Hmm, now a month ago and this sars bug, seems to be gaining ground, despite intensive efforts to quarantine it. A week ago, it seemed to be stalled and going nowhere. That made me think it had been rounded up and was on the way out.
Now, it seems that it's off and running, albeit at a relatively slow rate.
Singapore is taking it seriously, wisely in my opinion. They have quarantined nearly 1000 people for 10 days in their homes.
This disease has the potential to significantly reduce the world's population and certainly the world's economic activity.
Jay, what's the word on the street? <Restaurants here are becoming less busy, and many visitors are canceling trips as the illness, called SARS, for severe acute respiratory syndrome, continued to spread. Some residents are wearing face masks whenever they leave home, and many stores have sold out of masks. Health officials told doctors to wear masks not just in hospitals but at their offices when seeing patients with routine complaints. >
The numbers are worrying. The fatality rate is high. The resulting permanent lung damage I suppose quite serious.
It's not as spectacular to die from pneumonia as a misfired Patriot missile, but it's just as fatal.
So far, the casualties for the Coalition of the Willing [Cow] and Sar Wars are comparable. 400 wounded and 15 fatalities or thereabouts. Many still in intensive care.
Kissing will go out of fashion in a big hurry!
QUALCOMM cyberphones are the way to communicate. Phragmented photon 1xEV-DO cyberphones with BREW to control any cyberspace viruses too.
Have you got your gas and bio mask Jay? Don't kiss your reflexologist in appreciation - they have a lot of customers.
Mqurice
PS: Let's hope it doesn't undergo a mutation to a virulent form. It's stroppy enough already. But the more it propagates, the more the chances of a more lethal form being created. cdc.gov |
