[discostu]

SARS is a much LOWER threat than the media would have us believe. They have completely overhyped this, it's Summer 2001 Florida Shark Attacks all over again.

[eggman]

SARS is a much LOWER threat than the media would have us believe. They have completely overhyped this, it's Summer 2001 Florida Shark Attacks all over again.

So is AIDS, but that doesn't mean it is not going to wind up costing millions to control it. AIDS could have been controlled if only a quarantine was established and maintained. To allow SARS to become endemic to the population while there is still a chance to contain it would be criminal.

[per loin]

SARS is a much LOWER threat than the media would have us believe.

From the New York Times:

GUANGZHOU, China, April 27 ? The outbreak of a new respiratory disease has inflicted the greatest blow to the Chinese economy since the Tiananmen Square killings in 1989, causing a plunge in retail sales, a slump in demand for some Chinese exports and a near-collapse in domestic and foreign tourism.

J. P. Morgan Chase, which does investment banking in China, estimates that after expanding at a torrid annual rate of 9.9 percent in the first quarter, the Chinese economy is actually shrinking at an annual rate of 2 percent in the second quarter.