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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (29213)	3/24/2003 10:45:20 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

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

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (29213)	7/5/2003 11:28:46 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

<I am very interested in the girl and her father who died of flu in the past week or two and her brother who is in isolation and gravely ill. I wonder whether that won't be the big news story of 2003. All other events might become inconsequential> Well, that's the end of sars, at least until winter when we'll find out whether the mutant forms are on the loose or not. Now Hong Kongese feel brave enough to get out onto the streets in 100s of 1000s to reiterate their desire for freedom from bureaucratic bossy-britches in Beijing. The news has moved. Al Q is in big trouble, though still doing some suicide bombing, drive bys, a few attacks in Saudi Arabia and here and there, sars is dead [for now], Saddam has gone [though maybe still hiding and paying for drive bys], Uncle Al KBE has kept the monetary menagerie tamed, people are being rapidly redeployed to useful things such as doorman instead of overpaid speculative financial trader, the greenhouse effect isn't a big worry, oil prices are reasonable [with lots of room to fall], Made in China is giving the world's economy a turbo charge, CDMA2000 is swishing through cyberspace, WMDs didn't go bang in Noo Yawk or London, Japan is still defying the doomsters [years after their predicted demise], the Asian Contagion is a distant memory, Long Term Capital Management's Globalstar induced blow up is dragged out for shroud-waving purposes over derivative mountains [with Warren Buffett and Charlie guessing there'll be a big crunch sometime] but is otherwise forgotten, unemployment in the USA [and everywhere] is within normal bounds while mass redeployment is carried out [along with pay cuts], the biotelecosmictechdot.com revolution continues to boom, with eBay and others wayyyyyy off their lows and wireless cyberspace taking off, the Aztecs are in disarray, chanting their incantations to doom and running up mountains to await the second coming. Nothing can go wrong, Mqurice eBay nearing all time high with $1 a share profit. siliconinvestor.com Amazon isn't doing all that badly either.