[discostu]

AIDS couldn't have been controlled. We could barely even properly diagnose it and that wasn't until symptoms showed up upto 10 years after infection. Even now that we can test for it the test isn't 100% accurate until 6 months after infection. Who do you quarantine when you can't even figure out who has a disease until 6 months after they get it? SARS is ALREADY endemic in the population, it was before we even gave it a name. It is a disease now established in the general population. Of course it doesn't transmit well and it's fatality rate is pretty minor, the only reason it's on every's lips is that our media needs panic to survive and they feed that monkey every chance they get. In the 6 months since SARS showed up it's traveled to fewer areas, infected fewer people and killed fewer victims than our annual flu outbreak does in half the time. It's a non-issue that's only interesting because it's new, once we've actually figured out how it works nobody is going to care about it anymore.

[eggman]

In the 6 months since SARS showed up it's traveled to fewer areas, infected fewer people and killed fewer victims than our annual flu outbreak does in half the time.

Flu does not typically require hospitalization for most people who contract it. If that is the case for SARS, then it is nothing to worry about. But that is not the case unless there are thousands of SARS cases not that are not being hospitalized. The hit this will have for heath care costs and insurance rates will be enormous.

SARS can take a healthy person and put them in the hospital for a week or more. That's much worse than the annual flu outbreak. Most of the deaths from flu are people who have weakened immune systems. That has not been the case with SARS from what I have read.