[ex-Texan]

China is lying about SARS again. Is any one on FR the least bit surprised?

[aristeides]

No, not a surprise.

[Prince Charles]

Red China has been building a tissue of lies from the very genesis of this outbreak. They've not changed in the least.

[IYAAYAS]

It's probably raging out of control and they've just given up.

[flutters]

No one is able to say if patients locked away for such treatment are responding to treatment and are recovering, or have been simply locked away to die a slow and agonizing death.

Sad. Very sad.

What is truly shocking is that Chinese health officials had not quarantined the project (Beiyuan Gardens). People were simply left on their own to stay indoors, or leave, or flee into the city or the countryside. It is unknown if any action has been taken as late as June 5th.

It sounds like they’ve given up.

[Filibuster_60]

It's probably too early to tell how much SARS is being undercounted. We have to remember that a very large percentage of China's population has respiratory ailments of some kind to begin with, so the difficulty in enumerating SARS cases isn't simply a matter of dishonest officials.

It's interesting that SARS infection rate has apparently tapered off in both Hong Kong and southern Guangdong province where it originally came from. In those two places at least, I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt, as they're highly integrated with the world economy and major outbreaks are virtually impossible to cover up. If SARS decimates the workforce of some toy factory manufacturing products for an MNC, I wonder how they can prevent that from being known.