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Re: Bird Flu?
Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 12:25 am
by Steve R
(Same with thanks - it's just thanks, not thank's)
Re: Bird Flu?
Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 4:45 am
by Jacques
To be fayre Steve, the problem (witch has been raysed before) is the BGAFD aunti-spell checker.
It matters not what you right, as soon as you hit post, it ballses' it all up for you.
Re: Bird Flu?
Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 5:06 am
by Steve R
LLO!
Re: Bird Flu?
Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2006 3:48 am
by Flat_Eric
diplodocus wrote:
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... and let's not forget "Mad Cow Disease" either: Dire warnings in the mid '90s of an imminent catastrophe with tens of thousands sick and dead within 10 years. And what happens? Ten years later and only 116 fatalities as a result of CJD. And because the predicted mass death has failed to materialise, the boffins keep extending the incubation period, first from 10 years to 20 years .... then to 30 years.... and now they're saying its 50 years.
Absolutely tragic for those 116 and their families, for sure. But on the grand scale of things, hardly a global (or even national) calamity.
The mass outbreak of AIDS within the heterosexual population that was predicted in the mid to late '80s has also failed to materialise as well: Remember all those dire warnings in the media and from no less a body than the RCN that "by the early '90s, every family in the UK will have been touched by AIDS" - and the accompanying "Icebergs and Tombstones" advertising campaign on TV and roadside billboards? And yet it just hasn't happened in the West on anything remotely resembling the scale predicted.
Call me cynical, but it seems to me that the media and the politicians aren't happy unless they have some new big medical scare story to try and terrify the hoi polloi with every few years.