Originally posted by Graham:
People are worried.
It appears that you can get SARS from immediate contact with an infected person. I don't know the specifics of how "intimate" the contact has to be, and I doubt the mechanics know, either. But it is an airborne condition, yes?
I'd probably be as wary as them. Would I ask you to leave? Who knows.
It's a new disease, and the media has pumped the scare factor up huge.
Paramedics didn't face this same kind of fear during the opening years of the AIDS scare, back in the 80s?
From what I saw on the news yesterday, it is only contagious from those who are outwardly showing symptoms. I heard this from a story done about that High School in Ohio that closed because parents were afraid of the kids that came back from Toronto . They were there for a band competition. All were certified healthy, but the histeria won out and the school was closed.
Jinx, I feel bad that you had to go through that. You should never be embarrased you are a paramedic, you are a hero.
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