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...Still, Chinese health-care workers are unwilling to talk too openly; one Shanghai doctor reports that local hospitals were warned by municipal officials last Thursday not to speak to any media, even the state-controlled Xinhua News Agency. This muffling was mandated to quell public panic over the outbreak, says a Guangzhou journalist, whose newspaper received a gag order directly from the Central Propaganda Bureau in Beijing: "The party's biggest fear is social instability...
...know exactly what we need to do to win,” Pettit said. “We don’t panic, and we have a lot of experienced guys that have been there before. We’re going in with a lot of desperation, and we’re going to be able to win some big games...
...Panic - and Hope
...panic really began in Erbil on Monday. That was when people started to close their shops, buy supplies and head to the hills. On Monday about 75 percent of shops were open; by Wednesday less than half were still doing business. People were buying gas and jerrycans, and plastic sheeting for windows in case of a chemical weapons attack. Gas went from 50 cents a gallon to $2, plastic sheeting from 25 cents a meter to 65 cents...
...We’re not pushing the panic button,” Stone said. “We learned a good lesson today. We understand that we all have to be ready to go. But for us to try to change what we’ve done all year—what we’ve done all year has worked for us. It may not have worked today, but I like our chances as we go forward...