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Thursday, May 01, 2003More good Canadian info. Illustrating the perils of recordkeeping, I suppose. WHO lifts its ban on Toronto because no new cases have been reported in 20 days, and the very same WHO reports four new cases in Canada during the period 4/28 to 4/29. The Canadian gov't site reports two more probable and eight more suspect in the same time frame, the two probable and four of the suspect are in Ontario. I think it's fair to say the WHO really didn't lift its ban because there hadn't been any new cases... Just that they got so much flack about it. When Toronto began fussing about the travel ban last week, one WHO official was quoted by the Times as believing any lifting of it would be due to political, not medical, realities. Chuck's data seems to support this: Number of Canadian cases on April 28. Number of Canadian cases on April 30. The WHO accounting of Canadian cases as of April 30. The figures speak for themselves. And speaking of honesty as policy, Dissecting Leftism is attempting a one-man battle to bring transparency to that bastion of dishonesty, China: The Chinese seem to have become really serious about internet censorship in recent months. They re-blocked Blogspot some time ago and lots of other sites are blocked too -- including at least some Lycos and some Yahoo. I have therefore decided to do my tiny bit towards keeping communications open by putting a mirror of my blog up on a site that China does NOT block. I keep all my blog entries as a file so once I have written my blog entries for the day, it takes me only a couple of minutes extra to put them up on a second site. So in future my blog will also be accessible at the following address: http://members.optusnet.com.au/~jonjayray/tripod.html. The site concerned is hosted by my local ISP so it may stay too insignificant to be blocked by China. With ISP hosting, the site is also advertising-free, which is a bit of a bonus. I will also be putting up my "China" postings several hours before I put them on Blogspot. Because Blogspot is so trouble-prone, I do not post there until just after midnight, California time, in the hope that the load and the errors will be minimal then. I would be much obliged if anyone with contacts in China would let them know of the new site. I even have some archives there so people can catch up with what was posted in the last 6 weeks or so. posted by Sydney on 5/01/2003 08:25:00 AM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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