In the shadow of Australia's first H5 bird flu mass mortality event, Western Australia has answered uncertainty with transparency, launching an interactive surveillance dashboard that maps detections and testing activity across the state in real time. The tool is one piece of a broader mobilization — regional command centers, expanded laboratories, trained field teams, and an informed public — all oriented toward a threat that officials no longer speak of as hypothetical. It is a quiet but consequential act of collective preparation: a society arranging itself to see clearly before the storm a