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...fear of the disease has already outpaced officials' warnings. Tens of thousands of Hong Kong residents venture outdoors only with their faces covered with surgical masks. Airlines have canceled flights in and out of China and Southeast Asia, and financial losses from reductions in tourism, retail spending and other business activity could reach billions of dollars. Schools were closed across affected regions, and last week authorities in Hong Kong forced 240 people from the hard-hit Amoy Gardens apartment complex into quarantine camps outside the city. In Canada, hospitals have closed to control the disease's spread, and health officials...
Hong Kong officials apparently felt they could not afford to cancel a popular event that would boost a tourism industry in free fall: bookings for the Easter holidays are down 30%. The rugby games helped those numbers, at least for a weekend. It will take a week--the SARS incubation period--before doctors will know whether there's a price to pay for it. --By Jeffrey Kluger. Reported by Ilya Garger/Hong Kong
...around their mouths. "When you wear them all day, the [bandannas] get all wet with saliva and sweat, becoming useless," said Lo Wing-lok, president of the Hong Kong Medical Association. Hong Kong officials apparently felt they could not afford to cancel a popular event that would boost a tourism industry in free fall: since the disease hit, city restaurants have seen a 15% drop in dinner business, and travel bookings for Easter are down 30%. Rugby boosted the numbers, at least for a weekend. It will take up to a week - the SARS incubation period - before scientists will know...
...Vietnam's tourism board is hoping Phan Thiet, promoted as the country's Hawaii, will likewise catch on. At the moment, fishing remains the main source of income for locals, who live along prime beachfront real estate and spend their days plying the waters of the South China Sea. Instead of hawking trinkets on the beach, the town's children are commercial fishermen, too, venturing out to sea in thung chai, two-meter-wide circular baskets made of bamboo and pitch that can only be paddled standing up. Old superstitions linger: before a new boat makes its maiden voyage, families...
Making threats—tourism boycotts, congressional admonitions, reduced imports—would only serve to further isolate the French government and antagonize its public. America and its world allies should continue to use diplomatic channels to bring France around, though they should not be afraid to act on their own if need be. Just the same, if France continues its unwillingness to put pressure on Iraq, a review of our snack food nomenclature may be in order. After all, France admits it: French fries are from Belgium...