[mabelkitty]

And it started on the same day we invaded Iraq.

My husband owes me big time. He's been making fun of me for calling this a bio attack by China.

My intent was that China was going to use it to invade Hong Kong and Taiwan under the pretense of "quarantined" and try to engage us in a war with them and North Korea.

[toast]

And it started on the same day we invaded Iraq.

Uhhhh....Not exactly.

I remember hearing of it in February. I believe I've seen articles mentioning somewhere around November for a start.

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

My intent was that China was going to use it to invade Hong Kong

Invade Hong Kong?

That would be like China invading Shanghai or Tianjin, or the United States invading Pittsburgh.

[John H K]

My intent was that China was going to use it to invade Hong Kong and Taiwan under the pretense of "quarantined" and try to engage us in a war with them and North Korea.

Why am I'm not surprised that you haven't noticed that Great Britain GAVE Hong Kong to China several years ago?

I'm also not surprised that you'd claim something from the Russian media quoting a scientist who, as best I can tell, has never actually seen or worked with the SARS virus personally, as "proof" of your belief it's a bioweapon.

It's a fascinating excercise in psychology but it makes people feel better that bad things that happen naturally were somehow deliberately caused by humans...from viruses to earthquakes. Makes the earth seem less random and less frightening, oddly enough.

[capitan_refugio]

I don't think I would call it a bio-war or bio-terror attack. I think the ChiComs have an active, on-going bio-warfare program, and one or more of their researchers got contaminated. Due to faulty (or non-existant) containment protocols, the "bug" got loose.

As I have posted on other threads, SARS is no laughing matter. It spreads as easily as the common cold and has a 4% kill ratio. Maybe another 4% of the infected population will suffer extensive pulmonary damage. And there is no guarantee that you can't catch this "cold" a second time. No one knows how long the natural anti-bodies from surviors continue on in their systems. Unlike the measles, where a survivor is unlikely to catch them a second time, who knows about SARS.

CDC should be working like crazy on a serum or vaccine. Forget AIDS research. Most people are not at rick for AIDS. Everybody (by definition) is at risk for a pandemic like SARS.

[buffyt]

I have thought it was bio-terror from day one. Just too suspicious that a whole new virus, with fatal possibilities, shows up all of a sudden.