From: Michael M. Butler (mmb@spies.com)
Date: Fri Mar 28 2003 - 01:00:36 MST
On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 15:35:08 +1030, Emlyn O'regan
<oregan.emlyn@healthsolve.com.au> wrote:
> I don't agree with this analysis.
>
>> There is a sense in which these super-viri and any medical,
>> environmental or other crisis are extropian.
...snip...
> Some extropians will not agree that international coordination is
> necessary
> (or desirable) to extropianism.
Humble observation follows.
I suspect that a great many hardy, smart people are not extropically SARS-
cautious day-to-day. I include myself, though I seek to change that.
The drill: wash (*SCRUB*, like a surgeon) your hands more, carry and use
alcohol wipes or one of the newer alcohol-containing evaporating goops
(especially on pay phones if you have to use them); try to break any habits
of touching your face, mouth, eyes and hair when you are out and haven't
washed up recently.
Me, I just bought some of the goop and need to transfer some of it to a
small squeeze bottle to carry whenever I'm out. One dime-sized dab per
application is what they say. That, and a good small $2.00 fingernail scrub
brush, are now part of my kit.
This regimen is projected by some health sources to reduce the risk of
simple rhinovirus infection by something like 70% or more. Maybe they're
right. One of the candidate organisms for SARS is mighty like a rhinovirus.
Verb. sap.; makes more sense than a gas mask to Yours Truly.
Apologies if I'm over my 8 for the day.
MMB
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