[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

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.

Very well put. I posted something to this effect earlier and no one responded (they still don't get it). The port city of Mazatlan has massive traffic with China. Seems to me to be the first place to start check for influx of SARS. Illegal aliens WILL carry it up here. Time for travel lockdown. If not, a lot of people are going to die unnecessarily.

[twntaipan]

I think you are right, but to me, a travel lockdown will only be effective if there is mandatory quarantine for family/friends/close contacts with probable SARS patients. Why? Because it is already present in the USA. That there have been no deaths is a great blessing.

Good will and best wishes will not protect the USA from SARS -- take Canada for example. Chretien, et. al. put on a marvelous public relations campaign, but SARS is back.

[FITZ]

Those 90+ illegals in just one truck found in Victoria could have just as easily had SARS, some weren't from Mexico but from other Central American countries, there was the second truckload found in the same area, a bunch were found in a train car in Alamogordo in the same couple of days and dozens were found living in one wait-house in El Paso ---when you 50 people living in one average 3 bedroom house and just one has SARS and then they get on a truck headed north and spread out to who knows where ----we will have a problem if it's a deadly disease.

Thousands of people come over the Mexican border unchecked every day ---and this is while we're under terrorist threats. They won't close the border for terrorism, they won't close it for SARS.