[goldstategop]

SARS could end up crippling the Communist system. This is just the tip of the iceberg. We know little about what goes on inside the corridors of power in China where the real day to day decisions about the country's future are made.

[LiberationIT]

QUICK!!! Someone send Jocelyn Elders over there!!

[evad]

China's got thir own sniper syndrome.

I remember how the sniper episode crippled the Washington metro area. SARS seems to be affecting the Chinese the same way....don't go out unless you have to, stay away from certain areas, everyone wary of what's "out there"...it ain't fun.

[Centurion2000]

Interesting ... I wonder how it affects Chinese assembly plants ... and will the virus cling and survive on the surface of manufactured goods.

Wal Mart may become a vector for this disease.

[aristeides]

I wonder if Peking has the same kind of plumbing as Hong Kong.

[11B3]

"private economists said China's economic growth rate this year would be at least 1 percentage point lower than previously estimated"

No - how about if this continues and the US has no other choice but to refuse ALL shipments from China, your economy will perform at 1% of what it used to, not 1% lower.

Shouldn't be playing with bioweapons, China. "The best laid plans of mice and men...."

[Merdoug]

I wonder if SARS will actually hit a more technlogically advanced culture harder than some place like China. I mean, they don't have as far to fall as we do. Their economy may be able to handle it better than ours.
Something else that bugs me is Canada's higher death rate. They are almost 20%! Why? I wonder if Canada is the only place giving out "true" numbers of those who have had SARS?

[mabelkitty]

I'm not buying any Chinese products - at all.

I have no idea how long this thing lasts on the surface.

(That, and I'm floating a boycott of Chinese goods because American companies are screwing us).

[cynicom]

Maybe we could loan them a few billions. If they cannot afford, maybe we can make a gift.

[green team 1999]

it`s SARS the one that will wipe out 80% of the world population as predicted (remote viewing) by major Ed Dames on art bell??