04-27-2009, 11:33 AM
Underestimating? I doubt it. I'm the undertakers kid that grew up talking to pathologists.
Anybody else buy 100 lbs of rice this morning at Walmart? Just in case you needed to take a vacation from other people suddenly? I did, and I'd suggest it's worth thinking about just in case all of a sudden there's 30 cases in Hilo and you might want to keep your kids home for a week or two.
But I drive very defensively too. And I stay off the road after dark as a matter of principle.
My observation being the Spanish Flu pandemic killed estimated 20 million people world wide in a population of 2 billion estimated, world wide. We face all sorts of fatal risks on that kind of statistical scale, many of which we're far too tolerant of. It's a matter of sensible perspective.
It's also worth considering and a cruel irony that "local" people who share genetic material with each other are always the hardest hit. Since I've no relations on the island I'm at much lower risk than many. If you get "innoculated" by a family member or someone with shared genetics you're much much less likely to manifest real resistance.
Anybody else buy 100 lbs of rice this morning at Walmart? Just in case you needed to take a vacation from other people suddenly? I did, and I'd suggest it's worth thinking about just in case all of a sudden there's 30 cases in Hilo and you might want to keep your kids home for a week or two.
But I drive very defensively too. And I stay off the road after dark as a matter of principle.
My observation being the Spanish Flu pandemic killed estimated 20 million people world wide in a population of 2 billion estimated, world wide. We face all sorts of fatal risks on that kind of statistical scale, many of which we're far too tolerant of. It's a matter of sensible perspective.
It's also worth considering and a cruel irony that "local" people who share genetic material with each other are always the hardest hit. Since I've no relations on the island I'm at much lower risk than many. If you get "innoculated" by a family member or someone with shared genetics you're much much less likely to manifest real resistance.