Posted on 01/25/2020 1:41:11 AM PST by Zhang Fei
Key word is “large”.
But I think the rot has spread, even to small private Universities.
Because trendy. And lib.
Thanks!
Ping to post #50 & #59
Illegal aliens kill 25 people per day in the US. That statistics is probably higher these days and should be updated.
“Biolabs in Wuhan. Something has escaped the labs, and is basically a weaponized virus.”
The chicoms know how bad this will get, hence the mass quarantine.
Yes, and their population is around 1.4 billion so the number is between 3 and 4%.
No but I suspect they will be hit much, much harder. Cities have always been brewing grounds for epidemics.
An excellent post, in all respects.
Numbers wise Pennsylvania is a bit bigger.
City sizes and rankings are funny things. Someone else had a good post on the geographic size of various cities.
The U.S. has New York, and then LA. which are a distinct first and second; Chicago and Houston are no where near as big as LA, but a good deal bigger than the next five, who are grouped within about a quarter million of each other, and then there is a fall off of another quarter million before you get to a whole back of cities that are around a million.
Toronto is bigger than Chicago, and Montreal falls between Houston and the pack the occupies fifth through ninth place.
China has a big fall off between the first two and a pack of five or six that is statistically roughly the same.
Has anyone found a way to blame the outbreak on climate change yet?
Fortunately for China and the rest of the world. This outbreak happened before their New Years.
If it happened after their New Years, it might engulfed the rest of the world.
To help with 'treatment' or to stop people from escaping?
Here is a link to a daily report being done on the worlwide spread of the disease:
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https://bnonews.com/index.php/2020/01/the-latest-coronavirus-cases/
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There are the beginning rumors that this was a lab created disease. Not likely, as 6 of the first 7 patients were vendors at the Wuhan seafood market . They sell bats there for food.
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This virus shares 80% of the SARS virus, its closest relative. It has a 96% match with a known virus in fruit bats. Snakes are not the origin.
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This virus is much weaker than SARS but has some unusual traits. It is an RNA rather than a DNA virus like smallpox. That means that it mutates very quickly. Current patients are showing a 4th generation mutation from the original patients amonth ago.
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That makes vaccines very difficult to be effective.
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The new virus also has a very high binding energy to human tissue, about 4 times higher than SARS. That means that infection is far more likely when exposed. In fact, there are about 40% new patients every day, that is extraordinary.
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As usual, vulnerable people are more likely to die. Most people will be able to quickly fight off the virus.
Ironically, reading about the 1918 flu.
When it started or arrived in China, the Emperor tried to stop it. The failure was sited as one reason the revolutions started.
[Seriously, how many deaths from Corona virus as opposed to @#$% illegal mexican drunk drivers like the one that hit me?!?]
[China has gone bat soup crazy.]
China is not a democracy. It’s basically a modern dictatorship.
[To help with ‘treatment’ or to stop people from escaping? ]
I really hope the hype is exaggerated for the virus. I think it is. The Chinese people have been suffered too long under the incompetence of the chicoms.
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