Ethnic germs
: I was waiting for this. Canada is brewing a controversy over the “racializing” of SARS, with people allegedly shunning Toronto’s Chinatown because the frightening disease comes from China. National Post columnist Christie Blatchford ridicules this (she points out that most of the customers not patronizing Chinatown are Chinese themsleves) and she says that what’s really spreading is an epidemic of neuroses.
: Meanwhile, Bush signed an order allowing forced quarantine of people suspected of having the disease.
