Personal Dork Assistant

Diseased Humor

Yeah, this is a great way to draw in customers

—Courtesty of Penny Arcade

Taiwan media blow everything out of proportion (that's what happens when you have 189310 different news outlets covering a small island), so I tended to ignore their SARS coverage. On the other hand, when the New York Times (terrible scandal aside) start covering the outbreak, one starts to think that maybe there's something to it, especially with the alarming rate of 25 deaths and 250 probable cases. You know it's serious when people are scared away from Sogo, which happens to be down the street from the grandparents' apartment. It's nothing that three solid days of disinfection and a 50%-off sale couldn't fix, though. Heck, I'm surprised that mom didn't rush back for the occasion.