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count-down to SARS

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Toronto, 2003.07.28

Two days to the SARS concert (which the Sun referred to on its front page as SARS-stock). It looks like the weather will be good. Unlike the situation in Shanghai, where Jon is going for a few weeks. On that same day it is supposed to reach the upper 30's with a relative humidity in the 90's. Barf.

rand()m quote

On the endless saga of Rob Ford, mayor of Toronto; "It shouldn't have had to come to this. I'm so tired of getting up every morning and wondering, 'What will it be today?' I'm so tired of giving the benefit of the doubt again and again, only to be let down again and again.... Somewhere a responsible adult has to appear, draw a bright moral line, tell the truth and say unequivocally what won't be tolerated. Somebody has to do the right thing."

—Denzil Minnan-Wong