<< <i>"Being that Bush has taken this once great country and reduced it to being the biggest bunch of wusses I've ever seen, I'm willing to bet that the economy will collapse with the first death of a chicken in the U.S." >>
I don't like G.W.B. . But I can't see blaming him for "pussification". This started WAY before Bush.
(Old man) Look I had a lovely supper, and all I said to my wife was, “That piece of halibut was good enough for Jehovah”.
(Priest) BLASPHEMY he said it again, did you hear him?
People will panic, bird hating will set in and Congress will be forced to remove the eagle from the reverse. This will leave the Mint with a bit of problem and it will come up with a replacement. Of course it will take the opportunity to spawn another collectable series, 'Cousins of First Ladies' which will sell for 50.00 each in the Zinc Clad Aluminun 1/2 dollar size.
<< <i>The actual number of cases to July is around 229 cases with 113 deaths..mostly infants and elderly in third world countries. >>
OK, lets look at some crude math.
113/229 is about a 49% mortality rate.
Since most of these cases occured in rural asia, the best medical treatment was unavailable.
So lets cut the mortality rate in half again as it applies to the US healthcare system. We have lots of drugs and hospitals. Only 25% mortality in US.
But wait, numbers like this would completely overwhelm our healthcare system, and just not enuff amantadine to go around--- back up to 40%.
And when you get a bug like this into crowded cities as opposed to rural area, the infection rate really blasts off!
Even if my numbers are way overblown and it's only 10% as bad as all that, your looking at 4% of the earths human population dying off. (Bad for us, good for Mother Earth)
Have a nice weekend!
"Wars are really ugly! They're dirty and they're cold. I don't want nobody to shoot me in the foxhole." Mary
After reading this thread I suddenly have a craving for KFC... dunno why... lunch time I guess...
<< <i> People will panic, bird hating will set in and Congress will be forced to remove the eagle from the reverse. >>
Post avian apocalypse, Congress will also mandate that both sides of coins should bear the ugly mugs of dead politicians. And that's what'll really kill off coin collecting as a hobby.
Since most of these cases occured in rural asia, the best medical treatment was unavailable.
So lets cut the mortality rate in half again as it applies to the US healthcare system. We have lots of drugs and hospitals. Only 25% mortality in US.
But wait, numbers like this would completely overwhelm our healthcare system, and just not enuff amantadine to go around--- back up to 40%.
And when you get a bug like this into crowded cities as opposed to rural area, the infection rate really blasts off!
Even if my numbers are way overblown and it's only 10% as bad as all that, your looking at 4% of the earths human population dying off. (Bad for us, good for Mother Earth)"
Your math is way too crude.....You never even factored the CHANCES of even getting it. In these countries with BILLIONS......yes BILLIONS of people living in them with deplorable health condtions, only 229 people over the WORLD have gotten it....you have a better chance of getting stuck by lightning three times...sheesh......
The numbers I threw out there are based on the hypothetical (albeit quite likely) H1N5 virus aquiring the ability to be passed from human to human. Sorry if I didn't make that clear.
In it's present form (bird to human transmission) it is almost no risk to humans other than those in the poultry industry.
"Wars are really ugly! They're dirty and they're cold. I don't want nobody to shoot me in the foxhole." Mary
I think we should prepare for Y3K when all the computer systems will cease to operate and planes will fall from the sky. 994 years will fly by and we will be caught unprepared
Bird flu, alien invasion, the Mayan calendar runs out, giant radioactive mutant squirrels overrun the earth... eh, whatever.
If a major catastrophe strikes the USA, or the world, and my family is involved, I'm sure my hobbies, passionate though I may be about them, will have to take a back seat until the priorities are dealt with.
Until then, I'm gonna continue on as I am, and have as much fun as I possibly can.
Edit to add: Y2K was the last "doom and gloom" scenario I bought into (albeit only a tiny bit, with much skepticism). When all that came to naught, I made it my New Year's (no- New Millennium's) resolution to no longer waste my time listening to the doom-n'-gloomers, let alone get stressed over anything they say. Not even 9/11 shook my resolve to switch from pessimism to optimism. Not even getting laid off in the economic downturn.
I'm still here.
Regardless, the world is gonna end for me personally at some point within the next fifty years, most likely (if I don't croak sooner than that), so I prefer to focus on what life has left for me to live. Which includes hobbies and passions like coin collecting.
Here's my Tarot card.
It says, "La dee dah... I whistle happily and smell the flowers as I march towards my doom."
Who's the fool? I am. But maybe those who waste their time being unhappy or frightened are the worse fools.
My coworkers were chuckling over that CDC page the other day. Who'd've thunk that somebody in such an august, official organization like that would have a sense of humor?
It gives me hope for America, that's what it does. Just when I had all but given up.
Pandemic/Epidemic influenzas are a very real possibility. A variety of very dangerous viruses, ones associated with high mortality, have jumped from wild animals to humans. You better have a really good immune system, because medical care won't help much.
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I can't think of any birds around with numismatic interests, allthough, some monthes back, a bunch of crows had a keen interest in some silver dollar sized pancakes I tossed to them
<< <i>Pandemic/Epidemic influenzas are a very real possibility. A variety of very dangerous viruses, ones associated with high mortality, have jumped from wild animals to humans. You better have a really good immune system, because medical care won't help much. >>
Maybe folks will start trading CACed slabs for Tamiflu on the BST forum!
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Actually, Google H5N1. and take a look at what a 60% death rate could be like. It's a bird or avian flu that is very difficult to get and almost impossible to give to another person. However, that being said it has been transmitted in an aerosol spray and could become a weapon of mass destruction without much problem. It could also mutate on it's own, especially if it gets over to the pig family, and then go pandemic across the world.
Mother Natures way of thinning the worlds population is illness.
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This is exactly why Hornady has started producing Zombie Max ammo - "just in case". It comes in several popular calibers and is loaded with the PROVEN Z Max bullet. Do a goodle search and check out the factory link, esp. the video. I'm at work and can't pull it up on the work computer as it filters evil firearms related sites. The stuff sold out instantly at most distributors when it came out. Check it out BEFORE they are munching on your brain :-)
<< <i>My coworkers were chuckling over that CDC page the other day. Who'd've thunk that somebody in such an august, official organization like that would have a sense of humor? >>
I am *ahem* a contractor for the CDC.
Me at the Springfield coin show: 60 years into this hobby and I'm still working on my Lincoln set!
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untill I hear it from the beak of Henny Penny.
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<< <i>Maybe the Rooster gold pieces from Europe will qualify for a special label so the WTC promoters can add another death series. >>
<< <i>"Being that Bush has taken this once great country and reduced it to being the biggest bunch of wusses I've ever seen, I'm willing to bet that the economy will collapse with the first death of a chicken in the U.S."
>>
I don't like G.W.B. . But I can't see blaming him for "pussification". This started WAY before Bush.
(Priest) BLASPHEMY he said it again, did you hear him?
Okay, $3 to YNs. I'm a softie.
"pussification"? Now there's a cromulent word!
<< <i>I'm going to be standing by the entrance to the coin show, handing out surgical masks for $5 each.
Okay, $3 to YNs. I'm a softie.
"pussification"? Now there's a cromulent word! >>
Do you dislike "snigletts" (?sniglet's)
(Priest) BLASPHEMY he said it again, did you hear him?
K
<< <i>The actual number of cases to July is around 229 cases with 113 deaths..mostly infants and elderly in third world countries. >>
OK, lets look at some crude math.
113/229 is about a 49% mortality rate.
Since most of these cases occured in rural asia, the best medical treatment was unavailable.
So lets cut the mortality rate in half again as it applies to the US healthcare system. We have lots of drugs and hospitals. Only 25% mortality in US.
But wait, numbers like this would completely overwhelm our healthcare system, and just not enuff amantadine to go around--- back up to 40%.
And when you get a bug like this into crowded cities as opposed to rural area, the infection rate really blasts off!
Even if my numbers are way overblown and it's only 10% as bad as all that, your looking at 4% of the earths human population dying off. (Bad for us, good for Mother Earth)
Have a nice weekend!
and they're cold.
I don't want nobody to shoot me in the foxhole."
Mary
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<< <i> People will panic, bird hating will set in and Congress will be forced to remove the eagle from the reverse. >>
Post avian apocalypse, Congress will also mandate that both sides of coins should bear the ugly mugs of dead politicians. And that's what'll really kill off coin collecting as a hobby.
OK, lets look at some crude math.
113/229 is about a 49% mortality rate.
Since most of these cases occured in rural asia, the best medical treatment was unavailable.
So lets cut the mortality rate in half again as it applies to the US healthcare system. We have lots of drugs and hospitals. Only 25% mortality in US.
But wait, numbers like this would completely overwhelm our healthcare system, and just not enuff amantadine to go around--- back up to 40%.
And when you get a bug like this into crowded cities as opposed to rural area, the infection rate really blasts off!
Even if my numbers are way overblown and it's only 10% as bad as all that, your looking at 4% of the earths human population dying off. (Bad for us, good for Mother Earth)"
Your math is way too crude.....You never even factored the CHANCES of even getting it. In these countries with BILLIONS......yes BILLIONS of people living in them with deplorable health condtions, only 229 people over the WORLD have gotten it....you have a better chance of getting stuck by lightning three times...sheesh......
In it's present form (bird to human transmission) it is almost no risk to humans other than those in the poultry industry.
and they're cold.
I don't want nobody to shoot me in the foxhole."
Mary
Best Franklin Website
If a major catastrophe strikes the USA, or the world, and my family is involved, I'm sure my hobbies, passionate though I may be about them, will have to take a back seat until the priorities are dealt with.
Until then, I'm gonna continue on as I am, and have as much fun as I possibly can.
Edit to add: Y2K was the last "doom and gloom" scenario I bought into (albeit only a tiny bit, with much skepticism). When all that came to naught, I made it my New Year's (no- New Millennium's) resolution to no longer waste my time listening to the doom-n'-gloomers, let alone get stressed over anything they say. Not even 9/11 shook my resolve to switch from pessimism to optimism. Not even getting laid off in the economic downturn.
I'm still here.
Regardless, the world is gonna end for me personally at some point within the next fifty years, most likely (if I don't croak sooner than that), so I prefer to focus on what life has left for me to live. Which includes hobbies and passions like coin collecting.
Here's my Tarot card.
It says, "La dee dah... I whistle happily and smell the flowers as I march towards my doom."
Who's the fool? I am. But maybe those who waste their time being unhappy or frightened are the worse fools.
Time is short, people. Carpe diem.
Zombie Apocalypse coming
GrandAm
<< <i>The Bird Flu does not matter,,,,,,, we have a
Zombie Apocalypse coming
This advice from the CDC is faulty, sheltering in place during a zombie apocalypse is usually a bad idea.
I saw it in that documentary "Dawn of the Dead" where the events occurred in real time!
60 years into this hobby and I'm still working on my Lincoln set!
It gives me hope for America, that's what it does. Just when I had all but given up.
RMR: 'Wer, wenn ich schriee, hörte mich denn aus der Engel Ordnungen?'
CJ: 'No one!' [Ain't no angels in the coin biz]
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allthough, some monthes back, a bunch of crows had a keen
interest in some silver dollar sized pancakes I tossed to them
Steve
<< <i>Pandemic/Epidemic influenzas are a very real possibility. A variety of very dangerous viruses, ones associated with high mortality, have jumped from wild animals to humans. You better have a really good immune system, because medical care won't help much. >>
Maybe folks will start trading CACed slabs for Tamiflu on the BST forum!
<< <i>What will happen to the Coin hobby/market if the Avian/Bird Flu strikes the US?????
Absolutely nothing. >>
I agree!
or avian flu that is very difficult to get and almost impossible to give to another person.
However, that being said it has been transmitted in an aerosol spray and could become a
weapon of mass destruction without much problem. It could also mutate on it's own,
especially if it gets over to the pig family, and then go pandemic across the world.
Mother Natures way of thinning the worlds population is illness.
bob
<< <i>The Bird Flu does not matter,,,,,,, we have a
Zombie Apocalypse coming
GrandAm
Best to be prepared....
This is exactly why Hornady has started producing Zombie Max ammo - "just in case". It comes in several popular calibers and is loaded with the PROVEN Z Max bullet. Do a goodle search and check out the factory link, esp. the video. I'm at work and can't pull it up on the work computer as it filters evil firearms related sites. The stuff sold out instantly at most distributors when it came out. Check it out BEFORE they are munching on your brain :-)
<< <i>My coworkers were chuckling over that CDC page the other day. Who'd've thunk that somebody in such an august, official organization like that would have a sense of humor? >>
I am *ahem* a contractor for the CDC.
60 years into this hobby and I'm still working on my Lincoln set!