Cary,
I hope you make it, whether you fly or drive.
I will be there....and I am going to go to the UK in May. I will not let SARS
or Terrorists determine my flight plan, anywhere.
But no one has ever accused me of having good sense. It goes with the
territory of racing a Triumph, I guess.
And I should have never taken that chairlift to the top of Copper Mountain
last week, after a 20 year hiatus from skiing, but I did. (Talk about out of
control on the first run) Six decades of Aging Bones, or not, I am glad I did.
See you in Mosport.
> Don
>
> While I agree with the fact that the present situation seems to be
> low
> risk, I do feel obligated to take exception to the analogy to the common
> cold.
>
> Almost everyone in North America experiences at least one or more
> colds per year, so the death rate of even 10,000 would be less than 1 in at
> least 25,000 based a population of at least 250,000,000 people. If my math
> is
> right it would be lower than .004% mortality based on 10,000 deaths.
>
> The SARA virus, based on 5.9% mortality, with the same exposure in
> North America (250 million people) would theoretically produce about 15
> million deaths. Hopefully this will put into perspective why there is such
> concern over this virus.
>
> However, I do share your opinion that the situation, at the present,
> appears to be contained. And that I would prefer to be driving rather than
> flying to Toronto. Further, by June, it might be the US citzens who are
> banned from coming into Canada because of outbreaks here in the states.
>
> Cary
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