Papercut Fun wrote:
"I'm not even sure what the Teabag topics are these days, but I wanted to ask this on our rambling thread:
Is anyone else out there living in a place where SARS is an issue? Have you heard of this thing: Severe Accute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). Started in China and now has my hometown Toronto, Canada in the grips of fear. News stories make it look like we all walk around wearing masks which is quite a stretch. But it's crushing tourism here. The play I do every night ""The Mousetrap"" is hurting as American bustours are cancelling by the...uh...busload. A full house is about 150 people and we had maybe 20 at each show on Saturday night when we usually pack the place.
SARS stinks. It's the only disease I've heard of where 200 deaths worldwide can be considered an ""epidemic"". I mean, how many people do we lose in a good year from the flu or pnemonia? 1,000? 1,500?
And now we're battoning down the hatches for another round of the mosquito carrying West Nile virus. Saddam doesn't need biological weapons, Mother Nature seems to be doing a pretty good job on her own.
Well I'll just read Lucifer. It'll make me happy."
