[NRA2BFree]

You can*t do that unless everyone has the details about which areas to avoid.

I think you just answered your own question. Can you imagine how this would hurt our struggling economy?

if people started avoiding areas they thought someone with SARS might have been, the businesses in that area would lose ALL of their customers, go broke, and end up laying off all their employees.

The government is not about to let that happen.

[Trust but Verify]

I wish you would stop it. It would be short sighted and assinine for 'the government', whoever that would include, to allow the disease to become widespread through 'cover up'. Think about what you're alleging!

[_Jim]

if people started avoiding areas they thought someone with SARS might have been,/i>

Greater risks right there in your own neighborhood include car accidents, getting hit while crossing the street, stumbling and hitting your head, horseback riding, dirt bike riding, motorcycle riding, drowning, NOT to mention all the diseases that are *natively* here already ...

[Orbiting_Rosie's_Head]

if people started avoiding areas they thought someone with SARS might have been, the businesses in that area would lose ALL of their customers

Hey, what's a few dead people, or people with permanently damaged organs? Got keep business up, you know. I believe we all have the right to know the details of the spread of this illness. And the insinuation that equals panick is insulting. It's better to know where the areas are so they the people who visited there might be contacted, also so people might avoid certain areas tempoarily. This is the easiest and fastest way to stop any possible spread. Keeping everything secret is the surest way to help spread the illness, ensuring a future panick. That's what the Chinese gov't did. They tried to keep it secret in the beginning, which helped spread the disease, which caused the current panick in Beijing.