[Beck_isright]

Actually that is the proper role of the Federal government as envisioned by the framers. However I am very suspect of any information we get about this disease. I think that if there was a sudden announcement of 1000 cases in a particular community in the US, it would cripple the economy for a decade. I can see this outbreak being kept off of the front page in the US as long as possible.

[Bluewave]

SARS is being treated by the Chinese as a political problem and they are being severely critized.

The world wide economic implications are grave indeed. We are beginning to see a crumbling of lofty ideas for a unified world with free trade.

We will defnitely shoot the messenger on this one, but it is a message worth dying for, because in the end we will die if we don't get the message.