Space Vampire, if you were to read the whole thread, you’d see that the person you quoted (me) later admitted to having some false reasoning.
Bite me you slack jawed prick.
Why? A mess of diseases are virulent and airborne, yet a majority of the world’s populatino do not eventuall get it. Hell, every year we have an influenza bug out there, virulent and airborne, but the majority of people don’t catch that.
Sua
I was building off the, what appeared to be, ease of transmission reported. The stories out of China aren’t real reliable, but if true, they are a cause for concern. In one apartment building some people did no more than live above or below an infected person. Try that with the flu.
I guess I should have added the addendum “as virulant and airborne as reported”
The more I read, the less it looks like it’s airborne, but that, as they say, is still up in the air.
If you are a nurse, how about cooling down the hyperbole a little bit.
Let me just point out that the fatality rate in the US from SARS is 0.00%. Big difference between 3rd world health care and the US. Also mortality rate in Asia is almost exclusively over 40 years old, and generally elderly people with other health complications.
I just returned from a week in the US to Shanghai. I’ve got to get caught up at work and then I’ll try to add some meat and ancedotal information about what’s going on here.
Y’all might want to check out www.cdc.gov for some facts instead of reading sensationalist accounts in the newspapers
apologies NurseCarmen, I didn’t read the whole thread this morning.
As for the Amoy Gardens, anyone who has lived in Hong Kong housing (like I did for 6 years) can attest to shoddy construction, exposed pipes, routine dripping of fluids between floors, leaky pipes. They have 100% identified the vector of infection, but it will happen and it will turn out to be something physical like a leaky pipe between the floors.
As for a government conspiracy cover up - I find it really hard to believe. Certainly, there may be cases of individual doctors or even hospitals trying to cover up, but I just don’t see a country wide conspiracy. First, 50 people dying in China isn’t even a rounding error. Life is cheap here and such a low number is insignificant. Second, Madame Wu Yi is in charge, and she does not suffer fools. She has a great track record. Third, China didn’t really have an epidemic policy in place before this occured. Fourth, the economic reprecussions took the Chinese government by surprise, and you can believe that they will do everything they can moving forward to avoid such a fall out.
My daughter came down with a fever, cough and other flu like symptoms last Friday. I was in the US, but my wife took her to our normal Children’s hospital (in china, you go to a hospital for a doctors visit and private clinics generally do not exist). They had recently built a new wing for those that pay double rates for the best doctors/facilities compared with the regular hospital. however, this time around, that new wing was reserved for SARS patients/quarantine. There were no suspected cases in quarantine.
China Wife reported that anyone coming in with symptoms remotely related to SARS were immediately taken in for an examination. They checked out my daughter and concluded that it was not SARS. I wasn’t there so not sure what the check entailed. There are hotlines that my wife has called in subsequent days and this morning my daughter had no fever although from her behavior and cough, she isn’t yet 100%.