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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