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To: willcousa who wrote (174069)	4/10/2003 2:47:40 AM
From: Amy J	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Hi willcousa, why is the USA going to wait until a crisis happens before we step-up our preventive measures against SARS? My brother who is a doctor says his male patients statistically as a group tend to wait until a crisis happens & it's a bit too late to take significantly effective preventive action, while he says statistically his female patients as a group tend to deal with their medical issues quicker so he has some room to do something preventive with them (he's a cardiologist.) Regarding SARS, why isn't the government: - releasing flight information of any planes (date, time, flight #) that had people on the infected SARS plane to all people? - mandate that airplanes tell you what their air-filter quality is (most popular planes have as low as 40% filtering effectiveness) - why don't airlines have an immediate way to contact people who were on board a SARS infected flight? - why are we enabling so much travel to infected areas? - why don't we mandate that corporations not travel to infected areas? GM is one of the few companies whose policy is doing it right. (Maybe HP too). - why don't we step up inspections of SARS cases on planes? - why don't we mandate SARS testing for anyone from an infected area? - and my favorite... why don't we all just stay at home for 12 days (max incubation period) and take time off without pay, and just let it all pass? : ) If we're all at home, it can't spread. Well, I guess we can infect those at home - where do they put quarantined people? In hospitals I hope. edit: here's a thought... what a boom to broadband, if we all worked from home... just kidding. 2nd edit: At work, I created a policy that if someone has traveled to an infected area (or has visited with a close friend or close relative from an infected area within the past 12 days), they get to stay at home for 12 days. People took note, and one employee's spouse is canceling a business trip to an infected area. I also distributed some common sense tips. Regards, Amy J