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Damn it. Someone spotted my typing mistake in a post about typing mistakes. There goes any impression I had made of being intelligent.
Should have read Asian Bird Flu. The article in the Guardian was written by a Proffesor of Economics I believe, and he obviously did not consult either a Doctor or Biologist. He took a fatality rate of 70% to imply that if Asian Bird Flu broke out in the UK tomorrow, 70% of us would die. What it means is that 70% of those INFECTED will die, which brings the number of dead down a whole bunch. Especially if the government and emergency services do their job properly (Which is open to debate).
Still quite a scary possibility though.
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quote:"I don't actually write for the Guardian so much as fix their PC's!"
Yes, but I wanted to hear it from her.
-------------------- Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering. -Aeschylus, Agamemnon
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