Good gracious! Where's Garford! SARS may be the next infringement on freedom (personally, I think you all should stay home and clean your rooms =8^P ).

[G-man Joe]

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '><b>Link:</b> <a href="http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/ ... .html">Bad news, as usual.</a>

Copied and pasted in case the connection is too long :

<b>First created :
10 April 2003 2251 hrs (SST) 1451 hrs (GMT)
Last modified :
11 April 2003 1357 hrs (SST) 0557 hrs (GMT)

MOH hires CISCO to enforce SARS home quarantine

By Bridgette See

The Health Ministry has hired security firm CISCO to serve home quarantine orders and ensure people comply with the orders, put in place to control the spread of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS).

CISCO officers will place electronic cameras at the homes of those under quarantine.




These people will then be called at random intervals and asked to stand in front of the camera to show they are home.

Anyone found breaking quarantine will be served a warning letter and given an electronic wrist tag.

This tag is linked to a dedicated phone line and will alert CISCO if the person leaves the house or tries to break the tag.

The Health Ministry is resorting to this after a few incidents in which people under home quarantine flouted the order.


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[ManaMan]

<div style='font: 12pt Arial; text-align: left; '>Gee, nice to know Cisco is helping a brotha out.... big brother that is.</div>

[Tessian]

<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>we're possibly talking about the survival of the human race if this is allowed to get out of hand. I don't care if they have to shoot infected people and burn their bodies-- if it gets into the mainstream we're all fucked</div>

[Garford]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Considering the highly infectious nature of SARS, that schools was closed down for 2 weeks to contain SARS and a bunch of goons still disobey the order quarantine and run around putting others at risk, what our government is doing is not that bad.</div>

[Garford]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Around 15 new cases of suspected SARS cases pop up everyday with a lot of comfirmed cases being hospital workers, with the nature of the disease still being unknown, this kind of drastic step is needed......</div>

[Eric]

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>Hello Black Plauge 2000.....</div>

[Judgment 1999]

<div style='font: 14pt ; text-align: left; '>I hope you'll be able to avoid catching this thing.</div>

[ManaMan]

<div style='font: 12pt Arial; text-align: left; '>It's just the cameras in the rooms thing... I wonder if they're going to be taken out after the virus is contained? Hmm..</div>

[Garford]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>It's only on when CISCO calls to check if the person being quarantine is around. It's off after the image is gathered by CISCO.</div>

[G-man Joe]

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>What if they're too sick to get up?</div>