[Trust but Verify]

Oh, for crying out loud. Fuzzy math, internet conspiracy theories. What passes for journalism in some cases these days is pathetic.

"The sky is falling!"

"The sky is falling!"

"Everybody to get from streets!"

[TheBigB]

My own detailed research (which consists of reading newspapers) indicates that the death rate is actually 3,758.578% OHMIGOD EVEN PEOPLE WHO DON'T HAVE IT ARE GONNA DIE! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES! DUCT TAPE! DUCT TAPE!!

The SARS threads are great for laughs.

[ex-Texan]

From Wired News Report Quoting a Medical Expert and Professor at Harvard Medical School:

* * * "Mortality rates are usually calculated on patients whose outcome is known," said Dr. Henry Niman, a surgery instructor at the Harvard/Massachusetts General Hospital. "(The CDC's number) would be accurate only if all patients hospitalized survived, which has not been the history of the disease in the more heavily affected areas."

Instead, some say the rate should be calculated by dividing the number of deaths by the sum of the number of deaths plus the number of people who recovered, which would exclude those people who are still sick, resulting in a higher death rate.

According to Niman's math, the death rate in Hong Kong would be 25 percent, in Canada 21 percent, in Singapore 15 percent and in Vietnam 10 percent. * * *

"The sky is falling ...." may be correct -- according to medical experts.

When you have your credentials to teach at Harvard Medical School and actually do so . . . I guess you will have the right to attack the journalists at Wired News ...

[ContemptofCourt]

Yeah, I'll be you were laughing about Y2K, too.....and that wasn't very funny, was it? I mean, I'm sure that someone's computer crashed....

For all the pollyannies, go play at www.timebomb2000.com....you can scare each other over there.

[P.O.E.]

EGERMANCY! Everybody is gettingk from strit!

[handk]

"Everybody to get from streets!"

Fuzzy English.

[drew]

OK, I just have to 1)agree with you, and 2)compliment you on an obscure movie reference. Anyone who quotes "The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming!" is OK with me. OK, Whittaker Walt? Egermency!