[Walkingfeather]

heres a thought.... What if there are cargo ships that just cruise the oceans till they run out of fuel because the crew living in such close quarters all die before reaching port?

[Beck_isright]

Will never happen thankfully. They are pretty much on auto pilot and communications are regular as hell. But what's scares me is that the authorities do not even know if people can act as "carriers" and not get ill and still transmit the disease to others. This is freaky.

[Bluewave]

I don't like to be yelling the sky is falling. It does not become me. However, I am one who does not like to deal with the inevitable outcome, when there is another outcome within our control.

There is an economic face to the SARS threat and at the present time, most of us are more worried about the credit cards than our lives.

Some are concerned about a paltry multi-megaton weapon coming into a port and killing two or three million people at the hands of a terrorist, but SARS may come into port and take out 60,000,000. Let's hope the ship runs out of fuel, but let's prepare for the worst.