Really, I’d rather they worried about terrorism, and finding terrorists (and this says really bad things about mission creep).
So, let’s recap the symptoms of SARS from the CDC:
Clinical Criteria
Asymptomatic or mild respiratory illness
Moderate respiratory illness
Temperature of >100.4? F (>38? C), and
One or more clinical findings of respiratory illness (e.g., cough, shortness of breath, difficulty breathing, or hypoxia).
(snip)
Epidemiologic Criteria
Travel (including transit in an airport) within 10 days of onset of symptoms to an area with current or recently documented or suspected community transmission of SARS?, or
Close contacts within 10 days of onset of symptoms with a person known or suspected to have SARS infection.
So, if you have a cold, be prepared to be stopped and held, involuntarily, until a Public Health officer interviews you. It doesn’t say in the article if you could just elect not to travel and leave, and thereby avoid the public health evaluation certain to follow.
Another reason to drive, not fly.
