Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/04/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yet some more practical advice: http://www.forbes.com/2009/04/27/swine-flu-mexico-sars-business-healthcare-flu-hysteria.html?partner=daily_newsletter Cheers Jayanand On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Steve Barbour <kididdoc at cox.net> wrote: > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >