The chance of any individual contracting SARS is tiny. But that doesn't stop people worrying. Talk to young people about the scare words the media use: new, invisible, killer, mutating. Do these increase fears?
Talk about the changes some individuals have considered making to their daily lives. How bad would an outbreak have to be to cause someone to change their plans? Some UK public schools have quarantined students returning from parts of Asia. Is this a sensible precaution or a pointless over-reaction?
Television news shows people in Hong Kong and China wearing masks in public. The masks may not help much and the risk is anyway very small.
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