04-27-2009, 09:55 AM
They brought the warning level to 4 just after the market closed.
Still, I'd say no panics. Even if the death rate from the pandemic was as high as the Spanish Flu the 'teens you're far more likely to die on the road here in Hawaii than you would be going to the grocery store and getting the flu. At that rate of mortality we'd expect about 20 fatalities on the Big Island. How many people were killed by pinheads driving drunk last year? 60 or so?
Still, I'd say no panics. Even if the death rate from the pandemic was as high as the Spanish Flu the 'teens you're far more likely to die on the road here in Hawaii than you would be going to the grocery store and getting the flu. At that rate of mortality we'd expect about 20 fatalities on the Big Island. How many people were killed by pinheads driving drunk last year? 60 or so?