Posted on 01/23/2020 10:11:29 AM PST by davikkm
The mainstream media in the western world isn’t telling you that Chinese hospitals are being absolutely overwhelmed by the number of sick people showing up for treatment. So the truth is that the official numbers that the Chinese government is putting out are almost meaningless at this point because hordes of sick people are being turned away from the hospitals because there is no room for them. On Wednesday, Chinese officials took the unprecedented step of attempting to quarantine the entire city of Wuhan, but what good is that going to do if most of the sick people are turned away by the hospitals and sent back to circulate among the general population? There are about 11 million people living in Wuhan, and there will only be about 2,000 hospital beds available for those that have caught this mysterious new coronavirus. And considering the fact that officials are now admitting that this virus is being spread through “respiratory transmission”, it looks like this could become a complete and utter public health nightmare very rapidly.
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Stories going around the figure of infected in Wuhan has hit 10,000 and rising.
I’m taking this with a huge grain of salt.
The problem is that given the population density of China (20% of the human population on Earth!), any fast-infecting virus is going to spread in a blink of a eye—yikes!
We heard all of this when it was SARS.
While the numbers are higher than reported I do not trust blog sites.
Quarantine now is like slamming the barn door shut after the horses have left.
People evidently have spread out all over the world from that city.
All hail diversity and inclusion.
I wonder how many of these people actually have the corona-virus, and how many are panicking with early cold/flu symptoms. A certain level of health hysteria is entirely understandable given the circumstances and the publicity.
Is there a reason virtually all of these viruses originate in Asia?
In many places in the world a “hospital” is a bed and one visit a day from a “doctor” if you are lucky.
Yes. See reply #10. That is part of it.
Me too.
I did updates on a similar outbreak on this thread. Reality turned out to be way different than projections. The updates are the last posts on the thread.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3210773/posts
Bad news sells papers.
If it bleeds, it leads.
Especially once they find a way to blame it on Trump.
Admittedly, I’ve watched enough of a certain show about “wars over information” to really take a deep breath before getting concerned because most of the time, it is media hype.
I just wish China was more open and free so that real numbers could be had, so that every yahoo online isn’t tossing inflated numbers, causing a flipping panic.
The article states 2,000 hospital beds in a city of 11 million.
If you’re lucky enough to be one of the 2,000 then you get checked once a day by a government trained doctor.
Otherwise you’re sent home and rely on traditional home remedies until you expire.
Ain’t government healthcare grand!
No wonder the death rate is 2%. I wonder how many die of the common cold.
I wish scientists would forget climate change and study why the common cold decades ago lasted a few days and today it seems to last weeks.
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