Re: Readercon code of conduct

On 5/29/24 12:32 PM, Mike Van Pelt wrote:

In article <0001HW.2C0541490026A28F70000C14238F@news.supernews.com>,
WolfFan  <akwolffan@zoho.com> wrote:

Ok. Sad, but there are people who die of bananas, and we don't ban
bananas. In that age group, corona was about as dangerous as driving a
car, so not justifiable to close down the world for a flu.

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bloody hell:
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1. covid-19 ain’t ‘a flu’

 Don't discount "flu".  (You did mention the example of the
"Spanish Flu" of WWI.)
 The "bird flu" that is starting to transmit to cattle, for
instance...  There's no human-to-human transmission (yet)
but about 900 people have caught it from cattle.
 And half of them died of it.
 

If this thread ever gets back to convention codes of conduct, someone ping me. I've skipped over most of it.
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