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Title: Are you scared of SARS?
Post by: hawk220 on April 18, 2003, 09:39:11 AM: it looks like the SARS problem will get much worse before it gets better. I think its going to get pretty hairy worldwide as it seems to be an airborne virus. Everyday there are more and more cases. anyone have firsthand experience with this problem?
Title: Are you scared of SARS?
Post by: Curval on April 18, 2003, 11:13:46 AM: I sure was scared that I had a first hand experience with it when my son came down with pnemonia a couple of weeks ago. Fortunately he recovered and the anti-biotics worked, signaling that he was not infected with a viral pnemonia...it must have been bacterial.

Scary as hell watching him struggle to breath...multiply that by a billion or so when SARS is involved...you cannot yet treat the cause of SARS, only the symptoms. You just have to pray that the person doesn't drown in fluids built up in the lungs.
Title: Are you scared of SARS?
Post by: OIO on April 18, 2003, 11:36:11 AM: We got some doomsday hippies quoting Nostradamus and the Bible.. something about plagues and war with islamists.

Fun stuff, really.
Title: Are you scared of SARS?
Post by: Wilfrid on April 18, 2003, 12:05:34 PM: Planet population: 6 billion

Official SARS death toll: under 200

Media frenzy: You decide
Title: Are you scared of SARS?
Post by: midnight Target on April 18, 2003, 12:14:22 PM: Media frenzy is right.

Lack of personal hygien has been the major cause of the spread.... poor plumbing in an apartment building.
Title: Are you scared of SARS?
Post by: vorticon on April 18, 2003, 12:14:50 PM: wilfred is right...more people die of the flu than sars as of yet...i know a kid at school who got pneumonia right before the sars outbreak...came back to school and jokingly said that the docter siad: "tkae this pi;ll every hour take this one before bed take this one IN bed and give this one to your bed..."
Title: Are you scared of SARS?
Post by: Fishu on April 18, 2003, 12:26:56 PM: Theres lots of other things to be afraid of.

Like slipping on the ice, beware of the cars, sudden health problems, other diseases, your home...

If I would have to be scared of SARS, how could I live with rest of the life threatening issues, which are far more likely to happen?

It's pretty much "**** happens" when something happens.. theres not much you can do.
Title: Are you scared of SARS?
Post by: rc51 on April 18, 2003, 01:37:49 PM: more afraid of my dogs Farts.
Title: Are you scared of SARS?
Post by: Sixpence on April 18, 2003, 01:59:46 PM: I've got health ins , i'm more afraid of enemployment.
Title: Are you scared of SARS?
Post by: Dingbat on April 18, 2003, 02:06:04 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Sixpence
I've got health ins , i'm more afraid of enemployment.

enemaployment?
Title: Are you scared of SARS?
Post by: Sixpence on April 18, 2003, 02:46:29 PM: lol, my bad
Title: Are you scared of SARS?
Post by: Karnak on April 18, 2003, 03:04:54 PM: No.
Title: Are you scared of SARS?
Post by: Mickey1992 on April 18, 2003, 03:51:11 PM: More people are killed in/by cars in the US in one day (ok, 2 days really) than have died from SARS since its discovery. I am more worried about my drive home from work.
Title: Are you scared of SARS?
Post by: eskimo2 on April 18, 2003, 04:00:09 PM: No.

But I think that the big issue with SARS is not what it has done, but what it could do. It sounds like it has the potential to be the black plague of the new melinium. Perhaps it's media hype, but then again lots of new diseses apear every year, most don't make the news. This one did. Governments are reacting to it like it could be very dangerous. It may kill a lot of folks before its done...

In the long run though, its just one more thing that can kill us.

eskimo
Title: Are you scared of SARS?
Post by: Hortlund on April 18, 2003, 04:58:09 PM: If it reaches africa, or India...

Lethality is 3-4% for people that get intensive care. It is not 3-4% for people that dont get intensive care.

Its been roaming through China since November. My bet is the Chinese government is sitting on a pretty huge cover up right now.
Title: Are you scared of SARS?
Post by: Toad on April 18, 2003, 11:35:30 PM: Hortlund, stand up, face the wall, put your hands against the wall, spread your feet.

Ignore the sound of the black helicopters and go along with the nice men peacefully.

Can't have you bleating out the secrets of PNAC concerning covert CIA operations in China, now can we?
Title: Are you scared of SARS?
Post by: GRUNHERZ on April 18, 2003, 11:54:35 PM: Yes PNAC is the new evil secret shadow government! They are responsible for evertything, they run the economy, the media, the minds of those without tinfoil protective devices, and they personally flew the custom Boeing 757 shaped cruise missles into the pentagon.
Title: Are you scared of SARS?
Post by: Toad on April 19, 2003, 09:10:14 AM: Grun, the coolest part is the new PNAC mind control transmitter. Flip it on, think of the next item in the PNAC agenda and a majority of both house of Congress will do PNAC's bidding without a murmur of opposition.

So, you see... resistance IS futile. PNAC can make Congress do it's bidding with the New American Century Thought Enslavement Generator.

Bill Kristol dons the transmitter helmet, thinks "US invades Syria" and voila!

Congressional resolution to invade Syria passed within 15 minutes.

You'll be seeing a lot more of this stuff; the takeover is almost complete.
Title: Are you scared of SARS?
Post by: Dowding on April 19, 2003, 09:12:49 AM: What is PNAC? And why is everybody starting to sound like Grunherz?
Title: Are you scared of SARS?
Post by: -tronski- on April 19, 2003, 10:00:58 AM: Quote
Originally posted by Dowding
What is PNAC? And why is everybody starting to sound like Grunherz?

I was thinking that too (mostly the PNAC)

Tronsky