Sierraville, California
I have made my way to the Sierraville hot springs this afternoon for a little R & R. I have to be back in Carson tomorrow at 9:00 Am to pick up BC.
For those of you new to my writing style - I find that writing these threads is best done in a “flow of consciousness” manner.
I prefer not to get too structured or formal, so from time to time I will interject my current surroundings with my story. For those that this drives crazy - sorry.
Which brings me to the Sierra Nevada Mountains and one of the best hot springs in the world.
It is early afternoon and I have been waiting for housekeeping to clean my room and let me unpack. So far no luck. There was only one room left at the Globe hotel and there were none at the lodge.
So I will try to post a bit more tonight during supper, but it is really a lovely place.
James
Carson City, Nevada
J: MA I know that you don't like to talk about the SARS threads, but I have so many emails since I wrote the original article several years ago that I feel obligated to try and relay a few of those questions to you. Would you mind?
MA: Oh, I suppose not James.
J: Mostly people want to know about your original post “Precognition” where you originally alerted the Internet about the unexplained pneumonia cases in China.
Why did you choose to use Free Republic as the vehicle to post that thread?
MA: Well James it is not as complicated as it may seem. I do not have a computer and use WebTv on my TV to read the Internet. And Free Republic is one of the few sites that is workable on WebTv. Most of the others have too much junk and are really not compatible.
J: And you chose to post on SARS because?
MA: Fear son. It is hard to imagine how little we knew and how exponentially this threat grew in the first few days. I doubt anyone realizes just how mobilized and cooperative the scientific community was during that first week. I felt everyone needed to know what was transpiring in real time. And for an epidemiologist this was one very bad bug with a ticket to ride right into our West Coast.
J: Interesting. Were you really frightened?
MA: Very much so.
J: MA thank you for that, I must have had a hundred people looking for that answer.
MA: James, would you like a drink now? I have a bottle of Tangueray handy.