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To: JasonC
They aren't dying of it in Mexico either.

So, tell me why Mexico City is on a virtual lock down? Do you know how large that city is?

73 posted on 04/27/2009 9:25:46 AM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Windflier
Hysteria. Seen it "n" times before.

People are overreacting to 149 deaths from pneumonia brought on by flu, in a city of 23 million people (metro area). The "high mortality rate" claims around 6% are based on the notion that only a few thousand have it, which is ludicruous on its face. That implies an infected rate of 0.01% (one in ten thousand). If as is miore likely it it more like 1% of the population, then the mortality is 0.06%. Utterly normal, and explains perfectly why no deaths have been seen anywhere else, since the number affected is so small.

Mexico city has a fifth of the entire country population. There are half a million deaths annually in the country, thus around 100,000 a year in the city, which is 275 per day. Normally, because the sun came up. The scare is now in its 4th day - 1100 people died in Mexico city for reasons having nothing to do with any of this in the same time period.

75 posted on 04/27/2009 1:41:12 PM PDT by JasonC
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