Why do they need 60m vaccines if they are expecting 100k a day to catch it?

( Maximinimus you stick around I'll make it worth your while, Thu 2 Jul 2009, 14:46, archived)

They will take off and vacinate the site from orbit

(thediscokingpin, Thu 2 Jul 2009, 14:47, archived)

If John travels to London at 60 mph at 3pm, and Steven drives to london at 55mph at 4pm
both being 100 miles from london, who will catch swine flu first?
( Mykeyboy A massive, salty filing cabinet, Thu 2 Jul 2009, 14:47, archived)

If it's me, I shall be mightily pissed off.

( thealternativefact, Thu 2 Jul 2009, 14:51, archived)

well, usually you manufacture for the population, so 60m
but the health secretary should shut the fuck up. "Cases are doubling every week and on this trend we could see over 100,000 cases per day by the end of August"

Yes, if you use maths. On the other hand, if you knew more than the square root of fuck all about epidemic spread modelling (and hey, you're only the bastard health secretary, why should you know anything about that? it's only your job) then your 100,000 a week is rubbish and frankly idiotic to say. You might as well go "oh fuck, we're all going to die of zombieAIDS" ... you'll be as accurate and create the same level of panic.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 2 Jul 2009, 15:42, archived)