Chinese Don’t Get Sick
Gao Hongbin, China’s vice minister of agriculture, proclaims, “Foreigners have illness, Chinese people don’t have illness, Chinese pigs even more don’t have illness.” Even a room full of cynical journalists cracked up at that one.
Ah, we’re transported back to the SARS days. It’s China’s standard “mushroom farmer” approach to media management again: Keep them in the dark and feed them bullshit.
May 7th, 2009 at 10:04 pm
Haha. This one’s just too in your face.
May 9th, 2009 at 7:44 am
He has a point though, at the time he said that there weren’t any cases of Chinese nationals with pig flu, so his statement that “foreigners” had the flu and Chinese didn’t was true. Maybe he put it a little clumsily but it was right.
May 9th, 2009 at 7:06 pm
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