Dan said: "Yet another example of a government too busy to take care of its own."

How right you are, Dan. Here's the counter-example of a government that does take care of its own (from the same article you linked to):

In a regular update on the spread of the disease, the WHO said it had taken Canada off its list of areas where SARS was spreading.



Canada, with 24 SARS deaths, is the only country outside Asia where people have died of SARS, all of them in the area around the financial capital Toronto.



[Now why do I have this perverse temptation to bait Tom B. on the absolute evil of "collectivism" in all forms...?]