No, you're definitely not the only one.
Problem is, when you get to be a senior citizen, functioning equipment is
more a concern than what size it is! :-)
And, yeah, "offers" for that wonder drug are in the spam too.
--Rocket J. Squirrel
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Babcock" <BillB@bnj.com>
To: "'Randall Young'" <ryoung@navcomtech.com>; <fot@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2003 2:01 PM
Subject: RE: Another Perpsective On SARs Situation In Toronto From W.H.O.
> You're probably more likely to die from trying any of the hundreds of
> "equipment" enlargement offers I get by email each day. By the way, am I
> the only one getting these? Did the word get out somehow that I'm an
> appropriate target?
>
> Actually, a 6% mortality rate from a highly infectious disease is fairly
> horrific, especially since the specific fatalities seem very
> random--healthy, robust people have died as well as the chronically
> sickly.
>
> If you did a statistical probability scatter chart on the RELATIVE
> likelihood of infection you'd likely find anything more than 50 miles from
> an infection locus for anything but airborne agents was indistinguishable
> from 500 miles. It's that old "square of the distance" denominator for
> point sources. All the same, if you're the one that stops the meteor, the
> statistics don't matter much.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Randall Young [mailto:ryoung@navcomtech.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2003 11:03 AM
> To: fot@autox.team.net
> Subject: RE: Another Perpsective On SARs Situation In Toronto From W.H.O.
>
>
> > The following are excerpts from news coverage on AOL. It seems to
> > suggest that the situation in Toronto is different than the CDC
> > announcment in that the cases are not limited to health care workers.
>
> Except that the CDC announcement didn't say it was limited to health care
> workers. From http://www.cdc.gov/travel/other/sars_can.htm
> >>>
> SARS transmission in Toronto has been limited to a small number of
> hospitals, households, and specific community settings. As an example of
> the latter, SARS has been documented among some members of a religious
> community who attended a large gathering in Toronto in late March. <<<
>
> And for those who like to get their news from the horse's mouth, the WHO
> SARS page is at http://www.who.int/csr/sars/en/
>
> But don't forget, statistically you're still more likely to die from the
> 'flu' than from SARS ...
>
> Randall
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