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China's coronavirus outbreak looks worse than the Chicoms are admitting
American Thinker ^ | 01/24/2020 | Monica Showalter

Posted on 01/24/2020 7:50:25 AM PST by SeekAndFind

Communist regimes are famous for concealing inconvenient information and that appears to be the case in China with the spread of the coronavirus, a SARS-linked pneumonia-like flu that reportedly has killed 26, infected nearly a thousand, and spread to to more than a half a dozen countries beyond China, including the U.S. The Chinese have got 20 million people on lockdown in Wuhan and several cities near it, just as the Chinese New Year begins, which is the entire region's biggest holiday.

It's pretty obvious the epidemic is spreading anyway. Officials, culpably or not, closed the barn door after the horse got out.

According to the Associated Press:

China’s National Health Commission said the confirmed cases of the new coronavirus had risen to 830 with 25 deaths. The first death was also confirmed outside the central province of Hubei, where the capital, Wuhan, has been the epicenter of the outbreak. The health commission in Hebei, a northern province bordering Beijing, said an 80-year-old man died after returning from a two-month stay in Wuhan to see relatives.

The vast majority of cases have been in and around Wuhan or people with connections the city. Other cases have been confirmed in the United States, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea and Thailand. Singapore and Vietnam reported their first cases Thursday, and cases have also been confirmed in the Chinese territories of Hong Kong and Macao.

Here's the evidence that they're concealing just how bad it is:

First, whether through incompetence or design, they've seemingly ignored their obligation to set up safety measures, described below. Worse still, they have destroyed the evidence of the disease's origin by scrubbing out the market for exotic food that is the top suspect in the virus's origin, making it now practically impossible to trace,


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; coronavirus
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To: dfwgator

There you go talking sense. Where is your humanity? Panic and run. Panic and run!!


21 posted on 01/24/2020 8:14:15 AM PST by Mom MD
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To: Jimmy The Snake

Great line. We all have secret bioweapons facility..except maybe France. Just kidding. They probably have it too.


22 posted on 01/24/2020 8:15:21 AM PST by RummyChick
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To: RummyChick

and you know this how? Nature comes up with nasty bugs all on its own. And so far this appears to be a long way from the nastiest. But by all means spread panic and misinformation . That’s what the internet is for anyway.


23 posted on 01/24/2020 8:15:49 AM PST by Mom MD
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To: Mom MD

And you know it came from an animal who developed it in the wild..HOW???????

Because China tells you so???????????.....

Despite even the US warning about the research facility causing this very thing back when China put it there in Ground Zero???


24 posted on 01/24/2020 8:17:52 AM PST by RummyChick
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To: RummyChick

No, not so secret.

https://globalbiodefense.com/directory/name/national-bio-and-agro-defense-facility-nbaf/

Located about a 1 1/2 miles from Downtown Manhattan KS.
Animal and plant diseases.

https://globalbiodefense.com/directory/

(Well, maybe secret, just not on this public list!)


25 posted on 01/24/2020 8:27:18 AM PST by Pete from Shawnee Mission
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To: RummyChick

Wasn’t thinking Chinese state-sponsored terrorism ...meant someone who is a political dissident in China


26 posted on 01/24/2020 8:29:51 AM PST by Ozymandias Ghost
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To: SeekAndFind

Death rate up from 2% to 3%


27 posted on 01/24/2020 8:34:37 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Ozymandias Ghost

Sure. Could be.

I think the show The Americans had more than one plot about bioweapons.

Or it could be they were just careless or didnt have proper saftey protocols, etc.

But no way do I believe this was from eating some seafood in a market with no indication there had been a breach at that facility.

You can figure this is much more severe than what China is saying..heck, you can’t even trust out government to be 100% honest ..let alone China

Judge by their actions not their words.


28 posted on 01/24/2020 8:39:29 AM PST by RummyChick
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To: SeekAndFind

Perhaps this virus is God’s response to China’s persecution of the church.


29 posted on 01/24/2020 8:42:08 AM PST by aimhigh (THIS is His commandment . . . . 1 John 3:23)
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To: aimhigh

RE: Perhaps this virus is God’s response to China’s persecution of the church

I’ve heard people speculate this, from what happened in 9/11 to the AIDS epidemic to the Australian Bushfires, etc.

All I have to say is this — if God wanted to punish a country because of this, then even those who believe in Him are also suffering because they ALSO live in these countries.


30 posted on 01/24/2020 8:47:26 AM PST by SeekAndFind (look at Michigan, it will)
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To: SeekAndFind

With a 14 day incubation, and remaining hearty on cold surfaces for a few days, this virus is already everywhere.

We can only hope it mutates toward a tamer cold and not toward SARS because it’s likely everyone will be exposed inside of a year.

And we’ll know the extent of the danger in a mere two weeks.


31 posted on 01/24/2020 8:49:22 AM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: SeekAndFind

In Matthew Jesus tells us those that suffer calamity are no worse than those who do not. When the real judgement of God arrives there will be no doubt.


32 posted on 01/24/2020 8:51:09 AM PST by Mom MD
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To: RummyChick

“This came from a bioweapons..uh..research lab in that Province.”

Test run.


33 posted on 01/24/2020 8:51:24 AM PST by dljordan
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To: cuban leaf

“Judge it by their actions, not their words. If they are quarantining entire cities, there is something going on.”

Correct.

Their behavior is more akin to Ebola than to a cold virus.


34 posted on 01/24/2020 8:51:49 AM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: SeekAndFind

China’s new National Anthem.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy4HA3vUv2c


35 posted on 01/24/2020 8:53:39 AM PST by Kickass Conservative (Kill a Commie for your Mommy.)
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To: RummyChick

“Judge by their actions not their words.”
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Agreed ...that, and the fact that when a brand new Corona virus suddenly breaks out in Wuhan, logic points me towards the only Level 4 bioresearch lab in China located there vs. one of likely thousands of Chinese “exotic animal meat markets.”


36 posted on 01/24/2020 9:03:06 AM PST by Ozymandias Ghost
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To: Ozymandias Ghost

It is shocking to me that an MD is running around on FR saying this came from a food in a market without a thought to a bioweapons facility in the area and the reaction by the CHINESE govt.

But hey, Chinese and their bioweapons are to be trusted...lol


37 posted on 01/24/2020 9:07:50 AM PST by RummyChick
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To: RummyChick

It is customary to ping people you wish to gossip about. i asked you your proof that this came from the bioweapons plant and made no assertion where I think it came from preferring to wait for fact. I have treated severe respiratory illness outbreaks from novel viruses you heard about something on twitter. Fear monger all you want but leave me out of it.


38 posted on 01/24/2020 9:15:36 AM PST by Mom MD
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To: Ozymandias Ghost

“the next question is whether this was an accident or bioterrorism”

Or a deliberate ploy by the Chinese to kill off some of their excess population?


39 posted on 01/24/2020 9:39:42 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: Pete from Shawnee Mission

I always felt this was a bad idea...oh let’s study bovine diseases in the middle of cattle country! what could go wrong?


40 posted on 01/24/2020 9:52:52 AM PST by wheatmiller (No one thinks anymore....)
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