I just wanted to let you know that our own KarlGauss is fighting the good fight against SARS (caring for patients and colleagues who have come down with the disease, not suffering from it himself so far). I expect that’s why his posting frequency has dropped so far.
Any of you arguing about how SARS is not much to worry about should probably be ready to re-think things once KG comes back to educate us fully on the disease. At this point he may indeed be one of the top people in the world in the diagnosis and treatment of SARS patients.
Sending prayers and positive strengthening thoughts to our friend. It is so nice to know that one of our own is risking his own life to help others. As are so many others, in so many other ways.
My grandfather once told me about being in Kansas City in 1918, and seeing troop trains full of soldiers sick with influenza, and about how so many other people were ill with the disease that there wasn’t enough rooms for all of them in hospitals.
It is a sobering reminder that pandemics are not necessarily a thing of the past, when millions died around the world. SARS isn’t there yet, thank God, but such diseases are tricky little devils and it pays to be careful.
I will be very interested in hearing whatever KG can tell us when he returns. God bless him and all others working to contain and understand SARS.
Karl, you have all my best wishes. I have to say that my heart dropped before I got to Quadgop’s parenthetical statement. I hope you’re taking care of yourself as well as your patients.
I don’t know where KG is, but it’s started up again around here. They’ve got cases out at Royal Columbian Hospital and last I heard there’s quite a number of people in quarintine at home too.
Keep your head up and your mask down! Best of luck, God bless for what you’re doing. The 1918 'flu got my great grandfather. He was a Lutheren minister in Montana and it caught up to him while he was out doing visits to the sick. Nasty stuff for sure. I just hope you doctors, along with the nurses and medical tech’s, can get a grip on it before we have a repeat performance.
I keep hearing different opinions on just how virulent this SARS really is. Around here, it’s been kind of downplayed, but now I’m not so sure.
In light of SARS being related to the common cold and having its ease of transmission and tendency to mutate I’m having difficulty seeing how people are saying that SARS is no big deal.
My thanks to KG for being out there. His courage in treating patients who are stricken with the disease is something the whole board should be proud of and grateful for.
Kudos, KarlGauss. Some of us (like, uh, me) go to work, do our jobs, and go home with the world pretty much the same as it was before; thanks for being one who makes a difference.