Re: IBF over reacted
Originally posted by colin
The IBF's decision to postpone the WC is another example of over-reaction to SARS. Provided they screen the players in their home countries beforehand there shouldn't be any risk.
I would have thought that super fit athletes like the world class players who have been training intensively for the WC are not likely to have SARS anyway.....
Hmmm... I'm not worrying so much about the players themselves (though as
so one once put it, their chances are also non-zeros). Rather, it's the spectators
that I'm concerned about; they're the one elbowing each other, shouting, chanting,
coughing.... And don't forget that this disease is highly contagious - the virus
apparent can survive outside of human bodies (surfaces that the carriers/patients
touch) for up to a day. And consider the number of medical care personnels who
contracted the diseases themselves (they must have been in the "best" protective
gears current state-of-the-art can offer them, don't you think).
Here's another story I heard from a recent news (or is that from Yahoo?): apparently
someone contracted with SARS (or suspected of contracted) knowingly attended
a funeral, putting hundreds of people at risk. Consider the response from this
forum, it won't surprise me that fanatics like this would show up in WC as
spectators (besides, don't forget there's a incubation period of approx. 10 days,
so the victims might not even know they already have it).
If we in the world communities at large are still being complacent, this could prove
to be dangerous. New cases of confirmed contraction and new deaths are reported
from China/H.K. and a few other places on a daily basis. This thing is far from over.
And Kwun, I can certainly empathize with those who suffer some financial losses.
I suppose they can still go there, except without the WC.