Vivek Padiyan’s Reviews > Smoke And Mirrors > Status Update

"But the idea that a mysterious disease could be out there, infecting thousands and killing hundreds while a quiescent media were muzzled from reporting on it by a government desperate to avoid bad news even at the expense of putting the lives of its citizens at risk seemed implausible"

- the author reflects on China. And this book was written in 2008. Guess some things don't change!