Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/04/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Apr 27, 2009, at 10:05 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote: > Some more on swine flu: > > http://www.slate.com/id/2217019/?from=rss thanks, a fine article analyzing the strange inconsistencies in the data... Steve > > 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 >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information