Posted on 06/19/2020 8:20:43 PM PDT by Jacob Kell
Editorial correction:
"Coronavirus was present in Milan and Turin’s sewage systems as early as December, two months before the first Covid-19 cases were detected. reported to be in Italy
ALL it means is that in December there were folks in Italy who had the virus, regardless of no one reporting it then, and the infected folks deposited traces of the virus in the sewer system.
My expectation was the virus began its human journey in Wuhan sometime in October-November. Plenty of time for any folks there to travel to Italy by December. Not a big mystery.
LucyT wrote:
“Wikipedia:
The Hong Kong flu (also known as 1968 flu pandemic
was a flu pandemic whose outbreak
in 1968 and 1969 killed an estimated one to four million people globally.”
And they didn’t shut the country down back then, did they?
This is from the CDC website for 1968.
Where are you getting your numbers?
It was first noted in the United States in September 1968. The estimated number of deaths was 1 million worldwide and about 100,000 in the United States. Most excess deaths were in people 65 years and older.
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/1968-pandemic.html
nagant wrote:
If it had been spreading inside China in August, then why did it take till late December/early January to go outside the border of China?
The new timeline of August/September from the study may not be out of line with the October activity (shutdown) of the Wuhan lab.
The Wuhan military lab works in conjunction with the BSL4 Wuhan lab. The military lab may have been the one releasing the agent (covertly in/near the BSL lab) in August September without the Wuhan BSL lab knowing. They discovered it in October and shut down the lab.
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