Reply to: 22 million people are going to die soon

[suityou01]

Shut it and get your down to the party. Bring some cake.

You are, indeed, absolutely correct sir.

[realityhack]

Oh come on, take the bait

Shut it and get your down to the party. Bring some cake.

[suityou01]

You are, indeed, absolutely correct sir.

Oh come on, take the bait

[realityhack]

Are you sure these are morbidity rates? These look like mortality rates to me.

You are, indeed, absolutely correct sir.

[suityou01]

No idea, but I lifted it straight from the Beeb website as percentage of deaths against confirmed infections.

Skewed as most of the deaths are in or near Mexico, or of people who contracted the virus in Mexico.

Morbidity rates (assuming these are correctly diagnosed cases of A(H1N1) and accurately ascribed post-mortems) as follows:

Mexico 2.72%
Costa Rica 12.5%
US 0.12%
Canada 0.3%
Rest of World 0%

Total 1.16%

Are you sure these are morbidity rates? These look like mortality rates to me.

[sasguru]

How many random people do you reckon I would have to snog before I get A(H1N1)?

Theory being that I'd contract the milder strain of the virus before any possible outbreak of a more aggressive strain, and have the antibodies that may ensure my survival.

Or at least that would be my excuse anyway.

There is reliable news that AtW has H1N1. You could snog him

[Moscow Mule]

In the UK we have a 0.000108% infection rate, assuming (correctly) one only wants to snog members of the opposite sex (sorry Xen) that's 0.000054% of the population, or 32.5 women.

On the official figures that's 19 women (0.00057% of the female population) in London. To elevate my chances of catching this flu to, say, 10% I'd have to snog nearly 33,000 women in London.

Right, as soon as I get the all clear (Based on the above tenuous premise) with Mrs RH, I'd best get cracking...

OR

You could just go round to the house of any of the infected females (they've been on the news shouldn't be too hard to find them) and snog them...

[ASB]

Please feel free to correct my fag packet statistics, especially if I've underestimated the amount of women I have to snog.

Just hope to God Ann Widdicombe and Cherie Blair aren't in the required 33,000. Is it really worth the risk that they be? I'd rather take my chances with bubonic plague thank you.

[realityhack]

Please feel free to correct my fag packet statistics, especially if I've underestimated the amount of women I have to snog.

[realityhack]

In the UK we have a 0.000108% infection rate, assuming (correctly) one only wants to snog members of the opposite sex (sorry Xen) that's 0.000054% of the population, or 32.5 women.

On the official figures that's 19 women (0.00057% of the female population) in London. To elevate my chances of catching this flu to, say, 10% I'd have to snog nearly 33,000 women in London.

Right, as soon as I get the all clear (Based on the above tenuous premise) with Mrs RH, I'd best get cracking...

[TimberWolf]

No idea, but I lifted it straight from the Beeb website as percentage of deaths against confirmed infections.

Skewed as most of the deaths are in or near Mexico, or of people who contracted the virus in Mexico.

Morbidity rates (assuming these are correctly diagnosed cases of A(H1N1) and accurately ascribed post-mortems) as follows:

Mexico 2.72%
Costa Rica 12.5%
US 0.12%
Canada 0.3%
Rest of World 0%

Total 1.16%

How many had the sniffles and ignored it though? It's possible figures are skewed by people showing up in hospitals/vets and only the worst or dead ones being tested for pig flu. Does everyone that contracts flu get swine checked?

[PRC1964]

How many random people do you reckon I would have to snog before I get A(H1N1)?

Theory being that I'd contract the milder strain of the virus before any possible outbreak of a more aggressive strain, and have the antibodies that may ensure my survival.

Or at least that would be my excuse anyway.

Just one. But it would have to be the right one.

[realityhack]

How many random people do you reckon I would have to snog before I get A(H1N1)?

Theory being that I'd contract the milder strain of the virus before any possible outbreak of a more aggressive strain, and have the antibodies that may ensure my survival.

Or at least that would be my excuse anyway.

[cailin maith]

This (believe it or not) is more interesting.

Pan?

Kettle?

Black?

Those three words ring any bells?

I am working... I am a woman - I can multi-task!

[Churchill]

Well go and do some bloody work then!!

Pan?

Kettle?

Black?

Those three words ring any bells?