[friendly]

There has been an obvious ChiCom cover-up.

With a death rate of 5% or higher, SARS is "The Stand Lite" and has the serious potential to ravage the world economy. For example, 80% (!) of the world's microwave ovens are made in the SARS ground zero region near Hong Kong.

[CathyRyan]

Yikes! I know a lady that will not buy any packaged food or cooked food that can not be microwaved. She stores dishes in her oven and uses her range top as counter space.

[Domestic Church]

At the beginning and noted here on FR, several nations claimed right off that this was germ warfare. It was never refuted but a lid was definitly placed upon that idea, more for panic suppression I think.