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 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