"Ping-a-gram for Mr. Void."
Sars 2.0..cough.cough
All viruses start in China..
Somebody doing a little testing?
For two and a half weeks, I’ve been having filled, draining sinuses, coughing up phlegm from deep in my chest that intermittently has fresh blood in it, and my throat is like raw hamburger. My wife enjoys it because I can’t raise my voice, or even speak at times. I get her back by horking up a piece of lung in bed at 4 AM. LOL I just got put on Azithromycin, Prednisone, and codeine-spiked cough syrup. No fever, but my doc thinks it may be a touch of pneumonia along with the respiratory infections that are popping up like toadstools around the area. This flu season has been a bitch so far.
Chinese New Year is coming up and people travel, and families congregate, just like our Thanksgiving. It’s a great way to spread disease, unfortunately.
There’s 1.2 billion Chinese. Let me know when it hits 100M.
What is amazing is that the number of real or suspected cases in Hong Kong keeps going up. There have been suspected cases in both Taiwan and Singapore.
However, the number of cases in Wuhan remains at 59. Also, no other city in China has reported anything. Many people think that Chinese authorities are trying to hide the true numbers. Just like they did when SARS came.
I suppose Xi would call this “SARS with Chinese characteristics.”
Bet it came from all the hog disease problems they had recently.
"A new, potent form of viral pneumonia sickened 59 people in China with high fevers,
lung lesions, and difficulty breathing.
All have been quarantined, and seven are in critical condition.
WHO calls the outbreak “pneumonia of unknown etiology”(Emphais mine)
—which is epidemiologist speak for we don’t know what the hell this is."
China is not known for open communication about epidemics.
SARS was not reported to WHO for months and killed approximately 800 people in 2002 and 2003
while spreading to dozens of countries.
This week, China seems to be more readily releasing information, though China continues to be China:
The hashtag #WuhanSARS has been blocked by censors."
Two years later....