Nobel Laurate Joshua Lederberg (1925-2008), who was a molecular biologist and won the 1958 Nobel Prize in Medicine wrote:
"The single biggest threat to man's continued dominance on the planet is the virus. It's our wits versus their genes."
But then again, he was an accomplished scientist. So why should anyone have listened to him when he said that many years ago?
Little math to help us Rump-
ReplyDeleteTotal number of people infected world wide; divide by the infection rate of NYC transit workers (14.4%); add gross domestic product of Niger, 1979 (47.26 billion USD), multiply by Matty Alou's life time batting average (.307 from 1960-74- vastly underrated player) and the divide by the total number of people who voted in Doral in the last election and this fairly simple formula, with a bit of tweaking yields this very stable result:
DAVA 56%
rosie the riveter 44%.
Matty Alou was a 2x all star and 1x NL batting champ- look at this run-
ReplyDelete.343 1966 (Batting champ- finished 9th in MVP voting- teammate Roberto Clemente was MVP, Sandy Kofax was second); .338 1967; .332 1968; .331 1969; .297 1970; .315 1971; 307 1972;
.290 1973;
The guy was an amazing player and had brothers Felipe and Jesus who also played in MLB and I think all three were in the same outfield for the Giants in 1963 for at least one game.