Bird flu hype

"Ra?ï?g L???i?" wittered
What makes 'Bird flu' a greater threat NOW, then it was in past has
more to do with our sensitzation to the fact that such a thing HAS
HAPPENED and thus will happen again, some millenium ...
On the main, people are chasing their tail on this one.

Yeah; and the fact that there are many more people around living at higher
densities - oh, and that little-known fact that people flying around in
poorly air-conditioned jets makes the spread easier and just a little
quicker.

What is *really* remarkable is how much some people lose all common sense
when discussing these issues.

Rocket science it ain't.
Serious risk - of course it is.
Certainty? No.

Andrew

Andrew Heenan wrote:
"Ra?ï?g L???i?" wittered
What makes 'Bird flu' a greater threat NOW, then it was in past has
more to do with our sensitzation to the fact that such a thing HAS
HAPPENED and thus will happen again, some millenium ...
On the main, people are chasing their tail on this one.

Yeah; and the fact that there are many more people around living at higher
densities ...
Sanitation and public health was sooo much better 100+ years ago ... 5
people to a bed ... spit in a mug to clean it out. No pesticides ...
The good old days, eh?
...- oh, and that little-known fact that people flying around in
poorly air-conditioned jets makes the spread easier and just a little
quicker.
Yes, I am well aware of such factors. As I am with the much greater
prevelence of reporting and dissemination of news concerning the
incidents of such things occuring. ... Just astonishing, this plague of
new flu deaths in the past few years. A mystery why a select few
African/Asian countries don't have a single reported case of AIDS, too,
eh? ...Rocket science it ain't.
What is *really* remarkable is how much some people lose all common sense
when discussing these issues.
Like the notice in my family physicians office, during the SARS
epidemic in Toronto.
Please sanitize your hands upon entering the office. ( There was no
mention about doing so when leaving. Not the doctor's concern, eh?)
....Rocket science it ain't.
Rocket science it ain't.
Serious risk - of course it is.
Certainty? No.
.... Especially with what one is oblivious in regard. It's what one
doesn't know that usually kills. ... NOT what "is" known to be
dangerous.
RL
Andrew

... Now, I understand! ... you care about spread via air travel.

Perfect. Pure NIMBY