Well, maybe the question to both you and Dr. Maxted of the College of Family Physicians is whether the mushroom syndrome is still at work. That was the report coming out of SARS, based on the lack of consideration to some of the obvious recommendations. That's a rhetorical question, but if you want to answer it, let me just finish. My time is probably coming to an end.
When I raised this concern about respirators with Dr. Butler-Jones, he basically suggested that I didn't know what I was talking about and, by implication, that you didn't know what you were talking about. He said we're not talking about tuberculosis or smallpox, and if we were, then we'd talk about N95s. He said we're talking about a virus that is transferred when we cough. We handle it. We rub our noses and our eyes, hands in our mouth. He says that's the problem and that N95 respirators won't help at all.
What do you say to that? How do we get a better national standard to protect nurses on the front line?