I am Shocked! Shocked, I tell you!
Why are you shocked?
Do you think the Chinese would just let criticism of them 'walk out the door' unchecked?
- that there is some south American country that is attempting to CENSOR broadcasts by another country by JAMMING a Spanish language broadcast - and that's RIGHT HERE IN OUR OWN hemisphere?
Yup. On the forty-meter international shortwave broadcast band ...
The Red Chinese are once again reverting to their natural form.
SARS Mortality Rates [reflects treatment] Based on World Health Organization daily tables (Revised: May 14 pm) |
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Area | Recoveries to date | Deaths to date | Recent** Death Rate | Active Cases still in Danger | Projected Future Deaths | Projected Cumulative Mortality | |
China | 1811 | 267 | 16.3% | 3046 | 496 | 14.9% | |
Taiwan | 38 | 30 | 60.6% | 170 | 103 | 55.9% | |
Hong Kong | 1128 | 227 | 20.5% | 343 | 70 | 17.5% | |
elsewhere [30 countries] |
420 | 63 | 14.6% | 85 | 12 | 13.2% | |
World-wide [all 33 countries] |
3397 | 587 | 3644 | 584 | 15.4% | ||
** Future deaths are based on findings from the Imperial College of London that deaths take 12 days longer on average than recoveries on average (Deaths to Date) / (Deaths to Date + Recoveries as of 12 days ago) You can click here to see if there is a pointer to a newer revision. |
Trend - Active Cases Still in Danger [reflects containment] | |||||||
Date | China | Taiwan | Hong Kong | elsewhere 30 countries |
World-wide all 33 countries |
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Apr 30 | 1969 | 41 | 641 | 170 | 2821 | ||
May 1 | 2117 | 61 | 604 | 129 | 2911 | ||
May 2 | 2246 | 67 | 563 | 117 | 2993 | ||
May 3 | 2375 | 67 | 544 | 111 | 3097 | ||
May 4 (est.) | 2507 | 75 | 532 | 113 | 3227 | ||
May 5 | 2641 | 83 | 520 | 114 | 3358 | ||
May 6 | 2735 | 81 | 495 | 112 | 3423 | ||
May 7 | 2854 | 88 | 466 | 115 | 3523 | ||
May 8 | 2945 | 92 | 445 | 106 | 3588 | ||
May 9 | 2993 | 110 | 442 | 101 | 3646 | ||
May 10 | 3029 | 128 | 427 | 99 | 3683 | ||
May 11 (est.) | 3049 | 133 | 413 | 97 | 3692 | ||
May 12 | 3068 | 138 | 399 | 95 | 3700 | ||
May 13 | 3061 | 153 | 374 | 89 | 3677 | ||
May 14 | 3046 | 170 | 343 | 85 | 3644 | ||
(includes new daily cases... excludes cases resolved by death or recovery) |
Is there even the slightest hint of embarrassment in that statement? I can't detect any.
Should China be embarrassed or apologetic about its policy of censorship? If a Chinese government official were to be pressed to explain the legitimacy of his country's censorship policies, do you think he would attempt to justify them expressly on the grounds that they facilitate the oppression and manipulation of the Chinese people? I don't think so.
I think a Chinese official would attempt to rationalize the censorship as necessary (in this particular case) to his country's effort to defeat the SARS epidemic. I think he would claim that foreign broadcasts that are critical of China's SARS policies are nothing more than "propaganda" which would tend to dangerously undermine the confidence of the Chinese people in their government and to damage the morale of those Chinese people who are on the "front lines" in the battle against SARS.
That's what I think he would say.