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Pastimes : SARS - what next? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ilaine who wrote (477)	5/19/2003 6:01:44 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 1070

<I just think it's reallyreallystrange that SARS deaths everywhere in Asia but China proper are such a high percentage of the number of infections. > CB, I decided it's due to over-reporting in China of all sorts of infections as being sars. Such as the infection I had. I'd have been a sars case for sure in China. Even had the temperature. But didn't get the cough, which was a disappointment. I doubt that there's been any hiding of the facts in the past month. It's hard to hide an elephant. A bit like the USSR had trouble hiding Chernobyl once the geiger counters started going nuts in Woking, England, where we lived at the time [south-west London] Also, the gerontocracy of China has a great interest in stopping sars because diseases are notoriously ignorant about who is high in status and deserving of privileged treatment and advantage. When poverty and problems stop at the city gates, or outside the palace walls, they are easier to ignore and speak easily of. Mqurice