Sand wrote:
Also, eliminating social interaction is not a solution to communicable diseases. With all that fantastic excess of intellect I am sure you can do better than infantile simplistic idiocies.
Yes it is. Without communication, communicable disease cannot happen. Unfortunately the "cure" is worse than the disease.
I brought this up merely to show that getting the flu is neither inevitable nor necessary. Getting the flu is happenstantial just like being in an auto accident. Hence comparing death rates due to flu with death rates due to auto accidents makes perfectly good sense.
As I pointed out we do not get into a panic over auto accidents. So why get into a panic over the flu. There are steps we can take to lower the probability of contracting the disease, just as there are steps we can take to lower the probability of being killed in an auto accident. In the latter case, belting up and having air bags is a good first step. Also driving a car that is built like a tank would help.
ruveyn
22 Sep 2009, 5:52 am
