Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/04/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Some more on swine flu: http://www.slate.com/id/2217019/?from=rss Cheers Jayanand On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 7:45 AM, Steve Barbour <kididdoc at cox.net> wrote: > > On Apr 27, 2009, at 6:47 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote: > >> George/Steve, >> Tell me, is this another Bird Flu where all of 100 people died >> worldwide in the "epidemic" and everyone wore blue masks on flights >> for months out of panic, Singapore would not let people with a cold >> enter the country? Its more dangerous to drive a car or cross the >> road! Media hype whipping up mass hysteria! These sort of diseases are >> usually totally localised and minor. I would tell the media to hype >> finding a preventive cure for malaria or typhoid or cholera or similar >> proven mass killers if they want to help humanity at large. > > > it is hard to know just yet what this will be Jayanand... ?it may be over > reaction based on early data from Mexico, but infections elsewhere, while > occurring at a high rate, don't seem especially severe, and the mortality > rate outside of ?Mexico appears far lower than in that country... > > curious... ! > > > yet we recall the flu epidemic starting in 1918 when 20-100 million people > died during 2 years....and for various good reasons scientists have > predicted a severe new flu variant for the past 5-6 years, and have been > working during that time on a new vaccine as well as containment scenarios > for an expected epidemic.... > > > let's not be too hasty to draw conclusions about the direction this will > take... > > in any case, something potentially bad is going on here that demnds careful > evaluation and explanation, before we can safely draw conclusions. > > to be sure, at this point something about the situation just doesn't smell > right to me, so far it appears to be a very aggressive virus in terms of > human to human rates of spread, showing apparently ?very high > pathogenicity/& mortality rate in one country, with low pathogenicity > elsewhere... > > various explanations are possible, among them, either something is wrong > with the data. or the virus has already changed... > > > Steve > > >> >> Jayanand >> >> >> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 4:49 AM, Steve Barbour <kididdoc at cox.net> >> wrote: >>> >>> On Apr 27, 2009, at 3:55 PM, George Lottermoser wrote: >>> >>>> hopefully the discussion will not be about a "full blown pandemic" >>> >>> >>> it is what it is, and that is yet to be seen... >>> >>> >>> in the meantime the blue masks are clearly the most popular... >>> >>> >>> for that new sporty look, >>> >>> >>> Steve >>> >>> >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> George Lottermoser >>>> george at imagist.com >>>> http://www.imagist.com >>>> http://www.imagist.com/blog >>>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist >>>> >>>> On Apr 27, 2009, at 4:37 PM, Steve Barbour wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Apr 27, 2009, at 9:08 AM, George Lottermoser wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> <http://www.reuters.com/news/pictures/rpSlideshows?articleId=USRTXECIR#a=35> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> thanks George, ?it occurs to me we might discuss all this further here >>>>> at >>>>> some point, >>>>> >>>>> Steve >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Regards, >>>>>> George Lottermoser >>>>>> george at imagist.com >>>>>> http://www.imagist.com >>>>>> http://www.imagist.com/blog >>>>>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> Leica Users Group. >>>>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Leica Users Group. >>>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Leica Users Group. >>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >