<Of 29 specimens sent to Dr Plummer so far from the nursing homes, 12 have tested positive for Sars.
The laboratory also found antibodies to Sars in some patients, including one who had died from pneumonia, a sure sign that these patients had contracted Sars at some point. >
Henry, 1 dead of 12 infected is near enough to 10% which is what sars has done in the past. Okay, 1 dead person is not a greatly significant number, but it's a significant number to that person and given that they had sars bugs in them, and we know sars kills people, I guess it was the sars that did the killing and not the butler or the plumber.
At this rate, the baby boomers and older are in trouble. The unfunded pension schemes might be okay when sars has killed 15% - 20% of people over age 65. That will also cause a lot of housing vacancies and a drop in real estate prices. The medical guilds will lose a lot of regular customers. The pharmaceutical industry will lose a lot of sales.
Life is full of surprises - usually bad. Good things take a lot of hard work and the results aren't usually a surprise.
It's funny how the Chinese authorities were accused of being in denial as though that was a commie trick, but now the Canadian authorities are in denial. Holocaust deniers are uncool, but the holocaust that sars could be would make the Nazi effort look trivial. We'll know in a couple of months whether River City has indeed got trouble with a capital T.
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