As we know, China is hosting the olympics and they also are witholding the news..nothing new there. Flutrackers is not a political site and I like it that way, however some sites we are gettin questionable news from ,are definitely against the Chinese govt. I intend to post relavent stories from them, but remember to take the news with a grain of salt
Some will be rumors and some will be half truths..some will be the real deal.Tracking and deciphering news from there is an arduos task and very time consuming. Finding disease news from them is like pulling hens teeth!
There is extreme pollution in China and they are going to extreme measures to correct it for the olympics.. such as shutting factories down in Beijing, closing highways and limiting traffic and they have also pulled all the army troops from the quake areas. Speaking of the quake areas.. that news has been shut down..there are no huge outbreaks of infectious diseases, ANYWHERE in the quake zone or China overall for that matter .. maybe a little HFM.
The olympics may be threatened with terrorism, smog, bird flu or any other contageous disease we can imagine and they will have their task at hand to put on a good face..and that will be hard to see with everyone wearing masks, so dont be alarmed!
In my opinion we are at a critical time in tracking disease outbreaks and we are just a few that are doing our best to get a heads up on all this crazy stuff. Most gov'ts don't want us to know what is going on in their countries far as disease is concerned, so we have to stay on base. I can hunt news for hrs at a time and see nothing new or nothing that hasn't been posted. If I see a new story at another site I will bring that here too. Sometimes I see smaller stories that I send to a few friends, but now I will try to put them on a single thread..just everyday stories about diseases or disease control measures or birds that died mysteriously. It may be a story about an outbreak of something somewhere else besides China. Somedays I may not post anything. If it is a major story, it will get its own thread or be posted to an existing one All of you are welcome and invited to post your strange China news here.
I would like to limit the reports to disease only, unless there is a large disaster or something. If there is any funny stuff or an actual attack, small or large I will probably report on that too. I don't really expect any, as the Chinese have positioned over 500,000 soldiers in Beijing,are checking every single car and person, made countless arrest.. also may be bugging hotel room internet connections. All tv coverage will be on a 10 second time delay at least.Tons of stories have been removed and plenty of websites don't translate with google, "China's good friend". This is getting worse as the olympics approach.
Flu season is any time in China and I don't intentionally want to single them out as the only bad guys. If ALL gov'ts were more honest in their reporting of disease outbreaks that could affect my family, I would not feel so compelled to find out what the hell is actually going on. I want to try this to make it easier to post the stories I see. If there are objections then I will close it. With that being said, I will start this thread.
Some will be rumors and some will be half truths..some will be the real deal.Tracking and deciphering news from there is an arduos task and very time consuming. Finding disease news from them is like pulling hens teeth!
There is extreme pollution in China and they are going to extreme measures to correct it for the olympics.. such as shutting factories down in Beijing, closing highways and limiting traffic and they have also pulled all the army troops from the quake areas. Speaking of the quake areas.. that news has been shut down..there are no huge outbreaks of infectious diseases, ANYWHERE in the quake zone or China overall for that matter .. maybe a little HFM.
The olympics may be threatened with terrorism, smog, bird flu or any other contageous disease we can imagine and they will have their task at hand to put on a good face..and that will be hard to see with everyone wearing masks, so dont be alarmed!
In my opinion we are at a critical time in tracking disease outbreaks and we are just a few that are doing our best to get a heads up on all this crazy stuff. Most gov'ts don't want us to know what is going on in their countries far as disease is concerned, so we have to stay on base. I can hunt news for hrs at a time and see nothing new or nothing that hasn't been posted. If I see a new story at another site I will bring that here too. Sometimes I see smaller stories that I send to a few friends, but now I will try to put them on a single thread..just everyday stories about diseases or disease control measures or birds that died mysteriously. It may be a story about an outbreak of something somewhere else besides China. Somedays I may not post anything. If it is a major story, it will get its own thread or be posted to an existing one All of you are welcome and invited to post your strange China news here.
I would like to limit the reports to disease only, unless there is a large disaster or something. If there is any funny stuff or an actual attack, small or large I will probably report on that too. I don't really expect any, as the Chinese have positioned over 500,000 soldiers in Beijing,are checking every single car and person, made countless arrest.. also may be bugging hotel room internet connections. All tv coverage will be on a 10 second time delay at least.Tons of stories have been removed and plenty of websites don't translate with google, "China's good friend". This is getting worse as the olympics approach.
Flu season is any time in China and I don't intentionally want to single them out as the only bad guys. If ALL gov'ts were more honest in their reporting of disease outbreaks that could affect my family, I would not feel so compelled to find out what the hell is actually going on. I want to try this to make it easier to post the stories I see. If there are objections then I will close it. With that being said, I will start this thread.
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