From: Scott Chase (ecphoric@hotmail.com)
Date: Mon 28 Nov 2005 - 11:14:13 GMT
>From: "Alan Patrick" <a.patrick@btinternet.com>
>Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
>Subject: RE: Giving a presentation on memetics
>Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 08:03:03 -0000
>
>Memes as similar to epidemics...quite timely....the Asian flu meme has
>spread faster than the flu itself...
>
Yeah. I was pretty yyoung when the swine flu craze took hold in the 70's.
Wonder what simlarties there are with that one (the cultural epidemic that
is). It wasn't too long ago we were worried about the prospects of ebola and
hanta spreading widely. That _Outbreak_ movie didn't help much.
Epidemics and pandemics are a real concern, even with bird flu, but there
are other things to worry about too...like hurricanes. The Atlantic tropical
system naming has reached Delta this season so far. When we reach the greek
alphabet you gotta wonder what the heck is going on with this stuff. One of
those 2005 storms hit the Iberian peninsula so you Europeans aren't safe
either.
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