Sure, the Hindustan Times reporter clearly bypassed the CDC PC code words such as "communities" and deciphered them for their readers. I'll concede the CDC did not use that phrase "race-specific" and in fact went out of their way to avoid it when describing risk factors of transmission.

"certain communities" really translates into "Asian inhabited suburbs" of various cities."

Take a long look at this WHO map.

I can't access the classified WHO site and case files to obtain a specific racial breakdown of suspected SARS cases, but I have broken it down to some pretty basic assumptions based on what knowledge I have secured through various sources. It is already overwhelming enough to paint a clear picture of the racial breakdown occurring.

SARS ESTIMATED BREAKDOWN BY RACE

As of April 25, 2003

TOTAL: 4649 cases

Asia:

CHINA: 2601 cases
CH, HONG KONG: 1510 cases
TAIWAN: 41 cases
VIETNAM: 63 cases
MONGOLIA: 3 cases
SINGAPORE: 195 cases
MALAYSIA: 5 cases
JAPAN: 2 cases
THAILAND: 8 cases

TOTAL ASIAN CASES*: 4428
(approximately 95%)

North America:

CANADA: 140 cases
USA: 39 cases

TOTAL NA CASES**: 179
(approximately 3.7%)

South America:

BRAZIL: 2 cases

TOTAL SA CASES: 2
(approximately less than 1/10 of 1%)

Europe:

GERMANY: 7 cases
UK: 6 cases
FRANCE: 5 cases
ITALY: 4 cases
SWEDEN: 3 cases
SWITZERLAND:
ROMANIA: 1 case
BULGARIA: 1 case
IRELAND: 1 case

TOTAL EUROPEAN CASES: 28
(approximately 6/10 of 1%)

Elsewhere:

AUSTRALIA: 4 cases
KUWAIT: 1 case
SOUTH AFRICA: 1 case
INDIA: 1 case

TOTAL ELSEWHERE CASES: 7
(approximately 2/10 of 1%)

Does this paint a picture yet for your logical mind Davin?

A common sense estimate would say that it is very likely 99% of the victims are of Asian ancestry.

How many epidemics can be let loose for SIX MONTHS, reach every continent of the globe and still manage to infect only around 1% of non-asian ancestry individuals?

That's a miracle! Hallelujah! Give praise! It must be "God's caucasion shielding" in place.

Pretty absurd, you're right.

The reality points to a specific virus targeting nuances or exploiting weaknesses in certain human cells.

Political correctness demands we ignore all races differences - and yet here is a case where to do so will be to condemn many of them to certain death.

I am just pointing out what should be patently obvious to anyone who bothers to gather some facts and fire a few signals through the synaptic centers.

No need to blow your circuit board,

;-)

SDAI-Tech1

*Unable to confirm actual race breakdown due to confidentiality of records.

**Almost all of Canada's cases derive from a oriental visitor to Asia who participated in an religious ceremony in Toronto upon returning where many other folks of asian ancestry present became infected, sparking Easter celebrations in Catholic churches here to refrain from celebrating any symbolic gestures which involve human fluids, or even celebrating at all. It is safe to assume that over 90% of Canada's cases are individuals of Asian ancestry.
The CDC doesn't consider Toronto risky to travel to. (unless you are of asian ancestry and may be a member of a undefined community.)