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Chilli
High Treason Prevention Officer
AFAIK current SARS knoledge says it is a mutation of the "normal" cold and it has a prefference for younger people.
And I'm not especially afraid SARS will whipe out the entire word. It's scary, sure, but there will always be big viruses threatining mankind. It is nothing unusual - also if it is.
And I'm not especially afraid SARS will whipe out the entire word. It's scary, sure, but there will always be big viruses threatining mankind. It is nothing unusual - also if it is.
Lyta
Moderator
Well, he was working on a novel for a while (I guess in between all his other projects) which was going to have a "mainstream" theme.
Here is his posts about it:
Sep.6.2001
I should be able to announce one other project, the last I could take on at this point, in about a month or so. The contracts only now got signed. And I'm now about halfway through the new novel I'm writing, which should be going out to auction in January (assuming work allows me to finish it by then).
Nov.10.2002
"Mr.Straczysnki, I am currently reading your novel "Othersyde". It is a wonderful novel, are you going to write anymore in the near future? I will try to read the other ones, if I can find them."
The drag is that I was a couple hundred pages into a new novel, mainstream, when the events of 9/11 happened and I had to spike the novel because everything that happened since that day (with a few minor variations) lined up pretty much with my book, which kills any chance of publishing it.
Takes a while to come back from looking at two-hundred-plus dead pages.
On a happier note, I'm in the process of signing a deal that will put all three of my novels, plus my anthology, back into print early next year.
Here is his posts about it:
Sep.6.2001
I should be able to announce one other project, the last I could take on at this point, in about a month or so. The contracts only now got signed. And I'm now about halfway through the new novel I'm writing, which should be going out to auction in January (assuming work allows me to finish it by then).
Nov.10.2002
"Mr.Straczysnki, I am currently reading your novel "Othersyde". It is a wonderful novel, are you going to write anymore in the near future? I will try to read the other ones, if I can find them."
The drag is that I was a couple hundred pages into a new novel, mainstream, when the events of 9/11 happened and I had to spike the novel because everything that happened since that day (with a few minor variations) lined up pretty much with my book, which kills any chance of publishing it.
Takes a while to come back from looking at two-hundred-plus dead pages.
On a happier note, I'm in the process of signing a deal that will put all three of my novels, plus my anthology, back into print early next year.
SARS doesn't seem to be all that lethal, although the fact that China may have covered up many cases clouds the issue somewhat. The mortality rate of SARS appears to be around 3.7%, quite low really, to think that 96.3% of the people who catch it survive.
Then again, in 1918 a virulent strain of influenza swept the world, killing at least 20 million, many estimates are a lot higher. The interesting point though is that the estimated mortality rate of that epidemic was between 3 and 5%.
Clearly SARS is nowhere near as contageous as that epidemic.
Then again, in 1918 a virulent strain of influenza swept the world, killing at least 20 million, many estimates are a lot higher. The interesting point though is that the estimated mortality rate of that epidemic was between 3 and 5%.
Clearly SARS is nowhere near as contageous as that epidemic.
Glacophane
Regular
All of this makes me think of the 'super-flu' from The Stand.
