[CathyRyan]

I am sorry I am going to sit in the corner and be quiet. I have read so much and things have gone back and forth so much that I do not know if I am coming or going. IIRC there was an article in April that talked about someone contracting sars from someone before that person shows symptons. I wish the search engine on FR was good enough to find that needle in that hay stack. Maybe someone else remembers the article. I believe it was two health care workers.

[CathyRyan]

Night all! :)

[Concentrate]

I've read a lot of the SARS threads, but I can't remember that particular one. Diseases being so complicated, it's not illogical to entertain the possibility that one can infect others without yet having symptoms.

I hope this is just something that will pass. If I get SARS, I think I'll just stay home and deal with it. I've never been in a hospital before, and I think I'd rather do it at home. I'm in an industry which puts me on the front lines. I don't want to spend months in a hospital room and then die anyway, or have permanent lung, liver or kidney damage.

I suspect that many in China and other places feel the same way as I do.

[Domestic Church]

"...there was an article in April that talked about someone contracting sars from someone before that person shows symptons."

There were several instances (someone traveling in supposed good health from Toronto to Australia and then infecting their parents rings a bell) in several articles that implicated incubation as being a contagious period. The entire situation in China fits this. Quarantine should be extended for a month after recovery. That entire school should have been quarantined away from their families (barracks?) under a more controlled atmosphere and their families should be watched daily for a month. Also some watchdog agency should start legal saber rattling (class action?) against the authorities in Canada who are remiss in handling this crisis.(Maybe that will snap some US heads.)