[ken5050]

The women's soccer games have just been move to the US....has anyone seen any speculation as to what is the time line to move the 2008 Olympics out of China?...

[xJones]

Meanwhile, the Chinese government is running ads trying to attract tourists back to Beijing.

[aristeides]

I guess the reports of the end of the epidemic in Peking were premature.

[aristeides]

The optimistic side of the story: SARS Outbreaks Eases in Asia, but Stress Level Remains High.

[Future Useless Eater]

• China's 'official' SARS numbers and their recent 'improvements' are bogus.
• Many areas outside of Beijing had been exploding, Then abruptly stopped ALL REPORTS of NEW 'PROBABLE' cases in most cases about 2 weeks ago.
  Here are some examples...

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Inner Mongolia (province) - TOTAL 'probable' case count
                                   Jun 01 (284 TOTAL 'probable' cases)
April 28 (114 TOTAL 'probable' cases)
[abrupt change occurred May 10]

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Guandong (province) - TOTAL 'probable' case count
                                   Jun 01 (1511 TOTAL 'probable' cases)
April 28 (1395 TOTAL 'probable' cases)
[abrupt change occurred May 10]   ...vertical scale = 1350 to 1520

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Tianjin (municipality) - TOTAL 'probable' case count
                                   Jun 01 (175 TOTAL 'probable' cases)
April 28 (43 TOTAL 'probable' cases)
[abrupt change occurred May 14]

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Shanxi (province) - TOTAL 'probable' case count
                                   Jun 01 (448 TOTAL 'probable' cases)
April 28 (243 TOTAL 'probable' cases)
[abrupt change about May 14]   ...vertical scale = 200 to 450

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The only way these skyrocketing graphs could flat-line SO ABRUPTLY is China cheating
on their reporting, and to stop reporting any new SARS cases as 'probable'.

[Prince Charles]

It is obvious that some people have covered up the outbreak, and the situation has not been represented whatsoever in government-issued SARS statistics.

Just as we have suspected.

[farmfriend]

This reads like a '70s disaster film where the evil developer refuses to protect the peole for money reasons.

[steve86]

But _Jim and D. Brian Carter will say that there's no reason to be concerned unless the space aliens can be shown to have altered DNA as a result of the SARS outbreak.

[DannyTN]

What worries me is that China and Canada are setting the examples for all other government's to follow.

Every government now has to decide whether to honestly address SARS and suffer an immediate economic impact as the public reacts. Or to try to cover up SARS and risk a greater spread both in their domain and without.

So far China and Canada has opted for the cover-up. One wonders how many other governments have already been influenced by their cowardice.

[DannyTN]

What worries me is that China and Canada are setting the examples for all other government's to follow.

Every government now has to decide whether to honestly address SARS and suffer an immediate economic impact as the public reacts. Or to try to cover up SARS and risk a greater spread both in their domain and without.

So far China and Canada has opted for the cover-up. One wonders how many other governments have already been influenced by their cowardice.

[_Jim]

New SARS disaster looms in Beijing

Geez .. just so long as it's not galloping across the globe into *my* hemisphere ...