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There seems to be in some quarters some lack of appreciation that the responses both to global terrorism and to SARS are not intended to be to scale with what has happened, but with what could well happen if left unchecked. That SARS has killed only a few hundred people in a period of time when many times that have died in car accidents is material insofar as car accidents are contagious and have room to spread. It certainly seems that if no precautions were taken, this illness would be passed around and kill many people; it's contagious enough that it seems reasonable to suppose that, if it didn't disrupt travel plans at all, a large fraction of the world population would be exposed. I'm not Canadian, and I'm not bearing some of the costs here, but I think it's probably a good idea to take significant steps to keep this thing contained as best we can, certainly until we understand it better. |
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