[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.

[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.