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Originally posted by Loki
the final thing that i'd like to say is that your statistics are not really an accurate representation of the probabilty of getting SARS. For your stats to work, every person would have to have an equal chance of being infected, which is clearly not the case. (someone in America has a much much lower chance of being infected then someone in HK, for instance.)
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Right and that is sorta the point. Even with the unlikly hood of getting it even in hong kong, we are going crazy here in america. Why? Has there even been 1 reported case? I just went to the WHO wesbite. First headline is how the WHO has lifted the toronto travel advisory. Second headline? "More than 3000 children die each day due to malaria" Now what the fuck? Over 3000 A DAY? And here I am hearing about 435 in 2 months? 190 deaths since sars started in china. China has over 1 billion people in it. So in china, the center of the sars debate, your chances of dieing in the last two months was 1 in 5,263,157. About 4000 cases in china. Chances of getting infected.. 1 in 250,000. Yea you are right. I am going to be losing alot of sleep over SARs now.