however, the high mortality rate there (as in mexico earlier this year) remains a mystery

if one closely follows our fights agaisnt flu (and many other epidemics), one better not be over-confident. there's so many things we still simply don't know.

whenever i find criticism against chinese government policy on h1n1, i want to say that.

better be safe than sorry. the fact is clear:

so far china remains to be one of the lowest mortality rate places for h1n1. how much that is related to the stringent policy and whether later china will still be hit hard? again, we don't know.

whatever works, so far so good. that's the only thing we can say.

and citizens will excuse more easily on a hard working government than a do-little one, evne if the end results be similar.