[bvw]

First Rule of a panic situation is "DON'T PANIC!". Yet PANIC seems the rule there -- I hope your sister-in-law is okay.

[zook]

Thanks. She keeps calling us and she sounds fine so far. But she's on tap to begin treating SARS patients soon. Actually, she would have volunteered, but she hates the idea of being lured into this absurd scheme.

Now I'm hoping that we'll be alright. What if, for example, some student in my daughter's school got a fever one day. Might they quarantine the school? We are in southern Taiwan where people aren't so worried about this right now. But I guess the disease is creeping this way.

I have a lot to post on my web site, but I can't access the server right now. Maybe I'll post it here. Thanks again for your concern.