Re: [Marxism] Flu epidemic mortality drops dramatically -- a tale of the undead

[Shane Mage <shmage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On May 2, 2009, at 8:07 PM, Joaquin Bustelo wrote:
>
>       These tests are not easy to do or cheap. They have to be done in a
> specialized laboratory and take more than 24 hours once you start  
> them.
> Because what is involved in a technique to "amplify" a DNA "signal,"  
> even
> the tiniest contamination by ONE MOLECULE will ruin the test results  
> (even
> if the tester doesn't realize it).
>
>       Until last week, Mexico did not have the capacity to do this test on
> anything like a clinical scale, and instead a few samples were sent  
> to the
> CDC in Atlanta...

This sounds right...but didn't you, just one hour earlier, acquit  
Smithfield on the grounds that none of the many La Gloria residents,  
living around that hog-hell, who had been suffering from "flu-like"  
illnesses for the previous month, have been confirmed positive to the  
H1N1 virus?

Shane Mage

> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
>
> Herakleitos of Ephesos

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