[Bluewave]

SARS is being treated by the Chinese as a political problem and they are being severely critized.

The world wide economic implications are grave indeed. We are beginning to see a crumbling of lofty ideas for a unified world with free trade.

We will defnitely shoot the messenger on this one, but it is a message worth dying for, because in the end we will die if we don't get the message.

[Beck_isright]

"We will defnitely shoot the messenger on this one, but it is a message worth dying for, because in the end we will die if we don't get the message."

The problem I see, call me a cynic if you wish, is that what brave bureaucrat will risk his job to leak information a superior does not want out in public yet? That's what scares the hell out of me. And how many people did we let into the US from Asia, unscreened, unchecked, and now lost in our system since this started two or three months ago? This sounds like 1918 all over again.