Everybody bitches about the hype over flu epidemics, until one day there IS a pandemic, then it's "why oh why didn't we act sooner?" (Anyone remember AIDS? That might have been eradicated if we hadn't been pretending it was God's wrath on gays. Now we have 33 million living with AIDS and 2 million deaths a year)

I'm sorry, but with a world population so interconnected, mobile and transient, greater vigilance is needed. If you think the inconvenience of the caution just shown is too much, wait and see what tens (possibly hundreds ) of millions of people dying around the world does to your business. More people died of the 'flu in 1918 than were killed by the Great War.

There, but for the grace of God and some understandable caution by the WHO go us all, now.

But all that aside, I am glad you are back with us, Tony. Stay healthy...

[This message has been edited by Diki (edited 05-04-2009).]