From Global Voices:
“China: Quarantining all Mexicans”
Health officials in China might be reading too much Michelle Malkin these days; following a decision to cancel all flights from Mexico, which then warned its citizens to stay away from China, authorities in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou are reported to have rounded up at least 41 Mexican citizens, none of whom are said to be showing any symptoms of H1N1.
Portal news websites such as Global Times are closely reporting on all developments of the global endemic; in a story on the “dissatisfaction” expressed by the Mexican ambassador to China, Jorge Guajardo—who earlier suggested that H1N1 originated in Eurasia—at seeing Mexican citizens being singled out, readers have written:
When someone gets sick, out of concern for the health of others they should just stay put at home and take care of their pigs, not go around spreading the virus. And nobody invited you here, so it’s better than you don’t come.
With communicable diseases of this degree, we should quarantine anyone who comes under suspicion. If we suspect a bunch, then quarantine them all. With a population of 1.3 billion, I’d be fine if we quarantined a hundred of them.
Aye, enough already. They want to come to our country and make a mess, bust up our country, they’re just really devious.
With countries as hostile and unfriendly to China as this one, why should we help them?! Just what do our diplomats think they’re doing? Why aren’t they telling us what the real attitudes toward China are overseas? From the looks of it, that five million USD was a real waste. We should be calling for the dismissal of our diplomatic personnel posted overseas!
I can see why Mexican diplomats are “dissatisfied”, but this dissatisfaction is absolutely useless in protecting the lives of the people. That H1N1 spread so widely in just a few days just goes to show that the measures taken by their government aren’t paying off.
Fire this ambassador and get a new one
Good job, you need to consider the lives and safety of the people. If the virus spreads to our country, will Western politicians come help us then? Pay them no attention. Putting a temporary halt to flights was the correct thing to do. The government has done an extremely good job this time, and I support them wholeheartedly.
To send them all home would be the best, but I support quarantining them. If they’re not willing to go back though, what happens if it spreads? At this time, we should be thinking about the interests of the majority of the people. Even though we quarantined them, we are still treating them, and no thanks for it
Roll off back to Mexico!
Influenza has an incubation period, and even our own people are in quarantine, so what makes you so special?! What’s more, the first case within China was one of you Mexicans! If you hadn’t come, China’s number of infected and suspected cases will still be at zero!!!!!
What’s so wrong about thinking about everyone’s safety? In times like these, where people are from isn’t important. The Chinese people unlucky enough to be on the same plane as the infected person were quarantined too!! You haven’t been infected with the virus yourself, have you?!
Over at NetEase, news that H1N1 has now passed from a human to pigs on one farm in Western Canada has received over a thousand comments; those currently being highlighted read:
Craziness, but is the problem with pigs or with people?
The world’s pigs are terrified: “people flu is coming”
I think I read before that if passes to pigs, it can mutate. Canada’s in trouble.
Ah, so it’s the pigs’ fault?
[Note from Fauna: "原来还是猪的错" should be "So it was the pigs' fault after all."]
Specialists who said pigs couldn’t catch this virus must be blood relatives of pigs themselves, otherwise they wouldn’t be so clear on the subject!
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