[FITZ]

Would you turn yourself in if you had a couple muscle aches and a minor dry cough if you thought you'd be forcefully placed into quarantine? Would you be able to pay your bills if you couldn't work for 6 weeks or however long they decided you had to stay home? I don't think many of us lead the kind of lifestyles that would allow that --- of course if we were deathly ill and on a respirator but that isn't what SARS does to everyone. I imagine they'd have to quarantine entire families ---everyone exposed to someone suspicious for SARS. I don't think it's really possible.

[twntaipan]

So...becoming a spreader of a deadly disease is justifiable? Don't get me wrong (and I am currently living in a SARS outbreak area and worry about myself and my family having fever and being quarantined hastily; it may be hypthetical for you; it is reality for me), this is not a simple issue. But if people knowingly break quarantine and spread the disease, how would you hold them accountable and contain the spread?

[twntaipan]

Incidentally, one misdiagnosed case in Taipei has led to 10,000 being exposed to SARS. It should not be ignored as a threat.