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Posted on 04/09/2003 9:46:29 PM PDT by Raymond Fabrizio
The Chinese government was humbled again by the Internet as it tried to keep quiet the outbreak of SARS last fall. China, as it has done for centuries, tried to keep news of SARS quiet until it could figure out what was going on. But the Chinese secrecy campaign meant that there was no public warning about SARS and those who caught it began to move around. Soon, cases were showing up in Hong Kong, and this made the news, which means the Internet news as well. Chinese Internet users took notice of this, especially people in southern China where SARS first broke out. At that point the government lost control of the information, and even began apologizing this week for keeping this serious international medical matter secret.
This is not the first time China’s government has been so humbled by the Internet; its government does not like it at all. The leaders who run the government have been able to tame all other threats to their power, except the Internet. Chinese leaders are more afraid of the Internet than they are of SARS. There is a minority view that SARS might be the result of an experiment in Medical/Vet School in China, where the virus might have been manufactured.
In America, Dr. Len Horowitz has documented how that some of our infectious diseases including AIDS are the result of experimentation with viruses in our secret labs. No one in government has been able yet to refute his masterful research and documentation.
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