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I don't have a scenario, I'm pointing out the absolute minimum that a scenario MUST have in order to accomplish ANYTHING. If you can't test for SARS you can't stop it at the border, period. If you can test for SARS you'll only be able to stop it the border if you can stop the people with it long enough to get the test results, period. You'll only stop fresh victims (ie people that caught if from somebody else on the plane or in their departure airport) if you can keep them through the incubation period before giving the test, period. If you're going to be keeping all these people during the incubation and testing period and you want the test to actually accomplish something you'll have to keep them quarentined away from the general populace, period. Anything less than that cannot accomplish ANYTHING, period.

The thread was started because somebody at WND is aghast that testing isn't being done, well what I've outlined above is what MUST happen for any effective form of testing. Anybody not willing to go that route doesn't really want testing, they want to bitch and complain.

This is the MINIMUM, nowhere near perfection. If you want perfectionistic I can start getting into the decon procedures that will need to be run on the airport and airplanes to stop lingering infections, but currently we have no data on SARS indicating that kind of stuff would be necessary. Haven't even gotten into treatment procedures and decontamination methods for medical professionals involved in treatment, that's perfection. Sealed treatment wards with only rubber glove access from positive preasure rooms, that's perfection. My questions are the basics that must be considered for minor effectiveness.