Manhunt for Beijing taxi drivers with SARS-infected passenger

Jerusalem Post ^ | Apr. 22, 2003 | ASSOCIATED PRESS

[Semper911]

Thanks very much for pinging me to your update about the situation in rural China. Please keep me on your ping list, and don't let me miss anything.

We are witnessing the beginning of something very significant. Your perspective and reports are very valuable to us. I bet our CDC doesn't even have as much information as you have. You might even consider emailing them with your updates. Here is a link to their online contact form:

http://www.cdc.gov/netinfo.htm

I don't know what good it would do, but they might appreciate your information. I know I do.

[blam]

Thanks for the updates.

[Fitzcarraldo]

Thanks for the update.

[the rifleman]

Thanks for the update. Be careful what you say, if the Chinese government doesn't feel the need to release this info, they will not appreciate your help.

[Ma Li]

I've been sending things to the CDC and WHO. Two months ago, I tried sending both those groups a warning. When the first news of SARS came here, people all over started buying up all the antibiotics they could (you can get lots of them over the counter here, and the others you can steal from the hospital if you have a friend who works there). They were taking them to prevent SARS, but most people here haven't the foggiest idea how those work, or what their purpose is. If they get sniffles, they take them till the sniffles go away--if that is 2, 3, 5 or 10 days. Then they stop. Building up their antibiotic resistence!

[Ma Li]

Thanks for the warning. I know it is a bit risky, though I'm trying to be careful. But, I also feel very strongly that international pressure must be brought to bear, or this country will not take the measures necessary to stop this. If they don't, and it reaches the AIDS, hepatits and tuburculousis ravaged countryside, a lot of people are going to die. I am concerned with the debated questions about whether this will bring down the government, or whether it will destroy their manufacturing capability and all those things. But, those become academic when compared with the the life of the little old lady down the street who walks 4 hours every day to come into town and sell her vegetable, hoping to make a few RMB and get along in life.

[Semper911]

I've been sending things to the CDC and WHO. Two months ago, I tried sending both those groups a warning.

Good work. Keep sending them your information. I am sure they are interested, even if they don't respond.

When the first news of SARS came here, people all over started buying up all the antibiotics they could ... They were taking them to prevent SARS, but most people here haven't the foggiest idea how those work, or what their purpose is. If they get sniffles, they take them till the sniffles go away--if that is 2, 3, 5 or 10 days. Then they stop. Building up their antibiotic resistence!

Oh my, what a disaster waiting to happen. This information is simply unavailable anywhere else. Keep posting, maybe a thread from time to time with your updates. Information like this shouldn't be buried in other SARS threads. It deserves its own thread.

Thanks for posting.

[Ma Li]

I'm sorry, I'm a bit new to this---how would I start a thread on it? Post it in News/Activism? I wasn't sure if that was only for news articles or not. Could also post pictures if knew what to do for that on this sight. I'm pretty computer literate, but I'm not sure of that procedure here.

[Semper911]

May I introduce you to Ma Li, a new FReeper posting from China on the SARS situation.

Read post #5, and subsequent posts. Then you might want to use your ping list on this. Valuable stuff.

[abner]

Yes please...

[Semper911]

I'm sorry, I'm a bit new to this---how would I start a thread on it? Post it in News/Activism? I wasn't sure if that was only for news articles or not.

Yeah, it is for news articles, but you can post things like personal reports too. It's called a vanity. If you are on the news/activism main page, up in the right hand corner near your name and your mail, there is a link that says "post". Just click that and a posting page will appear. There is a place for the url and all that, but you can leave most of that stuff blank if you are just posting your own report.

The only thing you have to put in is a title and a topic, like news, or politics, or whatever. Click the Choose button by the topics field and check one of the topics. (If it is something earthshattering, click Breaking News.) Then scroll to the end and click Okay, and it will take you back to the posting page. There is a place for the "article" and also another field for your comments, but you can leave the comments field empty.

Could also post pictures if knew what to do for that on this sight. I'm pretty computer literate, but I'm not sure of that procedure here.

An image has to live on the Internet already before you can post it here. Then you just link to the image address in the posting field, and your pic will appear.

If you have the address of a pic, use this html tag:

< img src="http://www.freerepublic.com/images/frlogo.gif" >

But take away the spaces by the < and >. The only space should be between the img and the src, and the address is in quotation marks.

Posting the above html tag will look like this when we see it:

You can get the address of a pic on the web by right clicking it and selecting Copy Link Location (I use netscape, but Internet Explorer might say something else if you use that.) Right click on the the FR pic then paste the address you get to see what I mean.

Oh, and also, if you want to have a paragraph break in some text, just type < p >, without the spaces.

Looking forward to your posts, and be sure to ping me!

[Semper911]

Read post #5, and subsequent posts.

Dang, howlin, I meant Read Post #18.

And be on the lookout for Ma Li's other posts on the SARS threads.