BBC news report latest bird flu death of an Indonesian boy this January.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6247109.stm

The world population today is over 6,679,000,000.

150 people worldwide have died from the bird flu.

This is not an epidemic, nor a pandemic. They are isolated incidents.

Sue

"My point was concerning some of the crazy ideas coming from that area, as well as other areas, such as: the Government convincing itself that the populace was so utterly helpless and ignorant that they, the Government, needed to spend tax dollars to remind people to do something that is second nature."

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Stretch, your opinion of people's basic nature is much higher than mine. I work in a hospital which just conducted a secret survey (they got nurses to put on civilian clothes to do it) on how often the doctors washed their hands between patients.

Would you care to guess what the washing rate was?

[color:"red"]It was 7%. [/color]

My God.

Bird flu is back in the news: http://urbansurvival.com/week.htm

Well I've just heard of Japan, Thailand, and Great Britian, -Though it may or may not come to turn the World considerably Upside Down, -Looks like the Thing is Back! (Not that it neccessarily ever even Left!). [color:"black"] [/color] [email]ScottRezaLogan[/email]

I liken this to the recent publication of the doom clock moving another minute toward midnight.

A person is smart, but people are stupid. I think that is an axiom we've cited here before.

You can publish anything and back it up with statistics and polls that mean nothing, but imply everything. Where a person would scrutinze such claims, people will accept it as gospel and based their actions and lifestyles accordingly.

The odds are people are going to die, regardless of whatever those in power can or will do. The ultimate result of living is dying, in two hundred years the how and when this generation perished won't mean much to those of that time, regardless of what you believe in.

I suppose ultimate survival inokes zero risk tolerance. Since that really doesn't have much bearing on the final outcome anyways, do any of us really want to live our lives to that standard?

Life requires balance Daniel-San. When I play cards, I decide what hand to put my chips behind and what hand to throw down and forget about. If I ddin't put chips behind something, then what's the point of playing the game?

The point is this: exercise due diligence, be smart about it, but don't live your life based on what you read in the papers. Take what's said with a grain of salt, and figure out for yourself what makes sense. Change is inevitable, sometimes violent. Everything worth doing has some risk in it. The outcome is always the same; sooner or later, all games come to an end.

Yes it's back. So is man-made global warming.

"...So is man-made global warming..."

Not a totally bad thing. I just read an article about Adak, in the Alutian Islands. It used to be the sixth largest city (by population) in Alaska. Then the military left, population is now 100. But all is not lost. They are working on becoming a major seaport, for over the top of the world shipping, by the end of this century, when the icecap is no more...

Please note the use of the words "man-made". Global warming is obviously ocurring and has been since the last iceage. Our noticing it (and harping about it...thanks algore, et al)) has nothing to do with its rate nor will it have any effect on it ceasing. Nor will anything we do or fail to do have a noticeable effect on said rate.

This question begs to be answered: When the last iceage ended, and "global warming" began to occur....What caused this warming? GM and Ford? British Petroleum and subsidiaries? Aerosol cans and freon?

Additionally, if and when there is no more ice in the Arctic, those that must have it will find an ever-increasing overabundance of it in the Antarctic.