One child policy!!!?!?!?! There's 1.25 BILLION OF THEM!


Magnitude and Growth. As the world's population surpassed 6 billion (6,000,000,000) in October 1999, China's population represented more than 1/5 of this total (20.8%) -- one out of every five people in the world lives in China. Today, China's population exceeds 1.25 billion (1,250,000,000), a number that continues to increase minute-by-minute on Beijing's official Ticking Population Clock:

http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/china/geog/population.htm

yea, them.

Oh, great. So the post apocalyptic world is going to be filled with ten times the chores and bellyaching then? :bolt:

I didn't see ugly people on that list nor did I see the tackily dressed or the women with too much make up.

Funny that. I didn't see shallow people on there either.

I'm on there under that heading! I'm so shallow that a walk through the river of my soul would scarcely wet your feet!

I think that after a worldwide pandemic, the kind of thing that kills a huge portion of the human race and leaves nothing left of society as we now know it......things will sort themselves out.

It will have to be a big one before we get to that point. Or one where we have no immunization plan. It is quite possible. Ten infected people on ten different airplanes all landing in ten different countries over the course of a few weeks. Yea, it could get bad fast.

And stinky pooters and pee pee diters

huhwha?

I don't think you get it, merc...

"Who should MDs let die in a pandemic?"

"Women and children first!"

I know what you're sayin'.....I've decided not to be the quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys.


I've also decide not to be a porn star......I'm afraid my wang would get tired or sore.....


gotta live my life the way i want to.

When the time comes, I want to be one of Elspode's ten women.

(bruce, I will sneak back and forth between you two so no worries, K?)

Two thoughts:

1) This kind of list makes very logical sense when medical care is a limited commodity, and the goal is to preserve the most (by number saved) and most enduring (by probable remaining time) human life. The other alternatives are to allocate those limited resources by luck (whoever they get to first) or by power (whoever can insist on being treated, by force or by money).

2) Medical care is always a limited commodity.

I am going to guess that the lack of any official guidelines for medical personnel in post-Katrina hospitals led to the creation of this panel and its report. It does sound heartless. But not brainless.