[Cicero]

I sure hope they put a different team in charge of dealing with SARS than the one appointed to deal with a possible smallpox emergency. Those guys shuffled their feet and dithered for two years, and still have barely accomplished anything.

The way I figure it, SARS is likely to break loose next fall. If things go really wrong, we could see tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of deaths world-wide in the first year it really gets loose.

So, three years is better than ten. But I hope Bush has managed to put some competent people in charge this time, not a bunch of clintonoid condom pushers and sex educators.

[Prince Charles]

Gosh, remember the bad old days of that boob Joycelyn Elders as Surgeon General of the United States? What a dismal chapter in American medical history.