[Judith Anne]

If everyone in China who has it and spreads it is shot or imprisoned, what is the likeliest outcome of that?

No one will dare say he/she is sick--even with an innocent cold...people will just disappear, and will be said to be traveling, or working elsewhere, or to have run off--and the hospitals will have fewer and fewer cases, people will just stay home, die in bed and be buried in fields at night...and the Chicoms will happily announce that they have won the war against SARS...

[riri]

Interesting tidbit. My husband had, yet another, an all day meeting this week and, as usual for lately, SARS made it's way into the slide presentation. They got talking about the travel freeze re: China. It was said all of the people who normally go there are getting "antsy" about being stuck stateside and many are calling for a resumption of travel to China-they are not concerned about SARS.

[The Pheonix]

I thought what the Chicoms said was that those who are caught in China with intentionally (evil intent) to knowingly an deliberately spread SARS will be imprison from 10 years to life or even executed depending on the severity of the crime

Those are sick and go to hospitals won't be charged with this law.........