[Vermont Lt]

Pretty sure those numbers are very, very low. You don’t lock up 50 million people for the everyday flu. I believe very little of what China is reporting.

[RummyChick]

For those that don’t know...part of the spreading issue is due to idiotic leaders who had some kind of big gathering to beat a world record...after people started getting sick.

dont remember the details

[ncalburt]

This nurse in China just issued this .

She states 90,000 have been infected .
Quite a difference .

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/ushome/index.html

I hope these Commies get control .

Where is WHO hiding ?

Does the Chinese govt run the place?

Its way past the time to place a worldwide ban on China travel. If 56 million are quarantined then its time for WHO to act .

[aMorePerfectUnion]

“ I believe very little of what China is reporting.”

As a professional investment manager, I didn’t believe the numbers China claimed for their companies.

My rule became:

If it is good China news, divide by 10
If it is bad China news they admit, multiply by 10.

They love to save face.

[DoodleBob]

I don't want to be TOO tinfoil hat-like, but China isn't known for its transparency nor willingness to be honest...in that context, why would Winnie-the-Pooh announce the quarantine etc? Because CNN asked?

As I wrote elsewhere, China's 4Q2019 GDP growth rate was the lowest in 29 years. If ChIna Inc. doesn't look like a good place, then foreign direct investment etc. will be curtailed and then the capital outflows will be YUGE. THAT is a bigger threat to China than the common cold.

Now, maybe there IS something going on, a strong strain of influenza perhaps. So, taking their cue from the Obama Admin to not let a good crisis go through waste, the govt cranks up their dictatorial powers and executes quarantine etc on a level that they KNOW will freak out the world.

The World, which tends to be gullible and seems to prefer China to Russia (they are both detestable regimes), eats up the pandemic story,. And why not - we did with Ebola where about 1700 people died in the end...not the seventeen zillion everyone selling freeze-fried food wanted you to believe would die.

So, call me skeptical. And sure, I'm open to the Potential that there IS something bad in China...but I like things like evidence from, say, the Red Cross or some entity that didn't gun down their citizens in Tiananmen Square.

[grey_whiskers]