Sars A Red Herring.

by Englishman 17 Replies latest jw friends

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  Simon

  I think that russian is a nut. Let's take one comment and debunk it:

  he thought the pneumonia was man-made because "there is no vaccine for this virus, its make-up is unclear, it has not been very widespread and the population is not immune to it."

  By that reasoning, Spanish Flu must have been man-made too ... and every virus we've ever had prior to that.

  Most of the other things that have been mentioned are risks associated with living, such as driving, or lifestyle such as heart disease that we can do something about to a certain extent.

  Others like cancer are more 'long-term' - you don't suddenly catch cancer off someone else and drop dead a week later.
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  Gopher

  Yeah the first Russian "expert" quoted wasn't very convincing.

  But the next one may be onto something (or "on something"???). If he's right, then this SARS virus could only have been man-made:

  :The virus, according to academy of medecine member Sergei Kolesnikov, is a cocktail of mumps and measles, whose mix could never appear in nature.

  :"We can only get that in a laboratory," he told a conference....
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  Pleasuredome

  simon, you'd beter go and buy a respirator.
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  Englishman

  Simon said: (Sorry, no icons, so I can't put this in a "quote box".) If it kills 1 in 7 and is fairly virulent then it's pretty dramatic stuff ! Yes indeed, but that is potential and not a situation that we have right now. A situation that we have right now is that 1 in 2 smokers will kill themselves with their addiction, yet they sit at a bar puffing away worrying about the Sars thing. What's worrying people is the "Unknown factor", stuff they're familiar with like lung cancer they can cope with. Englishman.
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  searchfothetruth

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  gitasatsangha

  Odds are better that you will get lung cancer, if you smoke, but probably not tomorrow. World infrastructure is sort of designed to handle these events.

  We're going to have a 100% mortality rate no matter what, but SARS has the capability to be another Spanish Flu. That is a big deal, which is why its important that it is handled quickly.
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  Pleasuredome

  just thinking about authorities being ready to cope with sars....

  did anyone here in england see the panorama programme that showed that the government knew of foot & mouth before the outbrake, as they were contacting surpliers for the materials needed to cope with F&M? did tony blair have a crystal ball? if this was the case in england with F&M, who's to say that sars wasnt at least known about before it got going, if not started by the powers that be?
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  searchfothetruth

  Pleasuredome,

  At the height of the foot and mouth crisis, I was staying up in a place called Ponteland, near Newcastle. I met a vet at the hotel who was working for DEFRA, the government agency for controlling the outbreak.

  The news was that the out-break had started at a farm nearby and they were up, checking out the farm.

  He told me a few interesting things.

  ~ That the infected animals will recover all by themselves within a 3-4 week period, with no bad effects from the disease, they would just be unsellable.

  ~ That burning them on pires only enhances the risk of spreading the spores for miles on the wind.

  ~ And his take was that the governmented just wanted to kill off a lot of the small farmers livelyhoods, so the production of food could be controlled in larger farms.

  ~ The vet fees for these small farmers with maybe 50 sheep where the same as for a farmer with 1000 sheep.