swine flu

www.farwestchina.com — Regular Hao Hao Reporters already know Josh's blog is one of the best China blogs out there. If you've only suspected this, now it's confirmed. Josh is in Xinjiang, teaching English through a school-mandated mask and letting us know what's up in the NW.

www.google.com — This one slipped by me until I did a search for swine flu-related articles today. This acknowledgment seems to be surprisingly out of character for the Chinese government, but maybe that's just an impression I have that's not born out by actual fact.

www.echinacities.com — Here is another story of a guy who unfortunately in all the hysteria and as a result of symptoms ended being quarantined for a week in Jakarta in a sub par hospital. Despite the "dangers" of his infirmity, they felt a chalkboard blocking the door was enough to be solitary confinement!

www.feer.com — The Mushroon Farmer Approach to Media Management: Keep Them in the Dark and Feed Them Shit. "Foreigners have sickness, Chinese don't. Chinese pigs are have even more no sickness"

Video of a press-conference with a health official on H1N1 in China. Even the attendant journalists burst out in a fit of laughter.