[FreepForever]

The above report was written by an expatriate working in Beijing some time ago. He had left China for good due to the SARS epidemic. Sigh... With the Communists in power, China has never changed and it probably never will.

[FreepForever]

Another China cover-up, only with bigger long-term impact.

[First Amendment]

Long after the SARS epidemic has been contained, the AIDS threat will continue to mount, even to the point of turning China into "the next Africa" in terms of AIDS devastation.

For the record, I believe that the writer of the above article is a homosexual himself, so this may have colored his viewpoint a little.

I have read that there is a very high rate of (heterosexual) promiscuity in Africa, and also that the strain of HIV virus is more virulent than what is common in the US. I wonder about China - are people more monogamous there, or are they promiscuous? Those two factors - especially peoples' behaviors - will determine whether AIDS becomes widespread like in Africa or not. I notice he calles prostitutes "sex workers" - that kind of politically correct "values neutral" speech is kind of nauseating and does nothing to help stop the spread of STDs.

[harpseal]

According to the Homosexual lobby the USA should become a workers paradise like China is supposed to be so that AIDS patients can be better treated.

[boris]

"Reason? With SARS, everyone is at risk -- the young, the healthy, the elderly, etc. SARS is an equal-opportunity virus. It threatens tourists and businesspeople; it could even infect Party members. AIDS, on the other hand, selects as its victims those who, to the CCP, don't matter very much -- sex trade workers, impoverished peasants who sell blood in remote rural provinces, injection drug users, and of course, the group that doesn't even exist in China, homosexuals."

Not quite. The important differences are that (1) SARS is acute, meaning you get sick and die in a hurry, and it is difficult not to notice this. AIDS takes its time. (2) SARS is much more contagious than AIDS, spreading like a true pandemic and opportunistically taking advantage of modern travel to spread; and (3) SARS does not depend (much) upon individual behavior in order to infect or be infected. You can infect others with SARS merely by sharing the same space, occupying the same building, etc. AIDS requires, ahem, much more intimate contact.

--Boris

[mabelkitty]

There seems to be major unrest and an uprising by the people over SARS.

This could very well turn out to be the staw by broke the Communists' back. The ruling elite are not immune from the disease, and the military, whose hospitals are filled with SARS patients, won't dare risk getting it to stop the protesting.

They've already burned down one hospital over this, so as I see, they only have a few options: a)allow the world inside to take over the control the disease, b) flee to Europe (since America won't dare let you scum inside, or c) stay and be murdered in the streets by the peasants.

I hope it's the third option. Would be Schadenfreude for Tienneman Square.

[Prince Charles]

The main cause of AIDS in China has not been sexual transmission but contaminated needles, mainly those shared by injection drug users, but also needles used in unsanitary ways during paid plasma collection.

Shades of Blood Trail, the Clinton scandal wherein Arkansas prisoners' blood was illegally sold on the open market, thereby infecting tens of thousands of people with HepC and HIV, among other things, and all the while the proceeds were lining the pockets of Clintonistas.