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Old 04-28-2009, 03:09 AM
Deckard
issue 37
 
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: South Wales
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Re: bird flu from asia?
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Originally Posted by Dirty0900 View Post
1000+ cases, population of 25 million. Do the maths kidz.
Yup. The media routinely tell us 'X people are infected' or 'X people have died' but they almost always neglect to add '...out of Y population'. Although I guess even quoting the population figure would fail to quell the panic when the gut is being bombarded by images telling a more frightening story.

Sure this could turn into a major catastrophe, but lots of things could happen. Telling us something could happen tells us nothing.