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Latest on Hoping Hospital: There are 19 SARS cases. For this they "quarantined" 500 nurses, many of whom were on vacation or had been cleared of the disease.

Today, government officials are calling on Hoping nurses who were *outside the country on vacation* to come back to Taiwan and report for "quarantine."

If someone's been out of the country for 10 days on vacation, why in the world would you force them to report for "quarantine"? You wouldn't, unless what you were actually asking them to report for "involuntary servitude."

Consider this--let's be generous and assume that each SARS patient requires 10 nurses (2-4 for each 8 hour shift). There are 19 cases, do the math. So, why force all 500 nurses into Hoping? Why not, instead, ask for volunteers? Offered extra pay? My sister-in-law would have gladly volunteered.

Now the nurses have been told that they will be at Hoping for at least 30 days. The Taiwan media is closing ranks to help the government cover up its unjustified actions. Now they are even turning the nurses into targets for attack (e.g., how dare they refuse to serve their nation? etc.).