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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2020 16:34:33 GMT
Apparently Mr Xi said "we have a grave situation".
Not enough space for the bodies?
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Post by ianali on Jan 25, 2020 16:38:54 GMT
The mortality rate, at 5%, is lower than normal winter 'flu. Still, that's no excuse not to run about flapping like a fox in a headless chicken costume is it. I find it hard to believe that normal winter flu kills more than 5% of those infected? Are you sure?
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Post by Jim on Jan 25, 2020 16:40:10 GMT
The mortality rate, at 5%, is lower than normal winter 'flu. Still, that's no excuse not to run about flapping like a fox in a headless chicken costume is it. I find it hard to believe that normal winter flu kills more than 5% of those infected? Are you sure? Heard it on the radio this morning. Upwards of 8%. Go google.
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Post by JohnV on Jan 25, 2020 16:48:34 GMT
What, you mean you don't spend all day obsessively staring at the screen? Seeing as Mr Baillie is an academic type I would guess that his book goes 'introduction, evidence, conclusion'. And since there was a copy of it on Amazon for a penny plus post it seemed rude not to buy it. Being inherently lazy I may only read the last part... Also I had my wires crossed a bit, the Thera eruption is linked (by some) to the biblical exodus. some of the data re ice cores has been refined by latest data but the book still makes fascinating reading, the first part of the book is mostly bout dendro chronology and the work of building the long history by cross matching etc and is very interesting on it's own, He also shows his progression through other data because of the data shown by dendo chronology. another interesting read (although harder going than Mike Baillie's) is Clube and Napiers "Cosmic Winter"
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2020 16:48:54 GMT
The mortality rate, at 5%, is lower than normal winter 'flu. Still, that's no excuse not to run about flapping like a fox in a headless chicken costume is it. I find it hard to believe that normal winter flu kills more than 5% of those infected? Are you sure? Also SARS only hit a paltry 3% after all the hype.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2020 16:50:52 GMT
I was going to do a joke about it but chickened out.
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Post by ianali on Jan 25, 2020 16:56:32 GMT
I find it hard to believe that normal winter flu kills more than 5% of those infected? Are you sure? Heard it on the radio this morning. Upwards of 8%. Go google. A quick google gives average UK deaths due to flu each year as 600. So if that is 8% then that means that around 7,500 people get flu each year? What am I missing?
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Post by Jim on Jan 25, 2020 17:03:05 GMT
Heard it on the radio this morning. Upwards of 8%. Go google. A quick google gives average UK deaths due to flu each year as 600. So if that is 8% then that means that around 7,500 people get flu each year? What am I missing? Catching the flu? I'm entitled to jabs these days, as a registered carer for swmbo.
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Post by lollygagger on Jan 25, 2020 17:07:36 GMT
I had the flu once, it's nasty but I was young and healthy. I expect of the millions each year who "have flu", 99% have a bad cold.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2020 17:15:06 GMT
I had the flu once, it's nasty but I was young and healthy. I expect of the millions each year who "have flu", 99% have a bad cold. I had man flu once. Bedridden for about a month I finally staggered to the hospital for an X ray they told me it was pleurisy. I could see the shit all over my lungs in the imaging. It was a complication of CAP Pneumonia. Not ideal but I read somewhere that even if you don't go to the doctor you will eventually go to the doctor if you get CAP because at some stage you realise it is going to kill you. I was stubbornly believing it was a virus and my body would learn about it and improve the immune system. But it wasn't. It was bacterial which is what used to kill a lot of people before penicillin.
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Post by Jim on Jan 25, 2020 17:25:42 GMT
I suffer penicillin allergy, well, I did in my youth, can't take it now, apparently it could kill me.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2020 17:28:56 GMT
Too many commas.
You can't have five commas in one sentence.
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Post by bodger on Jan 25, 2020 17:31:48 GMT
see below
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Post by bodger on Jan 25, 2020 17:33:20 GMT
Heard it on the radio this morning. Upwards of 8%. Go google. A quick google gives average UK deaths due to flu each year as 600. So if that is 8% then that means that around 7,500 people get flu each year? What am I missing? While estimates of case-fatality (CF) rates for past influenza pandemics have ranged from about 0.1% (1957 and 1968 pandemics) to 2.5% (1918 pandemic).
However the official World Health Organization estimate for the (then current) outbreak of H5N1 avian influenza to date is around 60%. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_mortality_from_H5N1
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2020 17:42:52 GMT
I believe most people on here are immune from bird flu.
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