To: Enemy Of The State
According to friends living in Beijing, it's still much worse than they're reporting. I've been told a several dead that these people knew personally, and rumors of over 400 dead in the city. Not only that, people visiting the city are stopped at checkpoints and screened for symptoms that might be SARS---and if so, are 'quarantined'...another co-worker keeps getting calls from his friends in the city NOT to come to Beijing right now. Given the choice to believe what may be rumors from people in the city, or government reports from Beijing Bob--no question whose opinion I tend to believe.
2 posted on
04/20/2003 9:43:26 AM PDT by
HassanBenSobar
(I now inform you that you are too far from reality!)
To: HassanBenSobar
According to friends living in Beijing, it's still much worse than they're reporting. I'd believe it's a lot worse. The "deaths/recovery" ratio in mainland (non-Hong Kong) China is completely out of whack relative to the rest of the world.
15 posted on
04/20/2003 11:07:12 AM PDT by
SauronOfMordor
(Heavily armed, easily bored, and off my medication)
To: HassanBenSobar
Interesting. Can you keep us updated on what your friends are saying?
19 posted on
04/20/2003 11:55:56 AM PDT by
riri
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