Jordon Cooper wades through email with the realization that people that attempt to label him and criticize him don’t have a blog. Love this…

It makes sense, if you have your own outlet for personal opinion, you don’t have to attack someone elses. A small suggestion for those hoping for a regime change at this blog. Head over to Blogspot.com and get your own.

In a shameless bid to get more Google search engine hits, Martin Roth looks at the top 6 war blogs from the US.

Bloggedy blog needed to lighten things up for the first of April.

Boy, did Dash House ever have the church service no minister wants this past week.
Real Live Preacher started his Sunday off a bit spooked.

Fragments from Floyd is off on a canoe trip. Hard to imagine, it’s snowing here.
Fred has a ‘place’ blog, a rare and tranquil thing. Smooth paddling buddy.

Midwest Conservative Journal looks at Alberta separatism, while Daimnation has some fun with Quebec separatism.

Josh Claybourn has posted the 100 Top April Fool’s Day Hoaxes of all time.

Quantum Tea treats us to the Feline Alarm Unit. ar arr arrr.

Contents: One (1) Feline alarm clock
Model: Male, orange fur, with claws.
Serial number: Tangle
Alarm type: Chirp and purr. Alarm may resort to other methods if ignored, including, but not limited to, patting your nose, licking your hair, and standing on your throat.
Warning: contents may shift in transit.

Whether you agree or disagree with Ibidem’s take on Fox News commercialization of war, this is a good read.

Alas, The Blue Coyote Lounge blog is no more. Hey, The Gospel According to Mark will be back to it’s wonderfully quirky, eclectic and diverse posts. (how’s that for hyperbole?)

SARS- Australia

“The man had travelled back to Australia on 12 February after spending two days in Singapore and presented to a hospital in Sydney on 23 February with fever, cough, shortness of breath and difficulty breathing,” Prof Smallwood said in a statement.

“The person recovered after two weeks and was well when released from hospital.

“There was no spread of SARS from this patient to his contacts.

“The classification of SARS was made retrospectively as the man had recovered before the health alert was released by the WHO on 14 March, 2003.”

Prof Smallwood said Australian health authorities had investigated more than 30 suspected cases of SARS in the past three weeks.

None of the suspected cases were found to fit the WHO criteria for SARS, except the NSW man, he said.

Diagnosis is exclusionary, reporting will be slow.

SARS- Hong Kong
Four quarantine camps have been set up in rural Hong Kong to accommodate up to 1000 cases of SARS. Hong Kong has reported 75 new cases today, with 52 of those from the quarantined apartment complex. 250 residents are being moved to the quarantine camps.
Hong Kong also reported it’s 16th death.
Thailand has now given it’s health officials authority to quarantine.
What is it like to be a parent, and use parental wisdom to get government to pay attention and close schools in Singapore?

Hoax
A 14 year old in Hong Kong wil be learning some hard lessons after being arrested for putting up a hoax website about SARS. What he thought was clever caused wide spread panic, and caused the Hong Kong stock market to dip, and a run on grocery stores.

The hoaxer had copied the format of the public Internet portal of the Mingpao, one of Hong Kong’s leading newspapers, and posted a message saying that the government would declare the city of seven million “an infected place.”

Duck. Rant below.
I have no intentions of Bene Diction Blogs On being blog-central for SARS, I’m not a doctor and I don’t play one on TV.
Got an e-mail this afternoon from a reporter at the NY Times asking about people’s reactions.
Haven’t answered yet, need to get this out of my system first.
SARS posts just happened to get noticed for reasons I can’t fathom, so for now I’ll fufil the role of SARS Czar, with the hope someone else will take over shortly. LoL (good one Dr. Byron)
Panic is stupid. Hoaxes are very stupid with so many unknowns and so much to deal with in the every day, and there will always be adolescents and people that don’t know or don’t give a damn.
Panic is minimized when people get educated.
Panic is minimized when you say to someone, “I don’t know, let’s find out together ok?”
Ignorance can be more of a killer or inconvenience than this bug.
Go on. Go over to that extreme tracker on the side bar. Hit referrer one and look at the searches.
That tells me that Canadians in and out of the hot zone have a great deal of common sense and want to learn how to manage their lives in tough circumstances.
Newspapers, magazines, radio (no not talk radio!) TV, the web, and hotlines give known facts, coping skills, and put a human face on a microscopic thingy.
We have a whole generation that don’t know the basics about spread and hygiene with something this virulent.
I care that people are sick and afraid and unaware they are in harms way.
Vancouver has to open a SARS clinic because panicky people are flooding hospital emergency rooms. Ontario has SARS clinics in the GTA.
Pardon my english. What the hell good is panic going to do to stop a virus?
And what really ticks me off is enough information is available for people to make reasoned choices.
I saw a post the other day on a blog that was ill-informed. That is sad.

Right now my major search is Canadians looking for information on SARS.
They aren’t going to be dismissed here, nor will they find just opinion.
The facts as known are available, the unknowns are acknowledged.
I have family and friends in the middle of this outbreak who are pragmatic and making decisions as events unfold and information become available. They know panic isn’t going to keep them healthy, stress just lowers immunity.
At the same time, scorn and dismissal is stupid too.
The best I can give here in is my time and attention to others as they bring themselves up to speed, and hopefully this blog will help them do that. There will be other ways I’ll be helping if this spreads into my community.
grrrr.
Ok. I’m done.

Vital Signs blogs from the front lines as a paramedic.

Is anyone else blogging about this?