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As that the SARS crisis is officially over (at Giovanni Gentile said, 'the state becomes least for this year), we can look at develop­ a reality only in the consciousness of letters ing a more responsible international health individuals.' program, a program driven by the desire to Odd, is it not, that Western liberalism save lives, rather than fear. should lead in a direction that it theoreti­ Matthew Klugman cally abhors-one espoused by fascism and Hysterical flu Moonee Ponds, Vic communism? As Hilaire Belloc foresaw, we have become a mass of contented slaves The June Eureka Street drew attention controlled by a few billionaires and their to a number of the social, economic and Little credit political servants. public health issues associated with the Fr John Hill recent outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory I wish to provide a disappointing update to StJohn the Baptist Syndrome, or SARS. What it did not give, your readers regarding information in my Woywoy, NSW however, was a critique of the hysteria recent article 'Capital investment' (Eurel<a surrounding this outbreak. Indeed, the Street, June 2003). hype around SARS overwhelmed all our I have recently been informed by Mind matters media outlets; the only critical comment AusAID that government aid funding for I've seen has been an email drawing atten­ microcredit, whilst increasing steadily over Tim Thwaites' article ('Mind and Matter', tion to the counter-epidemic of Severe Loss the last few years, fell from $13 million Eureka Street, July-August 2003) was a of Perspective Syndrome or SLOPS. in 2001-02 to around $8.5 million in timely reflection on the power of the mind In what is increasingly becoming the 2002-03. This represents a 35 per cent cut to cure. Whether or not psychology can help decade of fear, SARS can now be added in funding.