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Sophie's job sent her home -- someone at the office had exposure to SARS and they are disinfecting her office.

There's a site called SoSick.org that lists reported cases in Hong Kong with their sources, including a few cases at school. Good thing classes are cancelled right now.

In the last two days we watched the Amoy Gardens residents moved to quaratine camps, with food, medical services etc brought to them by the government. It's a bit like "Outbreak" and pretty scary.

Sophie's aunt says she was the one who called the authorities to tell them to test the water at Amoy Gardens. She said that in old buildings in Hong Kong, the waste water often leaks into the fresh water. That would be a pretty disgusting way of contracting SARS. We're drinking bottled/boiled water now.

On April 1, a teenager's copied the design of the Ming Pao News website and started a rumour that sparked a wave of panic buying at the stores here when he sent out a false alert that Hong Kong was being declared a quarantine port. Later the government text-messaged everyone's mobile phone to let us know the rumour wasn't true.

The WHO released a travel advisory telling people not to come to HK or Guangdong. I guess no one's going to risk visiting me now ...

Everyone's still wearing their masks outside. Our building has a new clear plastic sheet covering the elevator buttons, to make it easier to wash I assume.

The newspaper made us scared of eating take-away, so I cooked spaghetti w/ chicken breasts last night, the first real dinner I've made since I got here. The spaghetti sauce they sell here for gweilos tastes too sweet, like bad American brands, but otherwise it was OK.

Posted by cce at April 3, 2003 11:31 AM | TrackBack