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Biotech / Medical : SARS and Avian Flu -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (2751)	10/16/2005 7:56:46 PM
From: tom pope	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4232

If, to use a moderate figure for mortality, there are 100 million deaths and they are valued at something like US$1 million each, that's $100 trillion in cost That's not an economic value, is it? It may be what courts are inclined to allow, but that's not the same thing. Somebody on another thread threw out the tantalizing idea that a pandemic is a great way to solve the Social Security problem, for a while anyway. I don't really like the idea of being part of the solution, I confess. But killing off a lot of unproductive oldsters (like me) might have hugely beneficial economic effects.