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Michael Fumento responds to those who are determined to believe that the "bird flu" spells the end of mankind.

Read the whole thing.

Quote: ..."Bottom line? We are all going to die. But from various causes. There probably will be another pandemic, but nobody knows when or what its origin will be. We do know that with every month that passes, we'll be better prepared. Unless the current panic, having failed to materialize, makes us overly complacent. That's a real possibility. In 1976, swine flu went from "next pandemic" to laugh line on Saturday Night Live in record time. And as for those anointed experts, public health officials, and reporters whose wall calendars always read "1918" – it's time to buy a new one."

Posted @ November 14, 2005 08:41 AM | Current Affairs

Comments

Heh.

The WORST case estimates that I've heard, and I'm talking foaming at the mouth here, are a couple of 100 million.

That's a boat load of people, for sure.


You could, almost, see the effect on a population of the world graph. There'd be a little downward tick one year.

Wake me when the threat is, say 10%, of world pop or something. Something that might usefully reduce population.

Posted by: Fred at November 19, 2005 08:37 PM