🚀 go-pugleaf

Why, just driving down market street last night, I saw eight
to ten of them keel over - don't have a completely accurate
count 'cause I was trying not to run over the thousands of
pedestrians out there at 10PM. :) 

mr. baltim - 

others spew, your write.  interestingly, about twenty years
ago, i was an english teacher.  i learned that one thing is
extremely hard to do: teaching people in the category called
"dull normal IQ" to include any specifics in their writing. 
reason was this: they're completely functional, but their
their minds have a damnably difficult time relating the
specific to the general.     

looks like the problem is alive and well.

yours truly

baltim wrote:
> 
> Blah blah blah blah blah
> 
> Nothing like a little alarmist spew..............
> 
> You want to be alarmed about something?
> 
> Be alarmed about the people dying on our city streets night after
> night, or would that be stupid of us folks.
> 
> On Mon, 02 Oct 2000 03:18:57 GMT, Michael Flinn
> <ctatraining@wwbgn.com> wrote:
> 
> >It's amazing how stupid folks are.  You're looking at a
> >disease that within the next five years will be killing a
> >couple thousand people a year in the tristate area.  When you
> >multiply that across the country, you're looking at something
> >that will kill lots more than drunk drivers, yet I"d wager
> >you'd all be so upset, so disturbed, so indignant, soooo
> >righteous if someone said that deaths from drunk drivers was
> >simply a media scare.
> >Yet west nile is, very probably, far more serious.  If you
> >think that there exists anything like effective mosquito
> >control - or disease control- in the US, you are effectively
> >illiterate.
> >
> >Mike
> >
> >essex wrote:
> >>
> >> baltim wrote:
> >>
> >> > The mosquito spraying Baltimore is engaged in is more to ease the mind
> >> > of the citizens than anything else. The temperature is dropping so the
> >> > bugs will be irrelevant soon.
> >>
> >> Irrelevant until next year, that is. The WN virus is more widespread in
> >> 2000 than it was in 1999. It is reasonable to speculate that the virus
> >> will continue to spread unless mosquito control is effective in halting
> >> it. While panic on anyone's part would be a wild overreaction, it is
> >> appropriate for public health authorities to be concerned and to take
> >> action, and it is appropriate for the public to pay attention.
> >>
> >> --Steve