04-02-2003, 07:10 AM
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we'll miss you our friend. RIP
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Location: Fernie, BC
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Originally posted by LadyMischief
More people die of cancer, more people contract AIDS, more people contract much more deadly diseases EVERY MINUTE than people are contracting SARS WORLDWIDE every DAY, hell, every WEEK. It's been blown out of proportion because of the media attention it's recieving. The same thing happened with Hantavirus a few years ago.. yet Hantavirus is still around.. it's not a worldwide epidemic...it's still ten times more virulant than SARS. It's still even easier to GET. It's just not new "news" anymore. My daughter contracted SARS and is ok now.. (my son contracted it to a lesser degree and was much less sick). The mortality rate is less than 5% worldwide. I'm not trying to downplay it, but it REALLY is not worth the total and complete panic people are feeling. Hell, it's not nearly as deadly as the black plague, that wiped out pretty much everyone who contracted it, entire families at a time. SARS is scary, sure, but not nearly as scary as a lot of what's out there. Ever taken a close look at what Ebola does to a person? It basically melts you from the inside out.. Your internal organs liquify.. your eyes and skin bleed, and you feel every agonizing second of it. Almost NOBODY survives Ebola. Relatively few (generally speaking) die of SARS. Those who do generally have degraded immune systems already.
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uh,
(1) this is brand new.
(2) it's spreading fairly quickly.
comparing it to established infections is almost completely useless... |
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