Beijing's SARS Attack

Time ^ | Susan Jakes

[Nov3]

12 official cases in Bejing. Yet really 60 at ONE hospital in Bejing not including the transfers! The Chinese are lying through their teeth. I wonder how many cases their really are in China.

I am glad the war is going on. This story would be whipped into a frenzy.

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[Steel Wolf]

It should be whipped into a frenzy. The Chinese are clearly hiding a major health disaster, one that threatens to embarass and discredit them once the truth becomes known. Their feeble health care infrastructure can't possibly be up to the task of dealing with this disease on their own, and thier own pride prohibits them for asking for help. Were it not a threat to their economic stability, they'd likely just let their people die off.

[blam]

New SARS Outbreak Sparks 'Typhoid Mary' Fears

[DoctorMichael]

.........threatens to embarass and discredit them.......

NO! Say it ain't so!

I thought state-run health-systems were supposed to be the most desirable form of healthcare in the world.

Hillary said so!

[Nov3]

It should be whipped into a frenzy.

I don't want to see the economy hurt even further by this. That being said I bet thousands if not 10's of thousands have died in China.

[Steel Wolf]

Our economy could take a little damage off of this. The Chinese could see the bulk of their foriegn investment dry up and vanish, setting their economic development back decades. Not only the disease itself, but the fact that the Chinese leadership would be so ineptly bold as to even try to hide it will scare off investors left and right. They've got no one to blame but themselves on this.

[twigs]

There's a lot. My friend is from Beijing and her parents still live near Beijing University. I was with her last week when she called them to see if they were ok. They told her that four people living near them had come down with it and they had been given preventative medication.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

You nailed it. The true face of Red Chinese Communism is on display for the whole world to see.

[AAABEST]

Ping

[EternalHope]

They told her that four people living near them had come down with it and they had been given preventative medication.

There is no preventative medication. This is simply being done to keep people calm.

[mtbopfuyn]

I'm still wondering if they are hiding something very very bad like they know exactly what it is and how it came to be.

[RightWhale]

Beijing has SARS now? This would be trouble for the high-profile Olympics and a lot of other ordinary things.

[Steel Wolf]

I think it is a lot more likely that this is a case of incompetence and carelessness rather than one of conspiracy.

[Nov3]

This would be trouble for the high-profile Olympics and a lot of other ordinary things.

I forgot about the Olympics.

[twigs]

There is no preventative medication.

That's interesting.

[RightWhale]

Olympics is the major reason Beijing has been wearing the happy face lately. They're putting Taiwan talk and other belligerent talk on the back burner, learning foreign cultures and languages, trying to become relevant in outer space exploration, moderninzing the toilets, all kinds of stuff. Olympics is a big part of the reason.

[aristeides]

This has the potential to be Red China's Chernobyl.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

Maybe you could ask your friend what preventative medicine was given to her parents.

There's plenty about this problem we don't know about yet.

[Sawdring]

On a different note, since I saw you on this thread, I was reading an article in Discover that I thought you would be interested in. You might want to pick up a copy of the May issue and check out:

Ancient America's Culture of War

They only have the first paragraph or two posted but I thought it was a very interesting read.