Re: Bird Flu and this newsgroup


tg wrote:
> "Frank White" <fwhite@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1133237862.297190.158090@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >I find it somewhat funny that, even as we are facing a genuine
> > potential disaster, a possible pandemic that might kill millions and
> > disrupt society - the very sort of thing many of us have worried about
> > - almost all of the posts on this newsgroup are about politics, and
> > racism, and general raving lunacy.
>
> thats because bird flu obsessives come across as simply living in their own wet dream of armageddon. There's one word that is
> peppered all over bird flu discussions, and that's:
> 'if'
> if it goes H2H, if it does this, if it does that, it just goes on and on and it's BORING. So far loads talk and nothing has
> happened. And get this: nothing's gonna happen. So get off this ride and stop trying to busk everyone onto it. We want to discuss
> real live threats, not scenario's in your head.

You mean like IF there's a hurricane that collapses the dikes in New
Orleans, or IF terrorists fly planes
into skyscrapers, or IF someone mails anthrax filled letters to people;
you know, all the scenarios in
some folk's heads that everyone pooh-poohed as fiction... until they
actually happened?

That sort of thing?

FW

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