China will pay dearly for the SARS debacle

International Herald Tribunal ^ | April 22, 2003 | Bates Gill

[Illbay]

I think the concern with SARS isn't where it is now, but where epidemiological science tells us it's headed.

[Illbay]

I thought the next Olympics was in Athens.

[FreepForever]

Typp: prove = prone

[FreepForever]

2004 in Athens. 2008 in Beijing.

[aristeides]

And Athens hasn't even started construction for the Olympic facilities yet.

[Willie Green]

What are the odds that China will collapse and all of those manufacturing jobs might head back our way?

Nil. While highly publicized, the extent appears infinitesimal compared to the massive size of the slave labor pool.

[FreepForever]

If you think that only the manufacturing sector is the big picture, you're correct.

[aristeides]

New SARS travel warnings: Mutations add to SARS puzzle.

[aristeides]

China Animal Market Could Hold Key.

[First Amendment]

That article about the Cantonese "wet market" is truly horrifying. Anyone who thinks that sort of animal cruelty is justified is sick. It also sounds likely that either SARS originated there; if not, other diseases must be spreading. I now feel very, very sick.

[HamiltonJay]

Its headed to being another treatable illness... that's where its headed. I am so sick of the media enflamed hysteria... here is a disease that has been diagnosed and recognized for what a month or two????? And already we have identified it at the molecular level!

Watching the national news last night and you would think that 20% of the worlds population was already dead by the way these idiots were talking.... "why can't medical solve it"..."powerless to stop it" yada yada yada.... NONSENSE.

First it was tagged as instant death, more information over it is showing this not to be the case... now its being portrayed as unstopable and untreatable.. its hogwash! Whipping up hysteria to get ratings. Medical science will handle SARS one way or another... its amazing how spoiled we have become. Even in the worst case scenarios SARS won't overtake other diseases... just this is a new one so oooo oooo ooo the boogey man SARS is gonna kill us all. Its TRIPE!

As of 4/7/03 here are the numbers for SARS WORLDWIDE:

death toll from SARS to 94 and the number of confirmed or suspected infections to 2,718.

More people die every day on this planet from starvation or malaria or HIV or TB or other diseases or infections at the rate of hundreds if not thousands of times the total number of worldwide SARS nfections.

Stop buying into the media enflamed hype.

[Illbay]

They're just upset that the Iraq war was so short.

Sort of like NBC Sports upset at a four-game sweep of the World Series, or a Super Bowl game where the winner is up 28-0 by the end of the First Quarter.

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

What are the odds that China will collapse and all of those manufacturing jobs might head back our way?

Not a chance. If businesses started to flee China for some reason (not SARS, IMO), they wouldn't come back to the US, where labor costs would kill them. Instead they would go to other south- and southeast-Asian countries where the labor is still cheap.

Actually, China may eventually end up being a victim of its own economic success. I read a prediction recently to the effect that with rising prosperity, in a few decades China will be complaining about losing its manufacturing base to neighboring countries.

[FreepForever]

Yes, Chinese eat everything with four legs, except tables. And, they eat everything with wings, except airplanes. Sooner or later, they will eat tables and airplanes, if they boil them long enough.

[aristeides]

SARS tied to genetic engineering?

[FreepForever]

Thanks for the post: SARS tied to genetic engineering?

Amen to that.

[blam]

"SARS tied to genetic engineering?"

I'm not ready to go there yet.

"Concludes Ho: “With genetic- engineered constructs and organisms routinely released into the environment, we hardly need the help of terrorists. That may be why we are coming up against new epidemics of viral and bacterial diseases with increasing regularity. Mother Nature is not the ultimate terrorist, we are."

[martianagent]

All indicators show that China is on the brink of an unprecedented explosion of the AIDS epidemic.

China has a shortage of something like 70 million women at present due to their one-child rule. They're going to need a flag with a hammer, a sickle, and a pink flamingo on it. AIDS could easily become a major problem for them...

[FreepForever]

Contrary to public belief, China's AIDS problem stems not from homosexual activities but from the widely popular commercial activity of "blood selling" in poverty regions. Since the government is buying plasma from the mass public to make highly profitable medicine, illegal merchants are collecting blood from rural areas where disposable needles are reused. In addition, the blood collected are not tested. This helps to spread AIDS nationwide.

The Communist government of China is really a blood sucker. Now, it is making a "sucker" out of itself. I really pity those innocent victims, though. Do you know what they got for selling two packs of blood? Fifty yuan (about US$6) and that's the cost of one human life.

[Domestic Church]

"The epidemic is even more dangerous in rural China where the medical infrastructure is very primitive. In remote towns and villages, there's no hospitals barring dismal clinics"

It will eliminate the AIDS problem there that's for sure. It will also eliminate the need for a one child per family rule. The shoe fits.