On 6/23/2011 16:07, clipka wrote:
> 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?

Yes. But *my* point is that perhaps it's exactly *in* proportion.

For another example, would Y2K problems have been as trivial as they were 
had not everyone in a panic a few years earlier and fixed all the systems?

So few people are killed by SARS because so many people are afraid of it 
that they avoid SARS like the plague (to make a silly metaphor). If nobody 
cared about catching SARS, maybe it would have been much more wide-spread, 
just like bird flu is much more widespread amongst birds.

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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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    driving without turn signals."

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