But you just intimated that it won't have a huge effect because our standards of hygiene are better these days.

(Slip Digby is a meat puppet, Thu 18 Jun 2009, 10:59, 2 replies, latest was 17 years ago)

Hygiene will simply make it harder for the virus to spread,
I never said it would stop it completely. But still - if you look at hygiene standards from the 1920's and compare them to now - you'll see a marked difference.
(Poppet some assembly required., Thu 18 Jun 2009, 11:01, Reply)

There were many fewer people in the 1920s too
and they didn't travel as much either.

So there is a far, far greater chance for diseases to be spread more rapidly than they can be isolated and cured. That is why it is potentially so very serious.
(Bazongaloid, Thu 18 Jun 2009, 11:03, Reply)

Yeah.
The standards then may well have been better. In hospitals, at least.

/Momentary Daily Heil blog.
(Slip Digby is a meat puppet, Thu 18 Jun 2009, 11:10, Reply)

You pick up on this one as it's contradiction?
You've missed plenty
(Buckminsterfuller Bring out yer meat puppets, it's time for some fun, Thu 18 Jun 2009, 11:01, Reply)

I just prefer to keep it simple...
Then maybe, maybe, she'll get the point.
(Slip Digby is a meat puppet, Thu 18 Jun 2009, 11:08, Reply)

Dont bank on it
she's on a losing streak, but is failing to heed that.
(Buckminsterfuller Bring out yer meat puppets, it's time for some fun, Thu 18 Jun 2009, 11:13, Reply)