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You might have been distracted for a moment with recent battles near and far off, but there's a new deadly virus loose in the world.
Severe Acute Respiritory Syndrome (SARS) seems to have just come out of southern China and stopped off here in Hong Kong, and now is spreading to other places in the world. Almost 2,000 cases and 70-something dead world-wide. Here in Hong Kong, 16 dead and 700 infections, people being quaranteened in camps. 1 million school children not in school, hundreds of families fleeing by air. Many people are wearing surgical masks while out of their homes. Buses are empty, it's hard to find a cab.
Actually, this probably isn't biological warfare or terrorism. Viruses mutate all the time, and there is no cure for any virus, I am told. Not even for the "rhino-virus" that causes the common cold.
In this situation, would YOU want to wear an uncomfortably hot and cumbersome surgical mask? It's mostly so YOUR droplets don't infect others, remember, and doesn't necessarily help you avoid infection. And, IF you find one for sale, which is very rare now, it will cost you 10-15 times the regular cost at other times.
It feels pretty medieval around here...very strange. You can't see people's facial expressions, whether they are smiling or not. Young children are startling more easily, and crying in fear when surrounded by these weird white blank faces...
And of course, entrepeneurs are already selling designer masks...sequins...Hello Kitty and Levis logos...bizarre!
To wear one or not?
"Always forgive your enemies...nothing annoys them quite so much." Oscar Wilde
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