🚀 go-pugleaf

gatt wrote:
> 
...
> How many people died from the West Nile outbreak last year?  Okay...how many
> people died from alcohol overdose, auto accidents, falling down stairs or
> accidental electrocution by home appliances?   What are the real killers
> here?
> 
> It plays right into the minds of the insecure and the hypocondriac
> tendencies of a lot of people and when the big threat comes around, people
> may simply be tired of the media crying wolf.
> 
> -gatt


Some 20,000 to 40,000 americans die from the flu each year.
That would be a rate of 1/7500 = 0.013% of the population,
mostly the elderly.
In comparison SARS has a killing rate of 5% (375/7500) and 
SARS is more contagious and it not only kills the elderly.
It even has the particularity to attack first responder 
health care workers.
5% of 270 million is 13 million people. Just in the US!
What a wonderful economic stimulus package!

The US has just created a new source of terrorism and weaponized
SARS is nothing more than spit on a door handle or a sneeze in
the subway.

But 'journalists' like you are complaining about the 
'media crying wolf'?
Now, there is a definition of a moronic journalist imbecile.

Maybe you should go work in China and help the government 
keep things quiet. At least until the next elections or
the next trade meeting in Guandong.
Come back and help Bush with the same efforts.

In the mean time you should demand cuts in the minimum wage,
no payed sick leave and no payed emergency family leave. You 
have to make it easier for the virus to spread and force sick 
workers to come to work to spread it!


__________
ABSTRACT - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that death
 rate from influenza rose markedly in 1990's because greater proportion of
 population is elderly and thus particularly susceptible to flu; says odds that
 virus will kill a person of any particular age did not change; notes that just 65
 percent to 67 percent of people 65 and older are immunized (M) The death
 rate from influenza rose markedly in the 1990's, federal scientists reported
 yesterday. The explanation, they said, is that a greater proportion of the
 population is elderly and thus particularly susceptible to flu. 

 There was an average of 36,000 flu deaths a year in the 1990's as compared
 to 20,000 a year in previous decades, the investigators, from the Centers for
 Disease Control and Prevention, reported in a paper being published today in
 the Journal of the American Medical Association.