[Bluewave]

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.

[Judith Anne]

Thanks for your understanding, I felt like an idiot.

One fellow nurse was adamant that the borders would be closed. She is sure of it. I'm not, at all. Plus, consider the coastlines...

If there is a serious wave of outbreaks this fall, I suspect that a number of people will be on their own, at least for a good while...it concerns me, too.