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Bluewave, I'm wrong of course. There are people on home respirators/mechanical ventilation, but (evidently I have limited knowlege and freely admitted ignorance) they have to be in a hospital to be put on one...mostly they are spinal injury patients.

I'm sorry for passing along misinformation, I really try not to do that.

No problem.

I was simply trying to illustrate my belief that the health care system will break down early in an outbreak. Everyone I talk to about SARS, believes the disease is under control and people simply go to the hospital and get well.

I don't expect the general public to be knowledgeable but some health care professionals are equally ignorant. I was talking to an RN friend of mine yesterday. She said SARS would not be a problem because we have good hospitals. She is evidently not a FREEPER.