[riri]

We have far too many people living from paycheck to paycheck who will resist sensible quarantine, if we ever figure out what that is

I said the same thing a few days ago. Also, we have many people who work the type of jobs where if you don't work, you don't get paid. To make it worse, many of these jobs are in the service sector where would-be patients come into contact with the public.

Can you imagine trying to quarantine after, say, a Super Wal-mart checker has come down with SARS and went to work with symtoms for two days, as the high school student in Toronto did?

[Judith Anne]

That's an excellent point...

All quarantines rely on voluntary compliance, in the last analysis, unless we are going to execute people the way the Chicoms do...

How are we going to solve this problem, friends? Let's give the CDC and WHO some help on this, if we can--we already think they're reading our threads, let's see if we have any good ideas for them...