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SARS!! Very Important to TOTA members!
Before I go further I would like to say that I mean no disrespect or prejudice to Asian people or any one of that origin.
SARS - Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome.
Origin - Chinese mainland.
Hong Kong officials reported that only 5 people died from SARS, a day later they reported 34 people are already dead, and more than 800 are infected in Hong Kong alone. That raises the worldwide death roll to 51 dead and 1,325 infected, Ontario having the most cases outside if Asia. Now many Chinese travel or come in close contact to people, who travel to and from Hong Kong, I know I do, and I�m not even Asian.
Now ask yourself where viva nightclub is, and most of the customers are. Again I�m not trying to say anything negative against the Asians, its just that SARS is spreading very fast, and can be very fatal.
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Hey psst! Over here.
it's only contagious when you come in direct contact with the person's saliva emmissions.
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| Originally posted by The Highroller it's only contagious when you come in direct contact with the person's saliva emmissions. |
im wearing a face mask to viva...of course the inside of the mask will be smothered in VICKS
old skewl styles!!!
You've already died if you worry about dying.
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| Originally posted by psychosomatica You've already died if you worry about dying. |
Wash your hands! (and don't drink someone else's saliva?)
There's a time to be paraniod and then there's common sense and being informed.
While it is good to be informed, let's make informed decisions.
People running around with masks is a little extreme IMHO. 
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| Originally posted by Fir3start3r Wash your hands! (and don't drink someone else's saliva?) |
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| Originally posted by Fir3start3r Wash your hands! (and don't drink someone else's saliva?) There's a time to be paraniod and then there's common sense and being informed. While it is good to be informed, let's make informed decisions. People running around with masks is a little extreme IMHO. |
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| Originally posted by DJ El Kay Dee the first part of that is for Chris and the second is for anyone who plans on kissin....limit urself only to cheek pecking |
comeon guys.... lets have some common sense here now and focus on what matters most: PVD!
next time i see you guys .. get ready to feel the wrath of my Asian spit
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| Originally posted by dEsidEL next time i see you guys .. get ready to feel the wrath of my Asian spit |
you guys think PVD will cancel his toronto show because of this?
Re: SARS!! Very Important to TOTA members!
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| Originally posted by areon Before I go further I would like to say that I mean no disrespect or prejudice to Asian people or any one of that origin. SARS - Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome. Origin - Chinese mainland. Hong Kong officials reported that only 5 people died from SARS, a day later they reported 34 people are already dead, and more than 800 are infected in Hong Kong alone. That raises the worldwide death roll to 51 dead and 1,325 infected, Ontario having the most cases outside if Asia. Now many Chinese travel or come in close contact to people, who travel to and from Hong Kong, I know I do, and I�m not even Asian. Now ask yourself where viva nightclub is, and most of the customers are. Again I�m not trying to say anything negative against the Asians, its just that SARS is spreading very fast, and can be very fatal. |
Let us know what happens......
Re: SARS!! Very Important to TOTA members!
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| Originally posted by areon Before I go further I would like to say that I mean no disrespect or prejudice to Asian people or any one of that origin. SARS - Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome. Origin - Chinese mainland. Hong Kong officials reported that only 5 people died from SARS, a day later they reported 34 people are already dead, and more than 800 are infected in Hong Kong alone. That raises the worldwide death roll to 51 dead and 1,325 infected, Ontario having the most cases outside if Asia. Now many Chinese travel or come in close contact to people, who travel to and from Hong Kong, I know I do, and I�m not even Asian. Now ask yourself where viva nightclub is, and most of the customers are. Again I�m not trying to say anything negative against the Asians, its just that SARS is spreading very fast, and can be very fatal. |
Ah crap. I always run around and lick Asian people!
Hard habbit to break I tell ya!
You know what sucks for me? my work shares an alley with the hospital that's housing the majority of the SARS stuff, and I have to walk through it a million times a day. I feel like I should hold my breath, and run. 
This SARS outbreak shows how volnurable we all are.. It's enough to invent a virus that's very contagious, and people who get sick have a 70-100% chance to die after two weeks of contraction and we'll get the end of the world.
^^
what durafei said reminded me of the book "Rainbow Six" by tom clancy 
and hey, it could happen
I just read the following article in Toronto Star:
Why Toronto was hit so badly??
Now just imagine if the person from HK who was sick, didn't immediately go to the hospital, but instead worked for a day or two at some fast food chain or a restaurant(or in fact any place where one has to deal with customers). If that was the case, we'd be in far deeper shit than we are now. I think this episode will completely change our perspective on our safety. IMHO, Sept 11 is nothing compared to this. Of course there aren't as many deaths yet(and I hope there won't be), but the consequences could be much more devastating.
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| Originally posted by dEsidEL next time i see you guys .. get ready to feel the wrath of my Asian spit |
This is from an article in the paper...
Panic, overkill fuel public fears about disease
KAREN PALMER
PUBLIC HEALTH REPORTER
The headlines are bold and scary: Thousands quarantined. Masks flying off store shelves. Panicked residents flooding a local clinic, fearing they've contracted a mysterious and deadly disease that's circling the globe.
But how truly terrifying is Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome?
"I'd much sooner get SARS than get hit by lightning," said Dr. Lionel Mandel, a pneumonia and infectious disease expert at McMaster University, noting that people are far more likely to survive the mysterious illness than a jolt of atmospheric electricity.
Mandel said he's encouraged by how few deaths the North American arm of the outbreak has seen. There are 66 probable and suspect cases in Toronto, plus 51 suspect cases in the United States. So far, three people have died in Toronto.
"That's about a 5 per cent mortality rate, which is less than the mortality rate we see every week with hospital-acquired pneumonia," he said.
With some pneumonias picked up in long-term care facilities, where residents tend to be frail and elderly and have poor immune systems, more than half of patients can die.
Pneumonia is an inflammation of the lungs, one that causes sufferers to struggle for breath as their lungs are weighed down with fluid. It's usually, but not always, caused by an infection whose root cause might be bacterial, viral, fungal or parasitic.
Symptoms usually include fever, chills, cough, chest pain, and shortness of breath. Vital organs begin shutting down, causing septic shock and a sudden, dangerous rise in blood pressure.
"That doesn't seem to be happening here," Mandel said, noting only 25 per cent of SARS patients actually develop pneumonia. Most patients develop only a fever, muscle aches and respiratory problems, but seem to recover fully.
With SARS, there's a 95 to 98 per cent chance a person will survive the illness.
"There are these steps that make it seem scary," he said, pointing to the quarantine. "You don't do that for a minor thing."
What has prompted the reaction from public health � the severe restrictions on hospital visits, the request for exposed people to stay isolated � stems from the seeming ease with which the disease is passed from one person to another, the fact that doctors don't know where SARS comes from or when it stops being contagious.
"It may seem like overkill, but what they're trying to do is contain the unknown," Mandel said.
"The truth is, the risk is low in social, casual contact," said Dr. Neil Rau, an infectious disease specialist at Credit Valley hospital. However, he said that's no reason to fool around with the disease, throwing his full support behind the quarantine and suggesting public health officials should take even more drastic measures.
"In my career, I've never been as scared as I am of this getting out of control," Rau said.
The scary thing about SARS is that it can kill young, healthy people, such as 44-year-old Chi Kwai Tse who died of SARS at Scarborough Grace hospital on March 14.
"The concern with SARS is that we do not know for sure when people become contagious and we want to take an extra step of precaution for those people who have a visited a place where we know infection has been transmitted, to ensure they have passed through that window of 10 days and are still healthy, before they go out and about in public without restrictions," said Toronto's medical officer of health Dr. Sheela Basrur.
I hope that calms some of you down...!
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