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Toronto quarantined by Ukraine

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Toronto, 2003.06.11

My colleague Yuri from the office - who has been making regular appearances in this journal, recently - discovered today that Ukraine has imposed a quarantine on all people arriving from SARS-afflicted regions. He was planning a trip to last four weeks, but now he'd have to spend 10 days of that time in quarantine, so he's rethinking it.

In related news, my mother - who works at Toronto's Mt. Sinai hospital - is back in gloves, gown, mask and goggles to prevent the spread of the disease in the hospital. What a nightmare to have to work under those conditions for the whole day. Lousy disease!

rand()m quote

The human capacity to ignore inconvenient facts and avoid unpleasantness is immense

—John Walker, from the Hacker's Diet