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Thanks again for your good work.

Looks like you got the attention of a few freepers from the uninformed wing of conservatism. It appears they do not understand what a potential pandemic would look like in its early stages. Nor do they understand the means by which such a potential pandemic can be headed off. After all, the sun is shining today. Why should they prepare for winter?

Perhaps they will sing a less condescending tune when the hospitals in their own home towns are full, and their own loved ones cannot get the medical attention they need. For this is surely what will happen unless SARS is contained, we develop a vaccine, or we get lucky and it burns itself out.

Every year, 65 million people in the US get the flu. Half of them will seek medical treatment. Of those, 300 thousand are hospitalized. And 25,000 people die.

Thats about 0.04%

With SARS running at just over 2%, thats 50 times higher, giving over 1.25 million US deaths, assuming 65 million get it. Seems like if its something new, then nearly all of us will get it, making almost 6 million deaths....

And as hospitalization reaches 80%, thats a LOT of beds...

Not at all funny.

Posted because of the room 911, but now I'm thinking harder...