[Lessismore]

Some societies are much more fatalistic that others. By the tone of this story, it's not clear whether India would fight the disease.

[thinktwice]

I'm old enough to remember the polio epidemics.

People, especially kids, were dying in large numbers.

They would quarantine infectious patients for a while, and close the neighborhood swimming pools; but life went on as normal.

My brother was paralyzed with polio, but he was lucky and he recovered thanks to some good family conducted therapy.

[discostu]

Of course they'll fight the disease, that's a stupid comment. He's just presenting the reality which is: SARS isn't that nasty a disease, it's only scary because there are more unknowns than knowns, but it's here and it looks like it's not going to disappear. Welcome to the new reality, new diseases popup periodically we haven't had a newbie since AIDS and herpes showed up, but here we are. Slowly but surely we're starting to see the calm heads coming out and processing the numbers. This disease doesn't transmit well and it's not very deadly, there's still a lot of studying to be done but the time for blind panic has passed.

[Radix]

SARS is possibly a greater threat than the Media would have us believe.

Excuse me for suggesting that the sky might be falling.

I suggest that this could be the case anyhow.

Matthew 24:6-8)

[Prince Charles]

But as far as SARS is concerned, there are still gaps in knowledge about it and, hence the scare. But, till now, only 3 per cent of the infected have developed the acute form of the disease.

I guess that means the other additional 12% who died shouldn't be considered acute.

/sarcasm

[First Amendment]

. But, till now, only 3 per cent of the infected have developed the acute form of the disease.

How can the death rate be higher than the rate of people getting the acute form of the disease??