Posted on 01/30/2020 7:02:42 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Mike Konrad wrote an informative article saying that, even if the Coronavirus is as serious as the media says, we Americans have good medical care, including antibiotics for secondary infections and steroids to control some of the worst symptoms. Now Michael Fumento, debunker extraordinaire, says that, on the available evidence, the newest virus is (a) just another virus and (b) not likely to ravage American shores.
The media is flogging the Coronavirus as if it’s the new Ebola. That’s very fertile soil because we have locked in our memories horrific images out of Africa, showing people lying dead in the streets and, in one particularly disturbing scene on some news show, a three-year-old boy shunned by everyone in his village, including his parents, until he lay down and died, alone, in the dirt.
But this isn’t Ebola. China isn’t Africa. And we, thank goodness, are neither China nor Africa. One of the blessings of life in 21st century America is that we have ways of dealing with diseases that were once deadly.
Michael Fumento blames the media for the hype and proceeds to debunk the scare on the facts. After describing a masked CNN reporter standing in total isolation, something that makes the mask pointless, Fumento explains why someone would do something so silly:
It’s called “drama,” which is badly needed, because there appears to be nothing very special about this outbreak of the 2019-nCoV or Wuhan virus. It should actually be called the DvV, or Déjà vu Virus, because we have been through these hysterias before. Over and over. Heterosexual AIDS, Ebola repeatedly, the H1N1 swine flu that was actually vastly milder than the regular flu and, especially, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in 2003.
[snip]
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
I heard about that. Ol’ Wilber Ross was quite inadvertently morbid with that dumb statement. And that’s why I now call him Wilbur Muerto.
I guess nobody told him we have a lot of Asian descent people in this country too.
“Not to kill some of its AMERICAN victims . . .”
Same article I read; I misremembered the number (note I had put in an IIRC in my original post at just that point).
It's different because nation states are dealing with it as a man made lab virus...
It's why Russia closed their borders with China. It's why China chose to quarantine whole cities. These are the actions of leaders who have serious concerns.
Yes, the common everyday flu is killing more people... so why the extra measures? What would have to exist for these National Leader's choices to make sense?
I'm guessing the Chinese did NOT spend time, effort and money to develop a flu that's not as deadly as the everyday seasonal flu. This could be a one two punch virus - with the second one released later - or it could be designed to reinfect people - each time wearing down a person's natural defenses, or the real illness could 'go off' 6 month's after all symptoms have gone away. Could be a harmless 'carrier virus' that more virulent strains could be piggy backed onto...
We don't know.
All we know so far is this is NOT the way the Chinese OR any other countries would be responding based on relatively low death rates.
How is this new outbreak different and thus potentially more dangerous from other diseases we have dealt with in the past or are dealing with now?
It's different because nation states are dealing with it as a man made lab virus...
It's why Russia closed their borders with China. It's why China chose to quarantine whole cities. These are the actions of leaders who have serious concerns.
Yes, the common everyday flu is killing more people... so why the extra measures? What would have to exist for these National Leader's choices to make sense?
I'm guessing the Chinese did NOT spend time, effort and money to develop a flu that's not as deadly as the everyday seasonal flu. This could be a one two punch virus - with the second one released later - or it could be designed to reinfect people - each time wearing down a person's natural defenses, or the real illness could 'go off' 6 month's after all symptoms have gone away. Could be a harmless 'carrier virus' that more virulent strains could be piggy backed onto...
We don't know.
All we know so far is this is NOT the way the Chinese OR any other countries would be responding based on the reported relatively low death rates.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.