Or that we generally don't die from the common flu. While that isn't the case with this. It might turn out to be a SARS thing (sureal, and scary, but we made a vacine).
On Sat, Feb 15, 2020 at 4:09 PM Russell Standish <[email protected]> wrote: > Flu is already pandemic. COVID-19 looks like it will go pandemic, but > maybe quarantine will buy us enough time for vaccine. COVID-19 has > twice the mortality of flu, but don't know how transmissible it is. I > currently get a bad flu about once every 5 years, and even then I'm > probably only confined to bed for a day or so. Must be hell for the > more vulnerable amongst us though. > > So, no - I'm not overly afraid of it, but it does have an impact on > everyday life (eg quarantine provisions are impacting this workshop > I'm running right now). > > Cheers > > On Sat, Feb 15, 2020 at 10:21:00AM -0700, Owen Densmore wrote: > > I'm reading an NYTimes piece on the Coronavirus containing: > > > > > > But one of the attendees, a public health student, had had enough. > > Exasperated, she rattled off a set of statistics. > > > > The virus had killed about 1,100 worldwide and infected around a > dozen in > > the United States. Alarming, but a much more common illness, > influenza, > > kills about 400,000 people every year, including 34,200 Americans > last flu > > season and 61,099 the year before. > > > > > > I had looked that up previously and was also puzzled .. Flu is way more > deadly > > .. those numbers are staggering. > > > > The article was less on the mortality rates etc but on: > > Coronavirus ‘Hits All the Hot Buttons’ for How We Misjudge Risk > > .. and goes on to explain the lopsided response. > > > > BTW: the Flu numbers were a wakeup call! I hope we all have one! > > > > -- Owen > > > > > ============================================================ > > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > > archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove > > > -- > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Dr Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) > Principal, High Performance Coders [email protected] > http://www.hpcoders.com.au > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC <http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/FRIAM-COMIC> > http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove >
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