Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/07/28

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Subject: RE: [Leica] A4, etc
From: "Dan S" <dstate1@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 20:59:20 GMT

I believe Leica users are less likely to get AIDS, since we spend most of 
our time sleeping with our cameras....

>
>            I don't expect the next plague to be the Black Death, indeed,
>bubonic plague is now eminently treatable.  The next plague is likely to be
>a rapidly moving virus which will be able to jump populations because of 
>our
>inability to control it...much like the indiscriminate influenza epidemics
>of the early part of the Twentieth Century.
>
>         AIDS, anyone?
>
>           It is true, that the best prophylaxis against early death is
>wealth, but the broad band of Leica users will not be immune because we 
>have
>already dissipated our wealth on cameras and lenses.
>
>         Sad, and somewhat true. However, as we can afford film and
>processing for our Leicas, we are still way above the level of the most
>plague susceptible.
>
>
>
>             Buzz Hausner
>


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