Am 23.06.2011 22:49, schrieb Darren New:
> On 6/23/2011 13:05, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>> On 23/06/2011 07:53 PM, Darren New wrote:
>>> On 6/23/2011 8:33, Invisible wrote:
>>>> 2. There's very little you can do about deadly diseases.
>>>
>>> Huh?
>>>
>>> What century do you live in? I live in the one after the invention of
>>> the germ theory of disease.
>>
>> SARS is a *viral* disease.
>
> Even more to my point. That's even more the reason to be more afraid of
> SARS than of cars. The only way to be safe from it is avoid it completely.
>
> Also, you've given no evidence that you don't have the causality
> backwards. People paniced about SARS and bird flu, and hence much fewer
> people caught it. People don't panic about cars, and hence many more
> people die. Thus, panic about a danger is a good thing. QED. ;-)

Wasn't that Andrew's point in the first place - that the ratio of panic 
about diseases vs. panic about cars is somewhat out of proportion?

QED indeed :-)

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