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To: TobagoJack who wrote (31943)	4/20/2003 7:06:39 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 74559

<All in all, I am thinking this is still inexpensive education, as we could have been dealing with air transmittable Ebola or something even nastier.> Thanks for the report Jay. I'm in agreement with "This is a training course, but with a bit of live fire to make it look real". The world will be a bit more tuned up and ready to go with a more virulent disease. Also, people will permanently change habits [such as avoiding slurping from the same drink bottle or punch bowl, kissing everyone they meet on the lips, hongiing] making it tougher for diseases to move around. We could end up with a net economic benefit as hordes of other diseases lose their vectors of transmission and have to get a real job. This could be bad news for the infectious diseases medical industry. Mqurice

To: TobagoJack who wrote (31943)	4/20/2003 10:07:45 PM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

China acted normally. But in the west, any simple phenomenon has to be overblown, so that the public notice there's a bunch of civil servants that both exist and have a purpose. You know what I am talking about: A phenomenon support a lot of cases, such avoiding budget cuts, providing hints for "research" and anyone want to cash in on it. Let me give you an example: Just wait until the soldiers of the adventure talk with their lawyers and start suing. There is going to be even a novel disease the soldiers picked up in the desert. Just wait it is just a matter of time. In the case of SARS, westerners reacted badly against the Chinese because the Chinese were denying them a good phenomenon with great potential for milking for money. In the other hand with China making everything today and growing 8/9% a year, every country would like to 'torpedo' China. The lack of real economy in those OECD country is a cause for concern. They will try to carve an activity out of anything: Clouds of dust form Sahelian Africa, a bug in the lungs, a chase for a dictator...