From: Adrian Tymes (wingcat@pacbell.net)
Date: Mon May 12 2003 - 17:52:43 MDT
--- Harvey Newstrom <mail@HarveyNewstrom.com> wrote:
> Those who say this is a minor bug and won't do as
> much harm as existing
> pneumonias or malaria may be right, but there is no
> evidence of that either.
I calmly, humbly submit the existing, documented
infection and fatality rates as evidence. My view is
simple: what evidence there is supports only the view
that SARS is a minor disease. It is exceptional
mainly in the reactions the uninfected have had to it:
the amount of attention it has been getting, the
subsequent economic and political impact, the speed
with which it has been diagnosed and classified, and -
just to toss in a bright note - an example of the
speed with which virii (presumably including far more
fatal virii) can be sequenced these days when people
think it really matters.
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