[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

[discostu]

While quarantining the hospital MIGHT be a good idea (not in this case, SARS simply isn't that contagious), but this was totally out of control. Hell yes I'd report it, the death rate is dropping now that we're figuring out how to treat the illness. I'm one of the most reluctant people in the world to go to a doctor (I generally only go to doctors for things I can't make stop bleeding, I hate doctors and I hate admitting I've been felled by some germ), but with a 1-in-20 chance of dieing even I know you've got better odds being truthful and getting medicated than by toughing it out. Anyway the quarantine area is probably light duty.