The apparent concern is that everyone will start working form home in the event that their kids get swine flu, perhaps suspecting that they are next to fall ill. Since testing is no longer being done to determine if a person has the seasonal flu verses swine flu, people are being conditioned to just go ahead and assume the worst. The General Accountability Office (GAO) has anticipated that the internet could be slowed under extreme strain or even crash, “as bored or sick schoolchildren were playing online, sucking up valuable bandwidth,” according to a Reuters article on
www.drudgereport.com Funny how a kid can be sick enough to stay home from school, but still have the energy to play video games. But in all fairness, it’s also thought that some won’t be sick because whole districts might close down due to large numbers of parents calling and reporting their children’s absences. And so in an effort to keep America moving and their paychecks from being pummeled (once all their vacation and sick time is used up) it’s thought that, “millions (might) began to telework from home.”
Though The General Accountability Office is the one raising the issue of “millions of teleworkers,” and is accusing The Department of Homeland Security of doing “little planning” concerning the issue, Homeland Security has said that the GAO’s concept about managing millions in a situation like that is unrealistic. Nevertheless, the GAO seems to think that, “Private Internet providers might need government authorization to block popular websites” or at least have the ability to, “reduce residential transmission speeds to make way for commerce.” Interestingly, communist China does this, only they don’t hide behind the excuse of a “national emergency” or a “pandemic.” They just do it and if anyone should decide to protest their policies, they are either thrown in prison or killed.
But getting back to the Department of Homeland Security, it was apparently mentioned in a letter to the GAO that, "An expectation of unlimited Internet access during a pandemic is not realistic." Perhaps this is the making of yet another ‘crisis that won’t be wasted.’ As one considers healthcare, the economy, climate change (which could usher in cap and tax and food shortages) and swine flu, it's amazing how many crises there are, isn’t it?
Source: http://www.examiner.com/x-16044-Christianity--Politics-Examiner~y2009m10d29-Washington-scrambles-to-resolve-internet-issues-if-flu-pandemic-worsens# 
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