Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Pastimes : SARS - what next? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ilaine who wrote (373)	5/2/2003 6:13:27 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 1070

CB, so much of life is a compromise. Biological resistance to attack seems the same. We might have excellent disease resistance, but that makes us prone to cancer [I think that's a reasonable example]. We might be tall and skinny, which is great for picking apples in competition with shorties, but it's terrible for surviving a cold winter and hypothermia [excessive heat loss from a high surface:volume ratio - short fatties would do much better in the Arctic]. So it seems with Sars. Some of us are lucky and will avoid it. The worst of it anyway. Meanwhile, the Hong Kong SAR SARS, scars and scares. Recovering from Sars [for lots of people] is like recovering from falling into a timber mill saw, losing a leg, but nominally 'recovered'. The lung damage apparently leaves people with lots of damaged lung tissue. Half a lung! Ironic that Hong Kong has the SAR [Special Administrative Region] political label. Mqurice