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To: Henry Niman who wrote (44576)	1/12/2004 5:52:57 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

I suppose like the rest of us, bugs have their vacations and busy seasons when they are flat out getting on with the job at hand. Sars seems to have holidays for 7 months and work for 5 months. Not a bad deal! Bird flu starts work a bit sooner. While in Beijing, I spent 3 days in bed and plenty of people were hocking and bocking so there were plenty of other bugs already on the job. I suppose Sars is the Main Event, so the rest are just pre-game warm-up shows. I remain hopeful that fast and widespread control will minimize sars. People aren't exactly ready for it, but more ready than last year. The masks will be out quickly. Isolation will be faster. No toleration of sneezing people at work, or elsewhere = a cultural shift to NO SNEEZING or COUGHING IN PUBLIC. People will adopt bowing to each other like the Japanese instead of the filthy hand-shaking ritual. Food will be served piping hot. Cooks will wear masks so that when they say "Potato and pumpkin with the peas" while preparing food they don't spray the food with micro droplets of saliva = plosive sounds spray particles by the thousand. Sars doesn't have a chance. Then we'll invent a vaccine. Hah! Take that sars. Mqurice