SARS in my city

[SevenStar]

someone is hospitalized here, but in stable condition thus far - according to reports, he has SARS

[shaolin kungfu]

:eek:

[Guile]

:eek:

[Royal Dragon]

You live where agian?

[GreyMystik]

why is sars such a big deal to everyone? i don't get it...
seriously :confused: :confused: :confused:

[MasterKiller]

Because Elain Gonzales went home and we beat up Iraq.

The news has nothing else to cover.

[Kristoffer]

sorta like Aids

[norther practitioner]

You should bring the guy some flowers......:D :eek:

[PHILBERT]

Except you gotta get laid to get aids (unless ya get blood on/in you from an infected person). With SARS you just gotta be there. At least with AIDS...you get, well...laid.

[Surferdude]

I dont belive in SARS... i think if you dont belive in it, it wont get to you.:D
But still it sounds pretty weird:mad: **** SARS now I cant go to Hong Kong.:mad:

[Xebsball]

Philbert is very correct

[Repulsive Monkey]

What city do you live in 7star?
Yougot to be careful because the recent information that they have published in the UK is false. Yesterday I heard that theyhave confirmed that there is just one single case of someone having SARS, which is absolute rubbish. A nurse friend of mine told me 3 weeks ago that she wasn't supposed to say anything but at her private clinic they had two people there and one of them was dying with it.
As ever don't put all your faith in the media. Just think about who controls it firstly, AND WHY???

[Mr Punch]

SARS won't get you if you stop breathing.

[Former castleva]

There was one SARS case in here too,I think.
He seems to have recovered.

[Kristoffer]

..Just stay the **** away from my country... stupid virus

[David Jamieson]

Here's some facts about sars that are indidcative of the whole media slam being just nothing better to report and hyping a disease that will be highly unlikely to effect the greater part of humanity.

It is fatal in 4% of the people who acquire it. Those people are generally old and already have a compromised immune system from another disease usually.

Most of the people who contract it are health care workers who are in close quarters with people who are sick with it.

Most people recover from it but are a little weakened for about 1 month following their recovery dependant upon their own strength.

it will kill less people than aids, in fact, more people will die this year from smoking related illnesses than will die from sars in 10 years.

and finally, another small truism, you have a better chance of strangling yourself to death with your bedsheets while you sleep than you have of contracting and dieing from sars.

I see it as a lame attempt for the Mediacl associations to grab some limelight and credibility. NOthing "scary" has happened since Aids and I think the medical associations need to reposition themselves in the eyes of society as the demi gods they felt they once were.

boo and hiss to the media for playing this up to the level of paranoid garbage that they have.

cheers

[guohuen]

My God I hope that never happens again, the ignorant pratts!

[Former castleva]

It has been said that roughly half of the elderly dies,nothing to fool around with.

[Royal Dragon]

It has been said that roughly half of the elderly dies,nothing to fool around with.

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Actually, 100% of the elderly die. They are old, old people die.

Seriously, has anyone ever heard of an old person who either has not died, or is not getting closer and closer to dieing? I mean, being old means your time is comming soon.

The only way to prevent old people form dying, is to never let them get born in the first place.

[Former castleva]

Yes,yes...I even know of young people dying but I´m seriously concerned if you happened to miss my point,which I cannot believe. :)

[omarthefish]

Here's something scary about SARS.

In the city I have lived for the past 2 1/2 years, my GF can't go home to see her mom without first stopping at the hospital for inspection. There is a special entry and exit permit that has been issued to the residents of my housing complex. I am unable to return home to her because my job evaporated when the WHO warning came out. The busses are empty. The internet bars are closed. Nobody went home from school during the national holiday in May. Lower income shopkeepers are selling out their inventory and returning to the countryside to live as peasants because nobody is out shopping anymore.

Although the death rate is fairly low, when compared with the general virulence of the disease and the number of people who catch it, a lot of people may still die from it. Even if you don't die, being laid up with a 104 fever for a week and generally sick for a month is scary enough for me. I would still return to Xi'an in a flash but the economy has been destroyed by this thing. The timing is horrible. It can clamp down our airports and entertainment centers. It's impact is being felt.

[chen zhen]

You could actually say that 100% all of all people will die:eek:

percentages can fool ya:cool:

[GunnedDownAtrocity]

i was just about to add that chen.

my sociaology teacher told us that 100% of all people who eat apples will die.

i agree that the whole sars isssue has been severely uplayed too. i just worry about my daughter. any word on how kids deal with it?

[Xebsball]

i wish my sociology teacher was cool like that
she did got beat up by a student last semester, that must have been awsome

[joedoe]

Originally posted by GunnedDownAtrocity
i was just about to add that chen.

my sociaology teacher told us that 100% of all people who eat apples will die.

i agree that the whole sars isssue has been severely uplayed too. i just worry about my daughter. any word on how kids deal with it?

I had heard it affects kids differently to adults, and kids are more likely to survive.

[GunnedDownAtrocity]

well thats good news then.