Volume I No. 68
 04-16-03
 The True Face Of China
 { Unnecessary SARS Deaths
   Because Of The Chinese Government }
 author: Vance Cureton
 © Copyright 2003

 The disease starts no differently than any other common virus. 
 The victim usually feels a fever coming on. -- The first true symptom.
 His or her temperature races to 100.4 F. The fever is likely to be
 accompanied by general body aches and pains.

 In the following days the patient may develop an uncomfortable
 dry, hacking cough. Simultaneously, a patient may also begin to 
 develop more serious respiratory difficulties. So severe that the 
 patient may need mechanical assistance in breathing.

 The patient may remain bed-ridden and incapicitated for a week 
 or more. Most victims recover. A slow tiresome process dealing
 with fatigue and shortness of breath during everyday normal
 physical activity. Unfortunately, in perhaps five to ten percent 
 of the cases, the patient never even begins the recovery process, 
 loses the battle against the virus, and succumbs.

 These are the traits of SARS. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome. 
 A very serious and too-often fatal disease suspected of being 
 the result of an infection by a coronavirus. A family of viruses 
 that are the cause of the common cold.

 No one knows exactly how or why SARS has become the deadly
 microbe that it is. Whether it is a "new" or unkown virus that has 
 made the cross-species leap from lesser animals such as ducks,
 chickens, or pigs. And up the evolutionary tree to humans. Or 
 whether it is a mutated pre-existing virus. Or a combination of 
 the two possible origins. An unknown coronavirus that mutated 
 to a deadly form as it made that cross-species leap.

 But it is an accepted fact that SARS originated in south China 
 late last year, { possibly November } in the area of Shanglang. 
 A small village in Guangdong, Province. Predictably, as this 
 deadly new disease did its damage in Guangdong, the local 
 goverments refused to admit that there was a new serious health 
 threat to public. The number of actual cases were thus, badly 
 under-reported.

 Apparently, China's governmental-hierarchy cared only that SARS 
 presented a threat - not to public health - but to the tourist season 
 that arrives May 1st. -- And to China's international reputation.

 Please explain that one!

 In other words, counting tourist dollars was more important than 
 admitting the existence of a deadly new contagion. A disease that
 had the potential to spread rapidly outside of China. And was in
 fact doing so. It was only after SARS became an international crisis 
 did officials in China admit to the WHO the true magnitude of the 
 problem in Guandong, and other areas of southern China. { including
 Hong, Kong } And began reporting more accurate figures.

 This is outrageous! SARS kills people. There is no specific treatment
 available for this disease. And a vaccine is perhaps months, if not 
 years away. { by which time the crisis might be over and thousands 
 dead } 

 Totalitarian governments live in fear of their own populace. And 
 do not tolerate "meddling" from outsiders. China's well-known 
 cultural xenophobia only adds to that negative dimension. That is 
 why any unforseen and unpredictable circumstance { such as a 
 public health crisis } must be quickly controlled. And access to 
 internal information by organizations outside of governmental 
 control, { such as international health organizations } must remain 
 as restricted as possible.

 The old men in Beijing obviously don't care how many people may 
 yet die of SARS - inside and outside of China - while they go through 
 their foot-dragging routine, in an effort to maintain absolute control. 
 And protect the prestige of the Chinese mainland. 

 As if the emergence of a deadly disease in China is nothing more 
 than an Act of God. -- Or whatever they believe in. And is in fact. 
 No one's fault.

 Unimagined crises such as the one that SARS presents, only serves
 to demonstrate the stark contrast between the sweetness of liberty 
 and freedom. Such as exists in the United States. And the darkness 
 of totalitarianism. Such as exists in China. 

 The government of the United States does not fear its own people. 
 So there is no panic here amongst the governmental bureacracy, 
 when unforseen events emerge. The government serves the public 
 willingly.

 Not the other way around.

 There is no need for "hiding" flu epidemics, seasonal floods, crop
 failures, or gas explosions in dilapidated apartment buildings. As if 
 they were all state secrets. Or as if to admit that they actually occurred 
 would somehow create a national crisis and a resultant loss of 
 governmental authority and control.

 No matter how Jiang Zemin and his other Communist Party comrades
 are determined to dress up Red China in another color. And pretend 
 that the country is not the brutally repressive regime, that the world
 knows it to be. -- All in the cynical interest of acquiring billions of dollars 
 in international investment.

 China's ugly totalitarian roots remain what they are. The communist 
 hoard at highest rungs of the goverment, remain heartless and cruel. 
 Interested in perpetuating fiction, rather than truth. 

 China arrogantly demands that it be accepted into the international 
 community of responsible nations. But judging by China's indifferent 
 response to a genuine international health crisis, those words ring 
 hollow. 

 Just ask the grieving families of the unfortunates around the world 
 who have needlessly succumbed to SARS. Lives lost so that the paranoid 
 old men in Beijing, can sleep comfortably at night.
 

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