Mr. Speaker, I know that as an authority in his own right in laboratory medicine and procedures, his question is a genuine one. I am sure for people who were involved in that arena during that period, as he was, it was a life changing experience and one that nobody will likely to forget in a hurry, and probably not too keen to repeat.
My problem with the bill is not that we do not need to take measures. It is that we ensure that the interventions we take are the most appropriate ones. I am concerned that there are possibilities of mitigating the risks that are even under utilized and under investigated.
Some of the possibilities which I just raised such as oxygen, et cetera , with pathogens being more active in anaerobic environments, I raised with Dr. Low, a very well respected microbiologist. Frankly, it went right past him. He did not engage seriously with that. I think it is because all his research is at ground level, one atmosphere. When people work in one arena, they sometimes do not think about other possibilities.
In the oxygen area, I think we might have some great advances to reduce the morbidity of disease. Rather than going to draconian measures to restrict everybody, if we caught those people with low cost intervention, that might prove to be more effective, and we might obviate the need for some of the more serious interventions advocated by the bill.