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Saturday, April 05, 2003 SARS Been reading up on the second-string news story of the month: the outbreak of the virus dubbed SARS (for Sever Acute Respiratory Syndrome) across the globe. The war has really been bogartting the lime-light for a few weeks, and I feel that SARS isn't getting nearly enough coverage. For example I find out today that there are 115 cases of SARS in the US now. Previously I thought it was still localized in Asia. GWBush just signed the quarantine order for the disease yesterday, and may well have unforeseen side affects on the economy. Why is it that West Nile Virus cases a near panic, but nobody (in America) seems to care about SARS, which is MUCH scarier? I just don't get it. There has been alot of talk (because of the war) about the impact that blogs have on journalism. They provide a much smaller, more personal lens for events. Many people have been turning to blogs such as Where is Raed?, Back-to-Iraq, and the now defunct Kevin Sites page, for their personal accounts of the war. So I went looking for some blogs that are dealing with the SARS issue, and found Big White Guy which is the blog of an Canadian living in Hong Kong. SARS has been a talked about a lot on his site recently (since he IS living on the front-lines) and he has some really great "man on the street" coverage of the outbreak. He talks a lot about the way it is effecting daily-life in HK, which I find the most interesting. Today (April 5th) he mentions that it is even impacting religious observations, as today it he Chin Ming Festival where people tend to the graves of their family members. posted by JMV | 4/05/2003 06:06:00 PM | |
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