Kinda reminded me of the Hello Kitty frenzy a few years ago. People saw a queue onto the sky bridge leading into Immigration Centre in Wanchai and people started to join and not realizing that others were just waiting to the their ID card!!
Hong Kong people are gullible and always with the idea in their mind that they are always being left out of something good.
Currently I think the main set of people that needs to change their attitude to the SARS are the foreigners that stopped transiting HK or traveling around Asia. No doubts it will take some time for China to settle down, but that shouldn't stop people from passing through Hong Kong for other places.
It is high time for people to realise that life goes on, we still gotta eat sleep and be merry. Can't stop all that for a flu. Just gotta be cautious and hope for the best.