From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Sun Mar 30 2003 - 02:51:12 MST
I've kind of lost the authorship here -- being some combination
of Karen, Rafal and Harvey... At any rate:
> > > I am still not convinced we are in great danger. Ebola and West
> > > Nile virus also looked bad but never panned out as pandemics.
But those tended to be blood transmitted viruses -- not respiratory
transmitted viruses.
> > However, it should be noted that the death rate for
> > this virus is about 3.5%, which is actually less than regular influenza.
The question becomes given the small numbers of extropians and/or transhumanists
is one comfortable losing 3.5% of them?!?
I personally am not.
Robert
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