SHOOTING SARS

Iconoclast ^ | May 2, 2003 | LIN ANDERSON

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THE ICONOCLAST
WEEKLY RANT

SHOOTING SARS



by Lin Anderson

It's just the way the world works -- no sooner do we get a War of Liberation out of the way when -- bam! -- we get broadsided by a new and mysterious disease.

This life is just one big ol' cliffhanger.

The disease in question is of course SARS -- an acronym for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome -- and it's apparently nothing to be trifled with, or -- to be more specific -- sneezed at. Health professionals tell us it's a sort of super-pneumonia which originated in China -- the first significant thing to originate there since the "Mao jackets" of the late 1960s, and just as unwelcome at your cocktail parties....

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More wit and wisdom from Iconoclast's wry sage, Lin Anderson.

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This life is just one big ol' cliffhanger.

Don't forget, just in case we run out of something to worry about, that we could still get zapped by a beserk Roosky general with an ICBM.

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