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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group

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To: Ilaine who wrote (97059)5/1/2003 4:25:26 PM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
Politicians react late - they aren't leaders [they follow the crowd from in front, checking over their shoulders to make sure they are at the head of the parade]. While the Iraqi smoke is settling down and people get on with the real business of fighting over who gets the money from the oil, there's a big problem looming.

Sure, Sars isn't as spectacular as 911, live on tv, complete with people jumping to their deaths, but it's just as fatal. There's only one Osama and some wannabes. He doesn't double daily, mutate and slip through unnoticed at airport security, to kill by the million.

Sars does. When people see their parents, spouse and children gasping for breath and in many cases dying, they'll get serious. But it's too late once you are on a ventilator. If there's a ventilator available.

They should ignore North Korea for now. Let them have their nukes for now. Focus on the serious business. If Koreans or politicians get Sars, they won't be worried so much about nukes. They'll be busy trying to breathe.

Mqurice
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