SAR Wars - I've been watching, and so have you, and we've already seen the following:
- Infected hotel visitors infecting countless people from other countries, probably just by standing in the same elevator, who then carry the disease to many other countries, and infect their family members and their health care workers;
- Infected people who continue to go about their jobs as couriers, which means flying from country to country, as many as three or four countries in a day, infecting as they go;
- Infected brides who insist on having their wedding anyway, infecting family and guests, and the health care workers who take care of them;
- Infected members of tightly-knit religious groups, who infect most of their fellow members;
- Super-infectors who infect 25%-50% of the health care workers who care for them;
- Infected apartment buildings, with SARS being spread by roaches and by defective plumbing, so that at least 50% of the residents are infected;
- Entire hospitals being quarantined, with nobody allowed to come in or go out;
- Entire schools being shut down;
- Terrified city residents fleeing into the countryside, where they are rejected by frightened villagers who have barridaded their village;
- Travellers being forced into isolation upon their return;
- Vacationers being quarantined for the entire length of their vacation;
- Entire factories and office buildings shut down and their workers being forced to stay home;
- A death rate that is in the range of 10%, and a significant percentage, probably higher, of people who remain disabled upon recovery.
Is the US ready for this? I don't think so.
Is your country ready for this? I don't think so. |
