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04/24/2003 Archived Entry: "Speaking of SARS"

SPEAKING OF SARS...: Alright, everyone here in Toronto is a huffin' and a puffin' about the fact the World Health Organization, in all its transnational wisdom and glory, decided to put Toronto on its list of no-go SARS hotzones, ranking us with such sanitary wastelands as Beijing and Hong Kong. The travel warning came down yesterday. Today, I just heard that our fair city's Chief Medical Officer has declared the SARS outbreak "contained," which is not something you could say about Beijing and Hong Kong. The Canadian media has been none too subtle in its disgust at the WHO's slur against the place from where most of them are based. But then again, we should not be very surprised at this, given that the world media seems intent on portraying Toronto as "Plaguesville." The local news did a round-up of reaction on American news networks to the WHO's travel warning. May I please ask what idiot writer on Fox News International decided it was appropriate to describe Toronto as a "virtual ghost town?" Who am I going to believe: them or my lying eyes?