SARS is much worse than is being reported

Personal American friends living in Hong Kong | CometBaby

[CometBaby]

My American friends living in Hong Kong called last night. The SARS in Hong Kong is much worse than has been reported. China has been fudging on the number of cases. He said that the number of new infections have been DOUBLING DAILY. It's spreading like wildfire. It's more contageous than has been admitted and there is no cure. The schools have all closed and many workplaces are not requiring employees to come in. They expect the Airport to CLOSE .. nobody knows exactly when, and people are scrambling to get out of the country before it does. The hospitals are all full and they plan to begin to quaranteen people in their homes.

He said that walking in Hong Kong is absolutely surreal .. everyone is wearing masks. And another thing .. they are running out of masks. It's really bad.

[PackerBoy]

Lot's of Orientals go to gamble at Vegas.

You mean Asians?

[oscharbob]

Seems to me someone should start checking to see if this
virus or whatever has been man made (produced) and distributed on purpose starting in China.......to be carried......

oscharbob

[dawn53]

But SARS could become an issue with AIDS activists because it seems it would be more likely to attack someone with a compromised immune system, as those with AIDS.

[Air Force Born]

I read this was first identified in Western China. Sounds like possibly a Biological Weapon that got away a little early. Caused by a Coronavirus, not treatable with antibiotics, just general support and wait for the body to gain control. potentially worse than anthrax. Hope I'm wrong, but this could get nasty.

[goldstategop]

I can think of some people being more susceptible than others. Not every one has died from SARS and all the doomsday reporting make it sound like the long heralded arrival of Captain Trips.

[grania]

It's not Hong Kong that needs to close-it's OUR international airports that need to close to flights from Asia

What? Who will US corporations hire? US citizens? (sarcasm)

[goldstategop]

Have the ChiComs found the perfect weapon yet? <sarcasm

[WaterDragon]

zook? You take care!

[zook]

Thanks. We've wrestled with this decision for a while now. If things get worse by this coming Wednesday, we'll cancel. But after weighing all the reasons (for example, we're already in Taiwan, a country with over 100 cases of its own) we are "go" for now.

But thanks again for your thoughts!

[spectre]

Whatever...

sw

[Montana4Jesus]

Steve's web site is www.stevequayle.com. He is a great friend of mine. Take him very seriously. His information and sources are proven.

[oh8eleven]

"By the fall of 1918 a strain of influenza seemingly no different from that of previous years suddenly turned so deadly, and engendered such a state of panic and chaos in communities across the globe, that many people believed the world was coming to an end. It struck with amazing speed, often killing its victims within just hours of the first signs of infection."

The 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic

[You Dirty Rats]

Ebola is not a very sturdy disease.

SARS has already proven that it can travel on long international flights; that's how it appeared in Toronto. It is highly contagious.

Onve it spreads to hundreds of thousands and tens of thousands die, it may be too late to prevent a general worldwide outbreak.

[RayChuang88]

I personally think this "disease" is way overblown in the media. Another one of those fears of the week. 53 dead in how many countries? Heck, ebola wipes out that many in some backwater African village in a few days.

I think so, too. Think about it--every year here in the USA we have normal flu outbreaks that kills hundreds of people per flu season and it doesn't get the attention that SARS is getting nowadays.

From what I read about the flu pandemic in 1918, that disease spread like wildfire due to the conditions of war (World War I) and also the fact back in 1918 personal hygiene was nowhere as good as it is today. Thanks to our modern medical knowledge, the spread of SARS is a lot less than it should have been despite the sensationalist reports from the Asian press.

Now, if SARS had suddenly killed several thousand people in a matter of days THEN we should have be concerned.

[FrdmLvr]

Steve Quayle was AWESOME! on Coast to Coast Fri. night (3-28). It was an extremely information-dense show.

[TaxRelief]

Today's SARS threads, for those who want it all!:

Screening for SARS at Pearson Blasted -- Toronto Airport
Virus may have crossed species barrier
Second hospital ordered closed SARS Toronto
Fears spread through HK as more infected with SARS
Quarantine is not slowing SARS
Mandatory quarantine a SARS option

[Trust but Verify]

This is a virulent influenza, but certainly not the worst we've ever seen. Most people apparently respond well to treatment. Suppressed immune systems are more at risk than those of us who are healthy. Those people should take extra precautions.

[AAABEST]

If that turns out to be the case liberals will replace AIDS with SARS as the next politically correct disease to expend government funds upon.

And they'll find a way to blame Reagan for it.

[Montana4Jesus]

If you go to the "Q-Files" tab on his web site you can listen to his regular radio show every night at 5:00 MST.