From Chris Erway’s blog cce hk blog comes the story that the high rate of SARS infection in Block ‘E’ of the Amoy Gardens Housing Estate in Hong Kong may be due to infected construction workers on a nearby high rise urinating out of the side on the unfinished building. The aerosoled fluid could [...]
Call it disasterbation, call it what you will… I’m scared of SARS. We’re talking 3-4% mortality, 10-15% requiring mechanical ventilation and a current spread rate of ~2% per day. At that rate - everyone on Earth will be infected within 6 months.
If the 3-4% mortaility rate holds - that’s 200-300 million dead.
And what [...]