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Pastimes : SARS - what next?
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To: FaultLine who wrote (106)4/14/2003 3:33:50 PM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (1) of 1070
 
Famous Last Words: <Some of China's savviest and most Westernized leaders sound callous when they defend the government's handling of SARS. Long Yongtu, who as a senior trade official did much of the hard bargaining for China to join the W.T.O. in 2001, told an audience in Hong Kong recently that the press was hyping SARS.

"Twelve people in Beijing got SARS and three died," he said, citing some older statistics. "Beijing has 10 million people. We don't need to get so excited.">

25% death rate is a BIG worry. Especially if they have 10 million people crowded together, which makes infection easier. Down on a Kiwi farm, with neighbours a kilometre away, infection is more tricky.

The facts he finds consoling are exactly the facts which I find worrying.

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