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To: Road Walker who wrote (173594)	3/15/2003 7:36:37 PM
From: tcmay	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Time to hunker in the bunker! "Sounding more serious. This guy was showing symptoms while he was attending a medical conference in New York. How many people did he come in contact with? Much more scary than terrorism. "WHO Issues Advisory on Atypical Pneumonia " "Until we can get a grip on it, I don't see how it will slow down," WHO spokesman Dick Thompson said in Geneva. "People are not responding to antibiotics or antivirals, it's a highly contagious disease and it's moving around by jet. It's bad." " Could be an emergent bug. Could be just one of the usual cycles (of virulent flus and pneumonias). Such as the Flu Pandemic of 1918 (which killed one of my uncles and several other more distant relatives). Or it could even be a bioengineered Super Bug, released by North Korea or Saddam or the CIA. Whatever, this will further kill the travel industry if it escalates by a factor of, say, 10. So long as it remains localized and rare, ARS will probably just be a blip on the radar screen. But if it crops up in a few dozen cities, with a bunch more people dying, then people will cancel airline trips. Which means the airline industry, already teetering on the edge of widespread bankruptcies (911 fears, security hassles, high jet fuel prices), will likely go into a deep depression. I can't say I'll miss most of the airlines. Inefficient, rude, cattlecars in the sky. Too much flitting around the country on business, anyway. (The recent cases of security screeners leaving notes about the books and magazines of the people they screen is just another nail in their coffin...some would say that those screeners have earned tthe harshest of sanctions for their actions.) --Tim May

To: Road Walker who wrote (173594)	3/16/2003 3:48:35 AM
From: Amy J	Respond to of 186894

Hi John, Someone called me this weekend to ask if an industry technical conference is still going on this week in the USA - people are flying in from London, etc. I figure int'l conferences that involve travelers from Asia/CN/EU are okay unless CNN.com/SJMN say otherwise. I suggested folks avoid sodas stored in buckets of waters (that everyone puts their dirty hands in). Avoid the finger food, minimize shaking hands, wash hands, cover coughs/sneezes. Common sense stuff. Someone I was suppose to meet with a couple of days ago cancelled because she has Pneumonia. I would assume they know what type it is right away. The other trip (to HK) is being cancelled, since it's not a critical trip. There was a report in SJMN that Joe Osha at Merryl Lynch said something like, stocks should go up if nothing bad happens. (Or something like that). I remember thinking, what more could happen? "WHO issued its first global alert for 10 years earlier this week because of the speed at which the disease travels and because patients are not responding to the usual treatments for pneumonia, Thompson said." news.yahoo.com "ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended Saturday that Americans consider delaying nonessential travel to countries affected by an outbreak of a rapidly spreading, severe form of pneumonia that does not appear to respond to treatment." "Also, another person who traveled from the state of Georgia to Canada appears to have been stricken with the illness, Gerberding said. "Health authorities in New York and Georgia are attempting to trace the travelers' contacts while they were in the United States, she said. " cnn.com Regards, Amy J

To: Road Walker who wrote (173594)	3/16/2003 4:11:50 AM
From: Amy J	Respond to of 186894

OT John and Thread, RE: Int'l politics nytimes.com nytimes.com "We have different views partly because we see different news. ... "But distrust of the U.S. overseas has reached such a level, even among our British allies, that a recent British poll ranked the U.S. as the world's most dangerous nation — ahead of North Korea and Iraq." ... "On Saturday, news anchors on Fox described the demonstrators in New York as "the usual protesters" or "serial protesters." CNN wasn't quite so dismissive, but on Sunday morning the headline on the network's Web site read "Antiwar rallies delight Iraq," and the accompanying picture showed marchers in Baghdad, not London or New York." "This wasn't at all the way the rest of the world's media reported Saturday's events..." "There are two possible explanations for the great trans-Atlantic media divide. One is that European media have a pervasive anti-American bias ".... or "some U.S. media outlets — operating in an environment in which anyone who questions the administration's foreign policy is accused of being unpatriotic — have taken it as their assignment to sell the war" Regards, Amy J