[wimpycat]

I've been paying only cursory attention to the SARS coverage, and I had no trouble hearing about Bush's quarantine order.

[Fred Mertz]

Oh, you missed the announcement of that executive order?

Yes I did.

[wimpycat]

You tell me.

OK, I'll bite. You're a paranoid, tinfoil wearing, black helicopter spotting NUT!

[RS]

Can someone link to this E.O. ?

[Restorer]

So why all the fuss over a strain of pneumonia?

Because it is apparently highly contagious and has a 6-10% mortality rate?

The author apparently thinks that similar symptoms mean it can't be a very different disease. Not true. It's astonishing how many diseases are listed as having flu-like symptoms. Among others, anthrax.

[konaice]

What a bunch of drivel...

Amazeing how cooperative those Chinees have been in this so called little Psy Ops expiriment. They sacrificed 1500 people so that Bush could issue an executive order for Quarentine.!!!

[sinkspur]

Ariel Sharon knew that planes would be flown into the WTC two hours before it happened. He also knew that Bush was behind those planes, just so he could clamp down on innocent American citizens.

I hear it EVERY DAY on C-SPAN, so it must be true.

[anymouse]

So when are you planning your next trip to Southern China?

Those hundreds of dead SARS victims in China and Canada would beg to differ with this author's dismissal of the seriousness of SARS. The medical professionals treating vicims of SARS might also disagree with his poor excuse for humor as they risk their own lives to treat SARS victims.

This is a nasty bug that needs to be handled properly, before it gets out of hand. Had China sought professional help in battling this disease much earlier, many of these people would not have been exposed to SARS and few would have died.

SARS may do what no reformer has been able to accomplish - force the ChiComms to open up their records, else risk becoming isolated from the rest of the World's economy.

Who wants to travel to China (or Hong Kong) for business or as a tourist now? That has to be the most daunting question on the minds of China's leaders and their trading partners.

[Jorge]

This reminds me of the lunatics who are still running around denying there is any such disease as AIDS.
Incredible.

[Norse]

Good job Bush on the quarantine order. I don't want some fat, inconsiderate, contaminated SARS host sneezing on me

[thoughtomator]

There is no conspiracy.

[Nick Danger]

[Arkinsaw]

There is no SARS. That is why the Chinese just announced that they are closing every public and entertainment venue in the city of Beijing for no reason.

[Cachelot]

Investigative reporter Jon Rappoport

Sigh. Not this idiocy again. Jon Rappoport, the favourite of luminaries like Birdman Bryant? "News with views", the kooky site that is a runner-up on LibertyForum after Stormfront, IHR and "information clearing house"?

Please take your insanity elsewhere. Like, Toronto.

[Arkinsaw]

I assure you, there is no SARS. SARS does not exist. I am not worried and you should not be worried either. These are all lies. Lies I tell you. Lies of the criminal Bush. There is no SARS. I think someone maybe just had some bad dairy.

[fourdeuce82d]

THERE'S MORE TO THIS THAN WE'RE BEING TOLD

My panties are bunched, my nipples are twisted...help me- is this a Black Helicopter thing, or more of a HAARP thing?

Enquiring Minds Want to Know...

[Prospero]

"Ben Franklin would be mightily ashamed of us for how easily we're allowing ourselves to be enslaved"

Just a moment... Didn't Franklin himself oversee the quarantine of parts of Philadelphia, as an official of that city, many years before the Revolution?

I weakly recall some real controvery with the families in those areas... perhaps Yellow Fever or cholera, the latter quite common in 18th Century Phily.

[thegreatbeast]

There are different strains of SARS like there are different "strains" of AIDS. The US SARS is not nearly as deadly as that experienced in the Far East. American AIDS is a completely different set of diseases than is that that comprises African AIDS.
But so much of what is being passed out as reportage is poopycock. Recently I'd heard a report that posited that SARS was some bacteriological/viriological hybrid which I hope to God is impossible.
I think we are a long way off from knowing what is what with SARS.
Meanwhile, the interested parties are scrambling for the research and ancillary monies and making ridiculous and scary claims in the process.

[aruanan]

And exactly how much media attention did this executive order to QUARANTINE Americans receive?

Yoo hoo, Mary! There were already provisions in place for the federal government to quarantine for certain diseases. SARS was just added to the list. Let's see if we can coax you down out of the tree and smooth your hackles.

Bush issued an executive order adding severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, to the list of illnesses for which the government can order someone held to prevent contagion.

It is the first time in 20 years that the list of diseases subject to federal quarantine has been expanded. In 1983, the disease caused by the deadly Ebola virus was added. The last time anyone was detained in a federal quarantine was in 1963, to prevent the spread of smallpox.

Bush Puts New Disease On U.S. Quarantine List
BYLINE: Rob Stein, Washington Post Staff Writer

[aruanan]

3) Could it be because sick people in places with lousy medical care and sanitation usually die anyway from things that don't effect [sic] people with better health care?

Mary, in this sentence you've told us all we need to know about your powers of analysis.