[Carry_Okie]

You could be right about the border and birds, but there has been a less than completely satisfying association between the presence of coronavirus and SARS.

Avoiding infection may come down to relative isolation and personal hygene and the one place I would not want to be is in a hospital near the border (my wife is an RN). From what I have seen, infection control practices have become very lax, and the tolerance for sick employees on the floor is way too high.

I almost wish that I was back in the viral barrier protection business again. Almost.

[FITZ]

The bad thing about the border is that we know that Mexico never takes care it's own problems but will ship them over to us ---if an epidemic does break out in Mexico, the ill will be sent to the US for their medical care just as they do with the others. They already figure they have a right to free medical care here so the border hospitals would be filled up by Mexican nationals and the epidemic could spread from there.