[BureaucratusMaximus]

OK...from all the thread about SARS, and upon researching this myself...I can only come up with the following conclusions (speculative of course):

1) The U.S. health care system can deal with, and treat Americans who come down with this disease effectively with minimal loss of life

2) Asian people seem to be less immune from this disease than Americans; more Asians are catching it and dying from it. This may have to do with the quality of health care or immune differences across races OR a combination of both (its a stretch I know)

3) China has "accidently" created and proliforated this virus as a means of subtle population control.

[ex-Texan]

Perhaps ... perhaps.

The virus is still mutating. If a huge epidemic begins in Tortonto we will soon know the truth.

By the way, the you see that baseball teams are up in arms about going to Toronto to play? The Mayor of Toronto is upset because of SARS effect on the baseball season. One Scenenario: So the teams are forced to play in Toronto in front of empty seats and then contract the disease ... and take it home to their own cities.

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

3) China has "accidently" created and proliforated this virus as a means of subtle population control.

Not.

The virus first appeared in Guangdong province, the heart of China's economic engine. Their government is not keen on committing national economic suicide.