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...and if any of you do have SARS, please remember to take the time to tell us before you get any medical treatment.
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True to its nature, the WHO is about psyched up for a pandemic now.
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Funny thing is, I live down the street from the hospital where the first infections occurred. I've had a nasty cough for about three weeks now, but temp is fine and I have no trouble breathing.
I don't like the idea of the WHO and the CDC saying that Toronto is a hotbed of infection. Every case so far can be traced back to the original infection. The problem is, people are breaking orders for quarantines because they have to work and have no financial redress from their employers or their governments. And some people are just plain idiots even when they know they are at risk for infection.
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Well, some fucking moronic doctor decided to fly back to Baltimore, even though he was exhibiting some of the symptoms. Twat. Oh well, he's spending the next two-weeks in a pressure room at Johns Hopkins.
This announcement makes moving back to Mississauga from the relative safety of Waterloo, so much more fun. If I get SARS in the next four months (working in Toronto for this co-op term). I'm sure you people will be among the first ten thousand people to find out
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I get a lot of people from Toronto, well, Canada in general, here where I work, and it has cuased me some thought. I am thinking about telling my boss I need a pay raise for hazardous duty. If I ask for a mask he'll by cheaply made cheese clothe and call it good.
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I like the way the British Government is refusing to test people coming off planes from Toronto, saying it should be the responsibility of the authorities at the point of origin. Or, in other words, "we can't be bothered."
But think about it - what's the incubation period for the bug, the amount of time before symptoms appear? Because if it's more than about 7-8 hours, a rough guesstimate of the flight time from Toronto to Heathrow, surely letting an infected person into an enclosed tube with several hundred other people all breathing the same air (I know they haven't positively identifed the bug as airborne-transmitted, but it's still a viable hypothesis at this point) who aren't going to be showing any signs of increased tmperature when they arrive should they be infected in-flight. . . It just seems a bit daft to me.
Saltah'na
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Incubation period is within ten days. This is why health officials are enforcing a ten-day quarantine.
It appears the WHO has it all wrong. There has never been an epidemic increase of SARS cases in Toronto. Slowly but surely, due to diligence in our hospitals, the number affected is slowly decreasing.
If anything, any travel advisory should be directed at China. The thing is, China actually COVERED UP the SARS outbreak (revealing only half its cases), whereas we reported it openly.
Total toll right now: 16 dead, 261 affected. In a metropolis of 3.5 million. All 16 dead are linked to the original cluster, and had pre-existing medical conditions.
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Surprisingly, there hasn't been a single case of SARS in SJ yet. I say surprisingly because SJ has a resident population of a few thousand Asian students, a large amount of them from China. They frequently travel to and from China throughout the school year. They've been keeping a close eye on them at the uni, I think.
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