SARS In The News

Help! I'm Stuck in Quarantine, and I Can't Get Out!

New York Times by Donald G. McNeil Jr.

As I write this -- it's Sunday, May 25 -- I am in quarantine because of SARS.

I'm at home in Manhattan, it's voluntary, and I'm perfectly healthy. My temperature is 97.2 (low normal for me) while the first symptom of severe acute respiratory syndrome is a rise to 100.4.

I'm doing it only because people are irrationally terrified of the disease, and I don't want my co-workers marching on my cubicle with torches and garlic, or my children's teachers' panicking.

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Posted by Timothy Fredel at June 1, 2003 12:10 AM | TrackBack