Posted on 02/24/2020 2:14:53 PM PST by Vermont Lt
Because it’s only fair that all countries be infected equally. /s
Ping!
“All from Iran. They must have a much bigger outbreak than they are reporting.”
I would suspect Iran is underreporting to protect their tourism numbers.
Say a family in Italy were visiting the wrong part of China at the wrong time. Went home asymptomatic or what they thought was the sniffles. Four could infect a dozen or more and off you go!
Hawaii doesn’t have any test kits and frankly is one of the most likely places where a community infection would start. North Dakota or Montana don’t have much to worry about, but Hawaii has thousands of travelers from Asia coming through every day.
Well....
1.) If it could provably be traced back to us, the Chinese (and a few others) would have justification to unleash holy hell on us, up to (and including) the ol’ canned sunshine we’ve been trying to keep Iran from getting....
2.) Given how much of our commerce comes from China, and Asia in general (for better or worse...I say worse), we’d be committing economic suicide to do that. The economic impact of this bug won’t be a short-sharp-shock to be quickly recovered from with domestic production...you can’t just instantly recreate an industrial base that was frittered away over decades. And all the dollars dumped into the market by the Fed won’t restock empty shelves and nonexistent parts needed for domestic assembly.
Personally I think the Chinese got hold of the virus from overseas—that lab in Canada maybe?—and careless handling by their own lab employees let it get out before they understood what they were dealing with, let alone worked up an antidote.
Seems that are trying to be fair /s
Iran is toast .. doesn’t have Health care system as China and people crowded together in a mosque is perfect for spreading .. imagine that chuch group cluster in South Korea times 10,000
Hmmmm....that’s odd...neither article mentions exactly when these Chinese rowing teams arrived in Texas, for training.
Agreed. It’s 40 deaths, 785 cases at last count
Hawaii doesn’t have any test kits and frankly is one of the most likely places where a community infection would start.
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Don’t forget the two Chinese tourist that tested positive just after roaming the islands
Time to prepare is running out.. https://youtu.be/fLYnomkC1fA
Same.
Honest it’s just the flu..
I’ve seen pictures out if Iran, they do not have adequate PPE. At one hospital, staff was told not to wear PPE because it would scare away patients.
I know.. the panic and draconian measures make no sense.. They are lying to us about something huge.
Personally I think the Chinese got hold of the virus from overseas—that lab in Canada maybe?—and careless handling by their own lab employees let it get out before they understood what they were dealing with, let alone worked up an antidote.
Ditto
“Personally I think the Chinese got hold of the virus from overseas—that lab in Canada maybe?—and careless handling by their own lab employees let it get out before they understood what they were dealing with, let alone worked up an antidote.”
I think that’s most likely. They complete the lab in Wuhan. Their spies saw a chance to snatch some in Canada, so they brought it home. BUT, the training and the protocols are not fully developed and/or understood. So the sample breaks loose.
The theft from Canada last summer would line up perfectly with the outbreak - quietly making the rounds for a few months until breaking loose in Wuhan in November.
As to malicious intentions - who knows? If nothing else, the Chinese do have an interest in better understanding these viruses, considering how they’ve been hammered by SARS, Bird Flu, Swine Flu, etc. I don’t blame them for wanting to get that stuff under control...but they just weren’t careful enough.
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