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From Diplomats pull out over bug fears, about SARS in China:

"People live and work normally. The society is stable and travel safe," Health Minister Zhang Wenkang said on Thursday.

And productivity is up 15%!

Comments

[xiadyn.livejournal.com]

It cracks me up that the default announcement from government officials in China is always "things are fine!" They should just make it official and start a Ministry of Reassuring Foreign Investors.

It occurred to me yesterday that SSIC could do double-duty as a SARS monitoring system. I wonder if we can get extra money for that.

[gfish.livejournal.com]

There has been some talk of that, but so far the county hasn't seemed interested.

In fact, Bill called me to discuss that idea just as I was getting on the plane for DC. There was a non-zero chance that I'd end up skipping the conference and doing emergency SARS retro-fitting of the new SSIC client from the hotel room. Luckily it wasn't necessary.

It's really odd to be boarding a plane talking about bioterrorism monitoring. I felt obliged to do some... creative censorship of what I said out loud.

[vixyish.livejournal.com]

I imagine that would've been a little creepy, yeah.