[Zhang Fei]

[I guess it seems like it’s been in the news for more like 6 wks.]

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It seems like it’s been running for months. Except events have moved very quickly, like one of those commercials with speeded-up voices. Every year, we get some notification about some new variant of the swine flu or some such, and we shrug. I thought the Chinese government reaction was extreme. If their numbers are accurate, it is extreme. Maybe they have hypochondriacs running the show there, and the emperor really has no clothes. Wouldn’t surprise me in the least.

[nuconvert]

” I thought the Chinese government reaction was extreme.”

I don't think it was extreme. People started getting sick the beginning of Dec, some virologists say Nov, & a few say possibly end of Oct.

I think this got out of a lab somehow - either accidentally through people working there, or through lab animals. I think it took a while before word got back to Beijing and they sat on the information waiting to see what would happen. When they realized it was getting bad & news was getting out around the world, they started the quarantine of Wuhan.

I'm not sure we'll ever know the real numbers of sick & dead in China.

[Lazamataz]

Hey bro. Are you in the thick of it over there? Can you tell us, without jeopardizing yourself, what is REALLY going on? Are the cases and death counts accurate or do you see more activity than you would expect?

And most importantly, if you were one of the bioweapon researchers, can you tell us the lab number and the BS-4 Lab location that someone dropped the test tube in?

Ok, that last question was joking. The other ones, if you can answer, I’d like to actually know.