Finally: A rational article about "Bird Flu"

First a disclaimer. I do not agree in every instance with the proclimations and motivations of the author, but I believe she got the main point correctly. Bird Flue has been hyped to such an extent that the truth takes work to discover.

I've been wondering when I would get to read something credible about this so called "Possible Pandemic" destined to enrich Rumsfeld and put the Army on American streets. Resident bush is hoping for any excuse to declare marshal law and as the arcticle explains this offers a perfect excuse. Vauge symptoms and the only solution is to quarantine the "victims." Now we know why he's amassing that huge data bank. Got to have some way to differentiate which victims to quarantine. Following is a quote from the arcticle:

"Approximately 65 deaths in Asia (the main area this “disease” supposedly has affected) from Human cases of “Bird Flu” have been reported by the World Health Organization (WHO).
According to the Internet World Stats (Usage and Population Statistics), the population of Asia is 3,622,994,130. That’s
56.4% of the World’s population. If we divide 65 (supposed deaths from “bird flu”) into 3,622,994,130 people in Asia, the answer is approximately 54 million. That means that in Asia there has been ONE death for every 54 MILLION people! - - - HARDLY the statistics necessary to predict a frightening
“Pandemic!” OR to call out the military forces! That would be similar to declaring an epidemic of “Bird Flu” in the United States with only 5 or 6 deaths in the entire country! That, of course, would be ridiculous! But why should we be surprised! George W. Bush is talking about declaring martial law and calling out the military when there has been NOT ONE SINGLE
DEATH - - - OR EVEN ONE PERSON INFECTED with “Bird Flu” in the entire country!"

Now, into the circle file...