J. H. C. - we're all going to die!
Q: So what's the big deal then?A: Well SARS is one of the most serious infectious diseases ever and it's spreading round the world up to 10 times faster than the last serious infectious disease. Many people have caught it already. Hundreds have died and billions more are set to follow.
Q: How is it transmitted?
A: By Canadians and the tabloid media. Exposure to either means at best uninformed blind panic, at worst a miserable death in an NHS hospital corridor.
_Jim I feel pretty good about this now. We have turned the corner in Hong Kong, Toronto, Tiawan, Vietnam, and hopefully Singapore (little news from there). China does not have control of this but they are willing to kill their own residents for minor infractions, so they will ruthlessly crack down on this now that they realize it is a threat to China, not just its residents.
The thing that scares me about this disease is one Chinese doctor coughing in front of an elevator infected the index cases for Hong Kong, Vietnam, Toronto, and Singapore (I believe Singapore I will have to find and reread). I just don't want that out in America for my wife or child to catch. It looks like it may not get here.
I haven't heard from them since shortly after they were moved into Y2K Internment Camps several years back ...
You ought to frame that one. It was one of the wittiest I have seen in years.