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Typical Jackass...now there is a case of the kettle.

My point was to identify the hysteria, and separate the degree and extent of the issue.

1. Mexico is a third-world county and essentially none of their transmissable illness public health challenges are relatable to US.

2. Transmittable disease is a fairly minor percent of mortality (8th 2.6% of mortality) in the US, and dwarfed by aggregate aging-associated mortaility, genetics, and bad diet choices (1-7 71.3%).

Mortality from transmittable disease is largely associated with poverty (access to medical care/etc.), old-age (something has to kill you), unsafe sex, and crappy hospital care (nosocomial infections).

I have the 05 data: 173k people died of accidents, ranked 5th. 75k People died of diabetes; and, 6 deaths by malaria, 47 from syphilis, and 648 from TB. We aren't calling any of those an epidemic. Let's raise the mass media scare flag when we exceed the baseline. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr56/nvsr56_10.pdf

 

I have to disagree with point 1. When you share a border with another country and that border is porous then their illness problems are your potential illness problems.

 

Let me clarify. They didn't even do a followup with the family at patient 1 or the town of origin. We can stop this relatively easily, with source control, education, and tamiflu.

As far as border management. We have none. And, it would still be relatively ineffective because of the latent period and asymptomatic carriers.

And, we will always have epidemics, internal or externally derived. Mexico is a minor incubator compared to SE Asia.

My grievance is with the crisis mentality. Americans stop eating crappy food and exercise, and don't worry about being hit by meteorites.

 

Oh Shit, Meteorites...

 

Yeah - a .38 ain't much help with that!

I'm more worried about stray comets - much higher velocity.

edit - I ain't all that worried about meteorites; it's the meteoroids that scare me.

 

They put up a sign in the bathroom today that tells you how to properly wash your hands.

 

It would be nice if half the asshats around here would wash at all.



Maybe some swine flu will motivate them

 

If I knew it was gonna be that kinda party. . .

 

You sir are completely right, -oids it is (I thought the name change was once it entered the atm, turns out it is once it hits).

I always wondered about the statistical chances of death from impact, since it is a highly rare event. Just a probability.