Posted on 01/25/2020 1:41:11 AM PST by Zhang Fei
I keep saying this.
“Never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity”
The government of China is not trying to reduce its population by a plague - which is clearly your implied assertion.
IF THIS WERE A RELEASED BIOLOGICAL WARFARE AGENT IT WOULD HAVE A HIGHER MORTALITY RATE THAN 4% AND TAKE LESS THAN 2 OR 3 WEEKS TO KILL ITS VICTIMS!!!!!!
This was caused by poor hygiene and eating things that should not be eaten.
I’ve lived in Wuhan. It’s a dirty industrial city on the shores of a polluted river. I can easily imagine a virus mutating there.
Hey Fai,
I never “implied” the escaped weaponized virus devastating your country’s city Wuhan was let loose deliberately. No, not at all. By carelessness, or by somebody trying to sell it to somebody or by some other form of heedlessness, carelessness or greed. And the fact that your twisted, hideous government is even admitting to 40 plus deaths (despite needing to build two hospitals in two days and requisitioning 10,000 beds) means only one thing—the menace from this virus is much much worse than what has been admitted. Now your twisted government had banned individual automobiles, denying people the means to escape and basically admitting everyone in Wuhan will be locked in with the virus as it works its devastation.
Someone posted this link yesterday. Thought I would pass it along. Pretty interesting.
https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6
Not a good idea to let a virus decide who stays and who goes.
Urban Death Zones will be hardest hit. NYC and LA may very well be changed demographically for a generation in the coming weeks.
I would suggest that rather than New York, San Francisco will be the hardest hit. I believe that San Francisco has more incoming traffic from China than New York and La either one.
Further, New York does not have the concentrations of tent and street dwellers
I would think that India should be on very high alert and taking every possible precaution
China has gone bat soup crazy.
A quarantine of the city will get ugly fast. The worst case is very bad... however now that it's happened we can pray that it will blow over quickly, somehow...
The angle about Xi and the digital currency/social credit is intriguing and unfortunate...
...come to think of it, many Universities which have large Chinese student populations.
https://3g.dxy.cn/newh5/view/pneumonia
It's a Chinese health website that updates, essentially, real time.
In the realm of really bad news, it jumped. Beijing reported five (5) new cases at 17:00 1/25/2020. Two (2) of those had no contact history in Hubei (Wuhan is the the province capital)
The R-0 (rate of infection per infected), through multiple sources is being locked down at 2.5. For every person infected that person will, on average, infect 2.5 persons. The typical flu has an R-0 of 1.4, Spanish Flu had an R-0 of 1.6. Spanish Influenza killed 1% of the global population, this thing has an expected mortality rate two to three times that while being 50% more virulent.
All one need to is stay away from libtards and you’re safe.
What’s a couple of zeroes between friends?
Don’t almost ALL large Universities have significant Chinese student populations?
People in BOTH of these urban areas....and, ALL urban areas, are able to freely move about the country.
It woouldn’t just affect those areas.
Densely populated urban areas are naturally going to have a much higher rate of transmission.
Densely populated urban areas are naturally going to have a much higher rate of transmission.
Agree....my point was....it won’t just stay in those areas.
I think that is about right. Pennsylvania would be another good comparison, both numbers-wise and because it contains our sixth-largest city.
China is not my country. I just lived there. My wife is from Shanghai. I lived in Hong Kong for many years
So fine, it isn’t that they purposely released the pathogen but that they are just too incompetent to keep it under wraps. If you want to believe that I can’t stop you. But, the pathogen was caused by poor hygiene and sanitation.
I agree with people that say this situation has been downplayed by the PRC government. The virus has probably affected many more than is being reported and killed many more than is being reported. In fact, I KNOW from friends in Wuhan that this is the case. All the more reason to keep the pathogen contained locally.
Do the math. 1.4 billion people live in China. If this disease is easily communicable and nobody has immunity then even a fairly low mortality rate of 4% that equals 56 million dead. Because almost everyone will get the disease. That is assuming the mortality rate is actually 4%.
The PRC GOVERNMENT DESERVES A LOT OF CRITICISM FOR A LOT OF THINGS. This is not one of them. Imposing a quarantine to control the spread of an infectious disease that could kill millions of people is not one of them. You really don’t want people who have been infected with a potentially deadly pathogen but who are not yet symptomatic fleeing the area. Telling people to stay home. Restricting travel. Go out as little as possible. Wear a mask. Go to the hospital if you are sick and don’t leave town are NORMAL quarantine measures. So yeah, keeping potentially infected people from fleeing, by force if necessary, is a good thing. You should be glad the PRC government is doing it.
If this pathogen had arisen in LA or NYC you can bet that the US government would have taken similar measures. They would be hateful monsters if they didn’t. It is standard practice in such cases. Look at how Ebola is outbreaks in Africa are handled. They do the same thing.
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