[FreepForever]

That article makes it sound as though they will soon be paying a bounty on those caught with the disease.

That's what Singapore is doing now. they pay $50 for each informer. Looks like Taiwan will follow suit too. Wold that send you looking for some suspects on the street now?

[Ma Li]

The Chinese use a kind of coal in their daily cooking that causes anyone not used to is (i.e. foreigners) to cough uncontrollably when around it. The information is so poor around here, that the locals are accusing foreigners of bringing it to this town, and calling us "the SARS people" when we go by, especially if we cough on that cooking smoke.

People are arriving in masses from Beijing and Wuhan. The police are trying to herd them straight from the trains to the hospitals, to be tested for SARS, but, of course, the tests aren't always accurate, and the people often don't want to go. Who would? If I break my leg here, I'll set it myself in my apartment. There is no way I would go to the hospital.