Just checking in on my fellow simmers in Canada. I hope that you and your families stay safe and away from this nasty virus. I watched on CNN that Toronto had quite a few cases in the city. But I hope and pray that a cure/end of this disease will come. I was talking to my cousin precision, and he said the MTO in Pine Bluff, AR was all in a uproar because we have a daily MTTPB(Manifest Toronto, ON to Pine Bluff, AR) and he thinks that the SARS virus can be spread by this train. Come on now, do you people possibly think there's any truth in this, I dont. But you all are in my prayers and everyone worldwide who has to deal with, or family members are suffering from this virus.
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Well I don't like to sound like the proverbial arse sprouting about inevitable doom.. But if it's in canada, USA is next, unless a cure or something is found..
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I doubt SARS can be spread by a train :P
Its supposidly close contact with a person.
But eighter way thanks for you concern about us canucks.
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Yeah we figured that out, kinda outrageous, but cautious.
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ya, better to be safe then sorry.
I live 21 miles west of Toronto and luckily sars hasn't spread out here. I hope it doesn't... but over 50% of people here work in Toronto so the threat is very real...
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That is not good at all. I wonder how it got to Canada in the first place. I thought it was confined over in Asia. But a woman in Little Rock, AR (not too far from where I live) was going to China to pick up a baby she was going to adopt, and even though people were warned not to travel over there unless necessary, she was going anyways. But she started receiving complaints and threats and she changed her mind. Now I do not condone that, but you have to be careful these days. Hopefully this will end sooner or later.
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I think that someone who visisted Asia brought it over. And at the hospital it was spread and people from the hospital spread it abit as well. So its mostly confined to doctors, nurses anyone who goes to a hospital. But Toronto seems to be the only place in Canada with it. oddly enough.
Good thing she didn't go.. because that may have been how it was spread in Toronto.. with someone visiting Asia and picking it up.
So its more than just her life or health on the line, its the communitys as well.
I also hope the SARS will end soon. Find a cure and abolish it for good.
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It's been in the US for a while,see http://www.cdc.gov/od/oc/media/sars.htm and it'll get a lot worse in most medical opinion before it gets better.
The funny thing is that for once smokers are partially protected,due to viruses being killed by nicotine,and the tobacco smoke molecules,being much larger than the virus,preventing lodgement in the lungs.Not that I'm advocating anybody to start smoking,but the option is there.
Of course in this PC age the "Health Police" would rather try to prevent you dying of a smoking related disease in 30 years time,than help prevent you dying of a virus disease in a few days.
I don't know if you have "smoking" coaches on US trains,but as this disease is estimated,by the WHO,to potentially kill 10% of those whom it infects,I know what coach I'll be sitting in.
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I wonder if the general public knew about that, would the number of smokers rise? And to think something so harmful would kill another harmful thing. I'll say the puffers are better protected than we are. But as long as it comes to an end.
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I'm living in a SARS infected country right now but everyone is proceding with normal life except that we wash our hands with soap more often, avoid crowded places.
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Speaking about that, looks people fear going to Tan Tock Seng Hospital now, even though sufficient precautions have been taken...
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Media is blowing this WAY out of proportion.
With a fatality rate of less than 3% (ordinary pneumonia is higher), this shouldn't even be on the radar. More media fear-mongering.
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RE: OT: SARS In Canada
Larkie
Smoking coaches have been a thing of the past for about 10-15 years here in the states.
The nicotine nazis thought it would be horrible if on a crowded train or if they boarded the smoker by mistake that they'd exposed to killer second hand smoke.
As for our friends to the north, stay safe, but remember this has happened before, those who remember history will remenber the childrens saying from a century ago...
"I had a little bird
it's name is enza.
I opened up the window
and in flew Enza"
The killer flu of a century ago was also going to wipe out mankind and with medical technolgy of the time one could see where they got that idea.
It would be interesting to compare death rates to SARS against other nasty flu bugs and see if to some degree this isn't getting just a bit overblown.
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RE: Media is blowing this WAY out of proportion.
Someone is resposible for the creation of this disease. It seems odd to flare up that fast at the time of war especially. ¿Seem odd to you?
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RE: Media is blowing this WAY out of proportion.
AK
not really, this time it's just coincidental,during the killer flu back in the early 20th century WW I was the reason it traveled, not as a weapon but because of all the men under arms in close proximity and traveling the world over in large amounts.
Now we've got much more rapid transport via civilian means.
But when you look at the fatality rates now I'm begining to think this is more along the shark attack stories that were big news in the states just before 9/11/01 or the local news sweeps stories (ei) "YOUR TOASTER CAN KILL YOU!! FIND OUT TONIGHT AT 10 IF OSAMA BIN LADEN IS HIDING IN THE CRUMB TRAY!!!! type stories
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