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And now... SARSblogging.
Twinkle, twinkle, little SARS
How I wonder what you are!
Up inside my lungs so high
Now I can't breathe deep or sigh
Twinkle, twinkle, little SARS
How I wonder what you are.

-- Big White Guy, blogger, Hong Kong




Warblogger Chris Albritton, of Back-to-Iraq.com, was our man in Iraq. Now we've got a blogger in SARS-afflicted Hong Kong who calls himself "Big White Guy."

In addition to documenting what it's like being a 6'3" "Gwi Lo" (Chinese for "Ghost Man") in Hong Kong, he's been writing about life in a frightened, epidemic-stricken urban center.

With any luck, he won't disappear on us like Baghdad blogger Salam Pax...
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