Agitprop in action? [Was U.S. SARS Outbreak? Vallejo, California]

5/25.03

[I_Love_My_Husband]

Heads up everyone! The Bay Area has a HUGE illegal Asian immigrant population!

This has not hit SF Chron yet because it's un-pc, I'm sure, but I live in the Bay Area (open borders land) and I'm freaked!

[I_Love_My_Husband]

PING!

[CheneyChick]

ping...

[aristeides]

Latest news I can find on the case of the nursing home in Texas: Respiratory infection cited in four deaths at (Texas) VA nursing home .

[Billy_bob_bob]

I've seen this same "SARS in Vallejo" story from other sources that I don't consider to be highly reliable. However, Sierra Times is a source that I do give some credence to. If SARS is raging in China then it is virtually certain that SARS will be raging in the Bay Area as well, since the population of the Bay Area is largely Asian now.

[sweetliberty]

What can y'all find out about this?

[Dog Gone]

This seems totally unreliable to me. I don't believe it.

[patriciaruth]

If this was going to get out of control, it would be at an HMO, our version of socialism.

[strela]

Sierra Times, eh? The same crew that once claimed that Tennessee state troopers trained automatic weapons on the crowd at an anti-tax protest rally. I'd sooner believe a Debka article claiming that the sun was going to rise in the West tomorrow.

[CobaltBlue]

I've been reading similar reports by respiratory therapists recently - some really bad pneumonia that's killing a lot of elderly people.

Could be SARS, could be something else, could be we are all hyperaware right now so notice every little thing that we used to ignore.

[riri]

Apparently, the Astraea Kelly person has some credibility issues. She is some type of left wing labor organizer. This story has been going around here for about three weeks. I haven't seen anything to refute or substansiate the claims.

However, here is a link from Wednesday that is somewhat related. Check it out.

Kaiser reports SARS case

[per loin]

The one you linked to seems to be a real and believable story. But I'd not believe Astraea without strong substantiation, and by this time we should have had that from other sources in the area.

[per loin]

Any stats on what "a lot of elderly people" means?

[jde1953]

'Any stats on what "a lot of elderly people" means?'

This could be the result of confusion with a recent story about a fairly nasty gastrointestinal disease making the rounds in a nursing home in the San Francisco bay area.

Not like any true Free Republic writer would ever get any facts confused or wrong, of course.

[Calpernia]

PING

[Ditter]

I just sent this to my cousin in the SF Bay area. His wife is Chinese & a Dr. she has worked at Kaiser as well. He is going to check it out & get back to me.

[greasepaint]

Sierra Times, similar to The_Onion... ?

[CobaltBlue]

I can't even remember where I read it, now. If I find it, I will let you know.

[FITZ]

It wouldn't surprise me if it started here in the USA in just this way. Hospitals will do whatever they can to prevent a panic, they need the employees to show up for work and of course the other patients. They aren't going to broadcast there could be SARS --not even after they have proof.

[FITZ]

But I'd not believe Astraea without strong substantiation, and by this time we should have had that from other sources in the area.

Me neither ---but the other sources might be reluctant to come forward. Until there is confirmation ---and how many people would really have access to the diagnosis? The diagnosis can be pneumonia ---it may not directly say "SARS" in anything people are going to see.