I know. My post was a response to a suggestion made by FL_Engineer to ignore posts from _Jim.
As concerns your graph, thanks for posting it. Personally, if I were creating/posting it, I would exclude all data from China and Taiwan as obviously flawed.
The resulting graph would show a very encouraging trend. The cause would either be a strong seasonal factor to SARS, successful containment efforts, or both. My bet would be on both. However, regardless of the reason for the currently improving numbers, we will not know what to expect from SARS until we hit the next cold/flu season.