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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (31999)	11/10/2009 2:18:47 AM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 46821

Scourge? What scourge? If it's voluntary, it's hardly a scourge. <At other points throughout the read I mused about Internet-addiction and the growing scourge that is individual isolation, which afflicts a growing number of mouse-clicking citizens today.> That's like saying "the scourge of golf" or "the scourge of watching tv". If people choose to do something, it's hardly a scourge. But there are serious scourges lurking. H5N1, sars, combinations with virulent flus [such as H1N1 which was pandemic in NZ the winter just gone and it hangs on tightly]. N5N1 had a mortality rate of 70%. That's a catastrophe of world record proportions if it got going. If people can escape into cyberspace, so that their personal 3D breathing and spittle sharing contacts reduce a lot, the prospects of such an infection go down a lot. If millions or even billions of netizens live in nice towns by beaches and distributed from traffic jams, noise and hassles, their chances of being catastrophically infected go way down. Viruses can't travel through fibre, ADSL or wirelessly. But value can do for netizens. Blessed are the Geek, for they shall inherit the Earth [after regular 3D humans have gone down with N5N1 recombinated]. Mqurice