THE SARS PANIC IN GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE- WILL PRESIDENT BUSH NOW BOMB CHINESE FARMS?

THE SARS PANIC IN GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE- WILL PRESIDENT BUSH NOW BOMB CHINESE FARMS?

Recent cover pages in international media:

The Economist: ”SARS- The Chernobyl of China?”
Time: ”The Truth about SARS”
Newsweek: “SARS- Can It Be Stopped?”

There is of course a lot more talk about the threat of SARS. It’s causing problems for many economies and fear among millions of people. However the fact is that according to the WHO under 400 people have actually died. Only 400! This number is ridiculous when we think about the tens of thousands of people who die daily because of hunger, AIDS and malaria. Malaria alone kills more than 1 million people in Africa every year. That’s more every day than SARS has killed so far.

The difference is that some rich people have caught SARS in planes flying around the world. Nameless poor people dying because of hunger, malaria and AIDS are not interesting so that we don’t hear of them. The media needs to show us the latest threat now when the major threats of Al Qaida and Saddam have been eliminated. According to an opinion poll 43% of Americans are already worried because of SARS. Poor people dying somewhere far away don’t sell but SARS and other shit does!

The Americans are worried. Maybe it’s time for president Bush to act again to protect the world. SARS might be spreading from Chinese farms. Luckily it’s easy to bomb the farms as a pre-empetive measure. After all there might be a link between SARS, Al Qaida and Saddam.