If you are a fan of utopian societies, it is worth examining China's handling of the SARS epidemic. First, China denied it, To keep the denial going, it refused access to the original outbreak site by World Health Organization officials. It stopped Internet discussion. This is because Communism, as a utopian philosophy, cannot admit its failure. Second, when the denial collapsed in the face of death and disease, the government rounded up a group and labeled them as responsible for the failure, and punished them. If you fail, you destroy the utopian myth. The result of this typical Communist endeavor is almst 300 deaths and over 5000 cases of SARS.