Posted on 06/25/2003 8:50:11 PM PDT by Enemy Of The State
I wonder if China still uses prisoners for experiments.
Shouldn't the Chinese have invented this vaccine FIRST before they released SARS as a 'bioengineered' bioterrorism weapon - or are they so clever so as to release it NOW in order to make it 'look like' they just made this discovery?
CLEVER those Chinese ...
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China's SARS victory questionedMIRACLE: Health officials wondered how Beijing managed to go from 300 new cases a day to zero in less than a month, prompting the WHO to lift its warnings on China
By Ko Shu-ling
STAFF REPORTER
Thursday, Jun 26, 2003,Page 3
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"China will `contaminate' the functions of the WHO if it continues to oppress Taiwan." |
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Lin Chia-lung, Cabinet spokesman |
Lee Ming-liang, vice convener of the Cabinet's SARS Control and Relief Committee, yesterday was puzzled by how China was removed list of affected areas. The WHO simultaneously lifted its travel advisory on Beijing.
Lee said Beijing's performance was so incredible that it was inexplicable in the light of public-health theory.
"During the peak on May 6, there were still 300 new SARS cases each day in Beijing. How come on May 31, there were suddenly zero cases. It means China contained the disease in less than one month, which is unbelievable," Lee said.
Lee said that during the peak in Hong Kong and Singapore, there were 156 and 22 cases respectively. But it took more than two months for these two areas to get the disease under control.
"On May 6, Taiwan's SARS cases were only one-fifth of those in Beijing. It also took-three-and-half weeks for Taiwan to contain SARS," Lee said. " I really have no idea how China made it."
Yu yesterday called on China to stop suppressing Taiwan in the political and medical arenas and called on the WHO not to cave in to China's pressure to exclude 23 million Taiwanese from the international medical network.
"China will `contaminate' the functions of the WHO if it continues to oppress Taiwan. Its bullying will not only make Taiwanese people detest it even more but also create a backlash in the international community," Cabinet Spokesman Lin Chia-lung quoted Yu as saying yesterday morning after the weekly closed-door Cabinet meeting.
According to Lin, China made the WHO change the name "Taiwan" to "Taiwan Province, China" in a report filed by the medical experts dispatched by the WHO to Taipei, recommending the global health body to remove the country from the travel advisory list.
"Examples like this highlight that we're under the suppression of China at every turn," Lin said.
Taiwan was removed from the list on June 17 -- 41 days after the WHO issued the travel warning against the country on May 8.
Despite the continued pressure, Lin said the nation will continue to participate in international events, including APEC's health ministers' meeting scheduled for tomorrow in Bangkok.
According to Lin, Department of Health Director-General Chen Chien-jen, who is scheduled to leave today, will represent the nation at the meeting.
Lin said that the government is set to lift various control measures imposed on visitors from Hong Kong and Macau today and on Beijing on Monday or Tuesday next week.
Was this a result of finally getting some definitive tests and test methodology in place so every case of respiratory infection that walks inside the hospital door wouldn't simply be classified SARS by hospital personnel -
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- or was their 'point' made (to whomever - various 'world powers', bankers, would politicos) so they could 'feel free' to turn off the 'tap' that was producing SARS?
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Shouldn't the Chinese have invented this vaccine FIRST before they released SARS as a 'bioengineered' bioterrorism weapon - or are they so clever so as to release it NOW in order to make it 'look like' they just made this discovery?
CLEVER those Chinese ...
Not so clever. Their trying to prove that they can always satisfy the demand through enforced state production is shot down by the coming of a virus. Now if they try to build viral strains to scam people into believing that China can meet such prescient crystal ball seen demand by doing such scams, it will bite them and the world in the arse.
This is the danger of communism ultimately. Because, you see, to bioegineer a virus, the virus itself must inherently be open to mutations and lab modifications. So, bioengineered viral weapons get easily out of control. If they are not smart enough and that they rely instead on a "smart" virus, this charade is going to be very dangerous.
Perhaps we need to question if any information coming out of China can be considered valid at all?
I suggest we forget about trying to find anything useful in the "news" that China chooses to "share" with the world.
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