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[sharonking21]

either you really are fear mongering or you don't know enough about epidemiology to be talking about the subject.

In any case, I dislike overblown accounts for at least two reasons: (1)When people see that such prognostications do not come true, they tend to then discount all prevention efforts based on epidemiology when they could be helped by some of them, and (2) I dislike any 'hyping' that causes unwarranted fear; this is more or less what Bush et al did, but it is just as distasteful coming from someone on our side.

Fear causes people to do things, sometimes bad things like Iraq, that they normally would not do. There is plenty in the world to fear that is based on rational assessments of situations--we do not need to add on extraneous and unwarranted fear.