This SARS virus is getting scary. Yesterday I was chatting with a friend who lives in Hong Kong, and he was telling me how the night before they had closed some subway stations in order to disinfect them. He himself is starting a cold, which is worrying him even more. Another friend living in Taipei was telling me how he decided to cancel a planned trip to Hong Kong, China and Thailand in May. Probably a wise decision.
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one of my students told me yesterday that her husbund works in shanghai and when she asked him about SARS he hadn’t even heard about it as the government there hadn’t told anyone about it. kind of scary.
i’ve seen an upswing in people wearing medical masks here, but from most of the people i’ve talked to, this will not do any good because these masks are not good enough to really stop the virus from getting in.
a lot of the reports on the disease seem a little odd, i mean in one report they will say there are so many suspected SARS cases, in another they say there is a large number of cases, i suspect somewhere someone isn’t doing their homework. but either way i’m not going to be exactly happy to have to go in for my health test next month.
I was reading an article yesterday in the latest issue of TIME ASIA, and they were saying that most of the spreading could have been prevented if the Chinese authorities had disclosed everything that was going on as it started (first cases were in Guangdong, last November). Doctors in China have been told not to talk to the media, not even the government’s own Xinjiang agency. The government’s reasoning is that they want to start a panic, but better a panic (and people taking better care of themselves) than being in the dark and letting the virus spread throughout the world.
> The government’s reasoning is that they want to start a panic [...]
start -> avoid
:)
Yeah, I should start re-reading what I write before posting it. Thanks for the correction.