feasible pandemic influenza preparedness program. In 2005, the threat was bird flu. And - surprise - that threat never materialized. Even with studies like April 2008's MIT study that concluded that no pandemic influenza preparedness plans were necessary in this modern age. But there are more strains of influenza floating about to feed on the public's paranoia that you can cash in on.
Write A Book
One of the ways you can cash in and call it public-minded pandemic influenza planning is to write a book about what might happen if an extremely lethal and contagious disease ever hit America. You could write a fiction book, but fiction is much harder to sell than non-fiction. Besides, you'd be hard-pressed to top Michael Crichton's "The Andromeda Strain" (1969).
Make A Documentary
This seems to be a Golden Age of the documentary - and, with the advent of the computer, they are getting surprisingly inexpensive to produce. You don't have to worry about distribution when you can just set your film up on YouTube or other video sharing websites.
All you need is the Photoshop program, or something similar, to make maps and do neat illustrations of the suffering and dying in your proposed pandemic influenza preparedness plan. And you don't even need to be accurate. Look at how much money the duo who made the 9/11 conspiracy "documentary", "Spare Change", made. If you can spin a reasonable line of conjecture but yet do it with an authoritative tone of voice, you'll have an audience willing to open up their pocketbooks for you.
Sell Bunker Construction
Real estate and construction are not doing well with the current economic slowdown. However, if you are in the construction business and have a slow patch, consider shifting your tactics to make underground or above ground germ-proof sterilized bunkers for your eager and paranoid clients. And, who knows, the way the foreclosure crisis is hitting the country, you may just get a new lease on your business life at making affordable housing with your underground bunkers.
