The chief of the world health organization said that people need to be ready for more severe form of the H1N1 (swine flu) virus. Here is a link to the article at yahoo news - WHO chief says world should prepare for severe flu.
Some important considerations for dealing with a pandemic is food production, and preventing the disease from spreading.
Food production starts with having a home garden. The less people have to go out into the public, the better. Going to the grocery store is one of the main reasons why people leave their house. So if you can grow a certain amount of food for your family, that help eliminate "having" to go buy food.
Then there is the supply chain to the grocery store. If tens of thousands of people were to get sick, there is a good chance that supply chains will become disrupted. In the middle ages when the plague would strike an area - it was common for people to starve to death. That is because the farmers and merchants died. Those people were the ones that grew and transported the food to the cities. Nothing has changed in the past 600+ years. People still grow the food, people still transport the food and people still buy the food. Any disruption in the supply chain can cause shortages. Long term shortages causes starvation.
I have seen a lot of survivalist talking about long term food storage, but that is not the answer. One day, sooner or later those food stocks are going to run out. Real survivalist need gardening skills. You must know how to raise and process your own food.
To help prevent the spread of the disease, people should limit contact with others, have some N95 mask in stock, use lots of hand soap and stay away from people that are sick. Isolation is one way to stop the spread of a disease. If you do not come into contact with anyone that is sick, usually you can not catch the disease. Lack of food is one of the main things that will drive people from their homes.
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