[discostu]

See this is the kind of craziness I fear when people start talking about mass quarentines. Apparently some idiot decided on zero notice and with no preplanning to quarentine an entire hospital because it had SARS patients. Nobody bothered bringing food and water or warning visitors for other patients not to show up. They just locked the doors and turned off the AC. They couldn't even be bothered to properly secure the perimeter so people escaped via the ground floor windows. Unreasoning fear causes dangerously stupid actions, the good news is that so far nobody has died, if this paranoid behavior keeps going on we won't continue to be so lucky.

[Nov3]

Apparently some idiot decided on zero notice and with no preplanning to quarentine an entire hospital because it had SARS patients.

Despite the author's viewpoint the reason they are quarantining hospitals is because it is spreading among the staff. You just can't let the staff wander around in a case like this. If you were a member of the staff who came down with a mild flu that MIGHT be SARS would you report it knowing that you would be quarantined with real SARS patients? Hell no. They have to quarantine after any staff has the disease.

That being said it was as you said poorly planned