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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (30634)	4/2/2003 6:17:22 PM
From: Cogito Ergo Sum	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

Yeah all the speculation even here is interesting. Jay with mask, mask with carbon filter, no maybe it's overblown... Elmat It's a scam .... It's all a scam I tell you ! Kastel.. Pacific mall deserted ... Yeah I can get caught up in the heat of the moment too but actually there is severe economic fallout in the Chinese business community. Kastel and energyplay posting updates, getting a few masks in case, but like most carrying on with life otherwise... Inuenndo on boards ... isn't there a Chinese bio weapons plant there ? huh ? maybe but for sure there are a lot of ducks and chickens and other fowl and lots and lots of birdie poopoo... near people that may not always have soap and water nearby... :o) We have a mystery disease that has emerged from the traditional home of our yearly flus. It's a mystery because we haven't seen it before. Really no more no less. I don't know about Asia first hand as I'm not there but here we're not hysterical even though we could be considered a 'hotspot'. The public health agencies are actually being quite proactive here for a change. After the flack they got from West Nile last year they have learned their lesson for a while at least. Like most flus it seems to be more severe on the elderly and probably young children. Authorities simply do not want to wait until a daycare or home for the aged is hit where the mortality rates would likely be higher than 4-5 %. I'm with you Mq. What the heck good is all this health care technology, communications systems and civil order from civilisation worth if we can't muster it to be proactive on something like this. Besides, 60 years ago the flu didn't regularly travel at 500+ mph... I've had pneumonia as a child, and just the fear it caused my folks was agony that would have been better forgone. SARS count up in Toronto. One elementary school reopened. One elementary school closed as a parent volunteer (probably a lunch monitor as there is a lot of that here) is probable SARS. Two people ignored voluntary quarantine and the government is now assisting them in being less selfish ;o) One outlying region taken off the hotlist. So far looks like the authorities are doing a good job here. regards Kastel