On 6/23/2011 5:29, Invisible wrote:
> Number of people killed by bird flu: 303 world-wide in total.
> Number of people killed by SARS: 8,273 world-wide in total.
> Number of people killed by cars: 43,000 *per year* in the USA alone.
>
> How about we all go get some frigging perspective here? :-P

Well, one difference is that bird flu and SARS will continue to kill more 
and more people unless you do something about it, while cars tend to get 
safer over time.  Being afraid of natural disasters doesn't help much. Being 
afraid of self-replicating diseases does.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "Coding without comments is like
    driving without turn signals."

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