[twntaipan]

So how do you contain an infectious disease that has a mortality rate of 55% for those over 65 and spreads as well in hospitals as anywhere (maybe better)? Do you just wait til it has killed off the unfit, and the rest move on as if life is the same?

That may sound like hyperbole, but I am serious. How will you suggest SARS be contained?

[FITZ]

I don't know how it can be contained because I don't know how it's spread. They can't keep it out of the USA by quarantining people inside the USA when they get it. Once a significant number of cases are brought into the USA, it's going to spread if it has the means to spread. They can't keep thousands of people from entering the USA every day ----and we have people coming in from all kinds of places ---and with so many entering illegally taking the temperature of just those coming in legally won't make a difference.