So, how about that SARS?

The WHO thinks Toronto is a Hot Zone, which sort of woke us up a bit... Until then, only the hospital workers (and I suppose their patients) had really noticed any change in the city. Now it's on everyone's lips, and the topic in all the elevators. But really, there's very little sense of disturbance. Some companies downtown are taking limited measures to separate key staff (to avoid the risk of their entire businesses getting quaranteened) but there doesn't seem to have been an outbreak so far, and since the total number of cases -- 257 at last count, I think -- is so small, nobody I know even knows anybody who knows one of the victims... at least, so far as I know.

It's a bit weird. I suppose in a few months we'll look back on this time as either being a completely unnecessary panic scare, or the start of something much bigger. Is SARS going to be the first of the super bugs they've been predicting for the last few years? Or should everybody just stop worrying and take their Vitamin C?
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