Less and less people going out. I didn't go grocery shopping over the weekend, but I did hear that people are stockpiling food just in case Shanghai gets to be like Beijing.
To: InShanghai
Normally thriving streets emptied by SARS fears
Excerpt:
Migrant workers and students who have fled this city almost certainly have taken the disease with them to their homes across China. A few hundred SARS cases have emerged in provinces outside of Beijing and Guangdong.
The ramshackle health care services in China's impoverished interior could be swamped if the disease multiplies in the provinces as it has in the capital.
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04/29/2003 7:36:06 AM PDT by
InShanghai
(I was born on the crest of a wave, and rocked in the cradle of the deep.)
To: InShanghai; CathyRyan; Mother Abigail; Dog Gone; Petronski; per loin; riri; flutters; ...
Good luck, InShanghai. Any more reported deaths/cases in Shanghai?
To: InShanghai
Headlines like this that trickle out bits and pieces of information -- like "20 more dead" -- are nonsense. This is not really news, although it passes for news today. Many more will die of SARS tomrrow and next week and the next.
What is news is the effect this health crisis is having on Chinese society and their economy.
6 posted on
04/29/2003 8:15:41 AM PDT by
ex-Texan
(primates capitulards toujours en quete de fromage!)
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