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)