[Betty Jo]

Hi, Jimmy, how ya doing?

Maybe I could have called a wrong number.

Do you think such a busy cancer researcher-biochemist-surgery instructor-surgery instructor(bioengineering department)-virologist-owner of 2 SARS list servers-who works at Harvard-Massachusetts General-Shriners Hospital Boston,takes the time to call back hang ups?

On your calling me God,I dont believe in God.

As far as I can tell, SARS is unknowable, and untreatable.

At least as far as WHO and CDC say.

[TaxRelief]

Betty Jo, If SARS is a designer bug, a belief in God may be the only thing that saves you. This is all prophesied, you know.

[TaxRelief]

Do you think such a busy cancer researcher-biochemist-surgery instructor- surgery instructor(bioengineering department)-virologist-owner of 2 SARS list servers-who works at Harvard-Massachusetts General-Shriners Hospital Boston,takes the time to call back hang ups?

You forgot webmaster of his home page (Ligand), a soccer page and Netcognizance. Then there is all the posting on Agonist, Freerepublic, and at least 4 other sites. And of course all the sending of articles to Promedmail...

Of course, there are also at least 10 email addresses to check two or three times a day.

[_Jim]

I dont believe in God.

Never faced death or the possibility of death yet huh?

To whom will you cry out, to who will you address your supplication in your most dire hour of need?

Dirt?

HOW do you even know that what you can't see yet concern yourself with even exists? That has always baffled me about you 'atheists'. For 'atheists', some of you still use an awful lot of faith in your lives to do the simplest things ...

[_Jim]

As far as I can tell, SARS is unknowable, and untreatable.

Betty Jo, meet the elctron: unknowable as well (EVER met one? ).

They are also capable of killing - more swiftly AND more unpredicatbly (on many ocasions) - moreso then any viral agent you or any country can 'cook up' too ...