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From: Flintstone GA
Originally Posted by INTJ,Apr 29 2009, 06:27 PM
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.
I always wondered about the statistical chances of death from impact, since it is a highly rare event. Just a probability.
But who knows? Maybe everything else on Earth turns to shit but we're left here
ing. I've imagined worse. 
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Originally Posted by INTJ,Apr 29 2009, 12:44 PM
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
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
and you still are failing to make that clear
as for the topic...
where's the "hysteria" ? I'm not experiencing it in my life, it's simply something to be aware of like any other infectious mumbo jumbo. your lack of concern for those who are already sick, and may be compromised by an illness such as this (or a combination of viruses such as a bird/swine flu combo mutation, which is a big concern for the WHO which could possibly be something akin to airborne AIDS, a virus which our body has no immunity to and hasn't ever seen before.... or not.... you can't predict the future, nor can I, but this is mostly side track cerebral nonsense), and your ability to reduce people's lives down to simple numbers as a means of making some irrelevent "point" on the ol' intertubes smacks of a person who does nothing but sit behind his computer looking down his nose at others. I don't know if that's the case, but it comes across that way to me.
a side observation about the 'hysteria'
humans (and all creatures, dogs and cats for example) crave novelty. I find it curious that this surprises you, since you appear to be such a large repository of intelligence. your 'hysteria' over this thread for example....
if your goal is to come in here, obfuscate the thread by 'imparting your wisdom' then you have succeeded.
and lastly, I maintain those health officials know more than you do. I live with someone day in and day out who's worked in over twenty countries, including *this* one, and she has FAR more REAL LIFE EXPERIENCE than you or I do. you will never be able to overcome that fact, no matter how many names you call me.
in my opinion, you'd achieve the same point by stopping your post after "jackass"
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Originally Posted by wicky,Apr 29 2009, 03:22 PM
okay, I still don't see and haven't seen since day 1 what your problem is with me, but you really should work it out. i wasn't being a jackass merely trying to understand what your aggressive and inflammatory aim was in here.
and you still are failing to make that clear
as for the topic...
where's the "hysteria" ? I'm not experiencing it in my life, it's simply something to be aware of like any other infectious mumbo jumbo. your lack of concern for those who are already sick, and may be compromised by an illness such as this (or a combination of viruses such as a bird/swine flu combo mutation, which is a big concern for the WHO which could possibly be something akin to airborne AIDS, a virus which our body has no immunity to and hasn't ever seen before.... or not.... you can't predict the future, nor can I, but this is mostly side track cerebral nonsense), and your ability to reduce people's lives down to simple numbers as a means of making some irrelevent "point" on the ol' intertubes smacks of a person who does nothing but sit behind his computer looking down his nose at others. I don't know if that's the case, but it comes across that way to me.
a side observation about the 'hysteria'
humans (and all creatures, dogs and cats for example) crave novelty. I find it curious that this surprises you, since you appear to be such a large repository of intelligence. your 'hysteria' over this thread for example....
if your goal is to come in here, obfuscate the thread by 'imparting your wisdom' then you have succeeded.
and lastly, I maintain those health officials know more than you do. I live with someone day in and day out who's worked in over twenty countries, including *this* one, and she has FAR more REAL LIFE EXPERIENCE than you or I do. you will never be able to overcome that fact, no matter how many names you call me.
in my opinion, you'd achieve the same point by stopping your post after "jackass"
and you still are failing to make that clear
as for the topic...
where's the "hysteria" ? I'm not experiencing it in my life, it's simply something to be aware of like any other infectious mumbo jumbo. your lack of concern for those who are already sick, and may be compromised by an illness such as this (or a combination of viruses such as a bird/swine flu combo mutation, which is a big concern for the WHO which could possibly be something akin to airborne AIDS, a virus which our body has no immunity to and hasn't ever seen before.... or not.... you can't predict the future, nor can I, but this is mostly side track cerebral nonsense), and your ability to reduce people's lives down to simple numbers as a means of making some irrelevent "point" on the ol' intertubes smacks of a person who does nothing but sit behind his computer looking down his nose at others. I don't know if that's the case, but it comes across that way to me.
a side observation about the 'hysteria'
humans (and all creatures, dogs and cats for example) crave novelty. I find it curious that this surprises you, since you appear to be such a large repository of intelligence. your 'hysteria' over this thread for example....
if your goal is to come in here, obfuscate the thread by 'imparting your wisdom' then you have succeeded.
and lastly, I maintain those health officials know more than you do. I live with someone day in and day out who's worked in over twenty countries, including *this* one, and she has FAR more REAL LIFE EXPERIENCE than you or I do. you will never be able to overcome that fact, no matter how many names you call me.
in my opinion, you'd achieve the same point by stopping your post after "jackass"
The latent homoeroticism is kinda funny though. . .
