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SARS Contained
The World Health Organization has declared that SARS is contained, for now. Toronto has engaged in extensive analysis of the outbreak there, leading to a number of interesting and in-depth stories about the progression of the disease.
Sars can be seen in just about any supermarket in the country now... See for example http://big5.xinhuanet.com/gate/big5/news.xinhuanet .com/english/2003-05/21/content_879849.htm
The civet's out of the bag?
Ehem, sorry, couldn't resist it... damn those Southpark kids!
people would just leave the monkies alone!!!
I take it you're volunteering to be a candidate for herd-thinning?
"Software is too expensive to build cheaply"
...and let that be a lesson to you.
Make sure the seals on the building you use for bio-weapon testing are solid.
Who stole my tinfoil hat?
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The container has been misplaced...
...bad for lunch.
I live in Toronto, and all the great asian restaurants near work were half-empty instead of jam-packed due to SARS overreaction. I had never had such an easy time getting a table for lunch.
Oh well... the dream is over.
When the terrorist biological weapon hits, releasing some robust, vaccine-resistant mutation of smallpox, whichever city it lands in will do its best to keep it under wraps so as not to damage its tourism industry. SARS was benign. I am not encouraged.
Nerd Rock In Progress
I personally give credit to their anit-virus software. Why else would this be on /.?
Waiting for ad.doubleclick.net...
That 10% death rate is inflated. First of all, most of the people that got it was already in the hospital for one reason or another. They count it as a SARS death if there's 1% chance that it was due to SARS.
I live in Toronto, and some think SARS is great. That's right, cheap theatre tickets, low hotel rates, no waiting for a table at your favourate restaurant. Easy to find parking, and there's always the obligatory "SARS discounts". To quote , "WE LOVE SARS!".
But seriously, no offence to the people who have really sufferred from this sickness, but this thing is over-hyped. If you just watched CNN, you'd think everybody in Toronto was getting it left and right. And where the heck do they find all those people with SARS masks? I've been all over Toronto in the past few months and haven't seen one single person wear a mask except on TV (pictures of hospital workers).
Years later, a doctor will tell me that I have an I.Q. of 48, and am what some people call "mentally retarded".
"Oh dear God, the people posting messages stating that SARS was over-hyped and nothing serious are really, really looking like twits."
Just wait till winter, then they will probably look worse.
> Make sure the seals on the building you use for bio-weapon testing are solid.
We don't use seals, they're just not smart enough, and every time the French guys start talking about them, the English guys start laughing. It's just too hard to get anything done with seals in Canada as long as the government continues to mandate a bilingual top-secret workforce.
We do use Dolphins, though. And they're solid; hell, they're built like brick shit houses! Members of the elite Dolphin Guard even have special filters covering their blow holes. (Previously, two Dolphin Guards were compromised by delayed-trigger grenades which were set to detonate when the guards got close to sensitive areas).
Do daemons dream of electric sleep()?