From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 24 14:07:42 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D55BC37B401 for ; Tue, 24 Jun 2003 14:07:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mta10.adelphia.net (mta10.adelphia.net [64.8.50.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B37843F75 for ; Tue, 24 Jun 2003 14:07:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com ([24.53.161.217]) by mta10.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.32 201-253-122-126-132-20030307) with ESMTP id <20030624210741.THJV1347.mta10.adelphia.net@potentialtech.com> for ; Tue, 24 Jun 2003 17:07:41 -0400 Message-ID: <3EF8BD9C.3080002@potentialtech.com> Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 17:07:40 -0400 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030429 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org References: <3EF88133.2279.3B170215@localhost> In-Reply-To: <3EF88133.2279.3B170215@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: SARS (was: anyone notice what os the #1 hosting provider is using?) X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 21:07:43 -0000 Dan Langille wrote: > On 24 Jun 2003 at 16:31, Bill Moran wrote: > >>Dan Langille wrote: >> >>>*cough* >> >>You might want to have that looked at ... wouldn't want it >>to turn into something serious (sars?) > > But seriously, with respect to Canada, how much press is SARS > getting? What impression are you being left with in terms of the > risks? Number of people infected? How the residents are reacting? If you're speaking to me, specifically: I live in Pennsylvania ... and I pay almost no attention to the mass media - I don't trust them. Ever since Sept 11th, when supposedly "reputable" media sources were spreading all manner of lies in the interest of "getting a scoop" I have refused to pay any attention to mass media. I did spend a few months researching the stories they reported after Sept 11th and I've come to the personal conclusion that any assertation by the media that they've researched the story they're reporting or that they have any clue what's actually going on is just another lie. So I don't have any opinion on the sars situation. I simply have heard people talk about it off and on, so I know enough that I figure it's a good topic to make tasteful jokes about (although I sometimes misjudge where the line is between tasteful and whatver other kind of jokes there are) I also do not trust mainstream medicine, who are the people babbling about sars to the media, and I do not fear disease the way some people do, since I've been lucky enough to be born with a somewhat stronger than average immune system. Since (from what I have heard) most of the people who seem to be dying from sars are in the "not in great health" category, I don't consider the disease a threat to me, personally. So, I guess I have heard some things, and I guess that's my opinion of what I've heard. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com