[Jim Noble]

This is from CDC "Interim Guidance for Institutions or Organizations Hosting Persons Arriving in the United States from Areas with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)":

"Thousands of people arrive in the United States from areas where SARS outbreaks are occurring to participate in gatherings such as academic courses, business meetings, or sporting events. Guidance is needed to provide a consistent, rational approach to SARS prevention without unnecessarily stigmatizing these groups or interfering with collegial pursuits, commerce, and other important activities. "

What else is there to say?

"Unnecessary stigmatization" is what we need to guard against.

[riri]

God forbid, you feel stigmatized if you have a highly contagious, possibly fatal and, yet to be fully understood disease.

My lord, who comes up with these guidelines? Mary Poppins?

[aristeides]

PC kills.

[Smogger]

Thousands of people arrive in the United States from areas where SARS outbreaks are occurring to participate in gatherings such as academic courses, business meetings, or sporting events. Guidance is needed to provide a consistent, rational approach to SARS prevention without unnecessarily stigmatizing these groups or interfering with collegial pursuits, commerce, and other important activities. "

What else is there to say?

"Unnecessary stigmatization" is what we need to guard against.

See it's this type of rhetoric that really pisses me off.

On one hand you got the liberals worrying about "Unnecessary stigmatization," and on the other hand I got my own party concerned with the "financial implications" of all of this. In the mean time who is looking out for me, the guy who wants to go out of his way to avoid an inaccurable disease with what seems to me to be an disproportionately high fatality rate?

The answer. No one.

BTW: I would trust whatever I read in the Enquirer about SARS 100% over anything my own government told me.