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[chastenosferatu]

SARS hysteria has really blown this thing out of proportion, more people died in the US last year of West Nile Virus than have died of SARS in China but the WHO didn't hit the US with a travel advisory, on average 30,000 people die from influenza each year in the US alone... let's get a little perspective people. Just for levity I submit the following link:

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/EE03Ad01.html

Enjoy,
Brian

[Egas]

Sorry Mr C. (not typing your whole damn name, that's for sure), but I beat you to the gun by about three weeks. Anyway, I'll step back into the distance and watch 'em blaze away at ya.

[kimo]

See the complete Washington Post story on the Actual Facts thread started by Hamish.

[gerard]

Sorry nosferatu but I couldn't fight my way through that. I have a bit of sense left despite all the drinking.

It;s a case of show me the money!!! If Asia did'nt build widgets for America nobody would give a damn about SARS. (See Malaria in Africa.)

It is all a conspiracy of the American Hairdressing Foundation.

[chinasyndrome]

[quote="gerard"]

[arioch36]

I'm really confused, you mean there are Americans who put dresses on hairs, or Americans who dress Foundation with hairs. If the latter, then I think it good, Foundations ought not be naked, it's shameless. But if they are putting dresses on hair, I think this is stupid, especially for girls. Girls have pretty hair.

Here in Henan, where every day people die from other non-SARS pneuomonias, the local farmers, who are being taught by the political leaders this is the next dark death, have been burning down the house (or at least a couple of the would be SARS hospitals)

[Egas]

Some of the nonsense about SARS is underwhelming. We have 1800 kids at my school, and lots and lots of buses which come and go each day. Anyway, one of the local villages decided that they would not let our buses pass through the village any more because SARS would infect them via the bus tires. The school security manager had an emergency meeting with the village idiots and came to a compromise. There are now long red carpets at the gates of the school, which are sprayed with disinfectant each day, so that the bus tyres will be cleansed of the evil little beasties. The biggest joke is that they are not spraying disinfectant at all, but tap water!

There have been no SARS cases here in the school community. The hygiene and disinfectant measures are excellent here. Somehow I suspect we are in more danger of getting SARS from the villagers than we are of giving it to them from the bus. Which reminds me of a song:

The wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round, round and round.
The students on the bus go "What a bunch of ignorant paranoid morons you guys are. Get a f..ing life."