[Russell Scott]

In other news, over 300 elderly Americans died today from complications of the flu, which annually kills over twenty thousand elderly Americans. What is strange is none them had SARS.

[FITZ]

In other news, over 300 elderly Americans died today from complications of the flu, which annually kills over twenty thousand elderly Americans. What is strange is none them had SARS.

That's kind of how I feel ---not that we should ignore SARS but there's no reason to panic until we know more about it. I'm kind of tired of all the scares ---swine flu, hantavirus, west nile and all the rest ---the fear of the epidemic is worse than the epidemic actually is.