[Ma Li]

Lest anyone think the new "upfront" attitude in China is true, let me tell you that they are still sticking to their story that there is no SARS in the province where I live.

However, last week, the schools here got detailed papers for each student and teacher about how to wash hands and use soap. It was to protect them "from all kinds of diseases."

Then, today, the police came by the foreigners homes with rags and bottles of disinfectant, and disinfected everything.

And they couln't hide from everything the fact that the train station was closed for two hours. Why? Railway workers are saying a man stepped off a train arriving from Guang Dong province and died on the platform, presumably from SARS. Despite all this, the line remains the same.

Too late? Probably.

[Cronos]

The chicoms are threatening the entire world's safety with their waffling. Unless this entire SARS thing is a chicom biiological weapon that kind of got misplaced and escaped from their labs.

[CathyRyan]

Thank you for your posts! Welcome to Free Republic! Are there any site would would like a link to today?

[aristeides]

SARS victim rode jammed GO Trains: Health officials urge nearby riders to put themselves into quarantine.

[DB]

Scary stuff. Stay safe.

[blam]

Welcome aboard. Thanks for your inputs.

[flamefront]

Thanks for your report. BTW speaking of Chinese sanitary practices, I would be grateful to know how is the 'nightsoil' business doing today in China?

[aristeides]

I was given the name "Ma" in Chinese class too. Ma Duenn Fu. (My real last name is a "Mac" name, and it's as close as they could get to that.) I understand a lot of Moslems in China have "Ma" as their family name. (For Mohammed?)