[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?

[FITZ]

That's the other reason quarantines won't come close to working in this country. I don't live in your area ---but look at the Mexican border ---you would have no control over how the Mexican government handles SARS and it's unlikely they'd do much at all (look at TB, hepatitis, and the rest that are common over there) and we would have thousands coming daily unchecked over that border ---legally and illegally so where I live, quarantining me an American would be completely silly. Then there's the Canadian border which might not be as open but there is still a lot of traffic back and forth.