SWINE FLU: WE HAS IT
H1N1: Now available in Hong Kong.
Bad: They've sealed off the Metropark Hotel in Wan Chai where the guy was staying.
Good: The Cheung Chau Bun Festival tomorrow is still go!
So ... Am I worried? No. Here's why.
For those of you who don’t know, I was here when SARS broke out six years ago. It killed 299 people in this city alone and another 475 worldwide.
However ...
From what I can tell, H1N1 isn’t quite the nasty piece of work that SARS is. The SARS mortality rate was 9.6%. The H1N1 isn't anywhere close to that. At least not yet. So comparatively, I’m not all that concerned. So far.
Theoretically, I should be more concerned that Margaret Chan, who was our minister of health back then and got a lot of flak for how she handled the SARS crisis (i.e. too calmly), is now in charge of WHO.
And she seems rather calm, doesn’t she?
Still, what do you want - ZOMG hysterics like this?
Or perhaps the "Mexican Wetback Bioterrorism" theory?
Or the "Michele Bachmann Democrat Coincidence" theory?
I prefer the “Don’t Panic” approach, thanks.
I feel fine,
This is dF
Bad: They've sealed off the Metropark Hotel in Wan Chai where the guy was staying.
Good: The Cheung Chau Bun Festival tomorrow is still go!
So ... Am I worried? No. Here's why.
For those of you who don’t know, I was here when SARS broke out six years ago. It killed 299 people in this city alone and another 475 worldwide.
However ...
From what I can tell, H1N1 isn’t quite the nasty piece of work that SARS is. The SARS mortality rate was 9.6%. The H1N1 isn't anywhere close to that. At least not yet. So comparatively, I’m not all that concerned. So far.
Theoretically, I should be more concerned that Margaret Chan, who was our minister of health back then and got a lot of flak for how she handled the SARS crisis (i.e. too calmly), is now in charge of WHO.
And she seems rather calm, doesn’t she?
Still, what do you want - ZOMG hysterics like this?
Or perhaps the "Mexican Wetback Bioterrorism" theory?
Or the "Michele Bachmann Democrat Coincidence" theory?
I prefer the “Don’t Panic” approach, thanks.
I feel fine,
This is dF