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HERE IS THE ORIGINAL ARTICLE BY MICHAEL FUMENTO.

TITLE: Don’t buy the media hype over the new China virus

Here is the key quote:

The best remedy for all epidemic hysteria is perspective. 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?

Wuhan is repeatedly labeled “deadly” — but so is every other virus most people know about. But especially deadly? Nearly 600 cases have been confirmed with at least 17 reported deaths.

An infected American is reportedly doing well. It’s probably true that the death toll is understated, but it’s guaranteed the infection number is. Probably as with, say, flu, the vast majority of those infected have such slight symptoms, they don’t seek medical attention.

For that reason, a comparison to the US flu death rate is also very difficult. As a share of hospitalizations, the regular flu death rate is 8.5 percent to 17 percent, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — considerably higher than for Wuhan. But counting all estimated illnesses, reported and estimated, it’s much lower.

What we can say for sure is that Wuhan will be a lot worse in China, simply because health care there is vastly inferior. It appears that, like flu, Wuhan usually kills through often treatable secondary infections. Well, treatable in the West. You’d be surprised at how many potentially deadly diseases (malaria, TB) Americans get that wreak havoc in much of the world but kill essentially none of us.

It also appears those most likely to die of Wuhan virus fit the same profile as flu fatalities: people over 65, those with compromised immune systems and those with serious pre-existing conditions. Two of the 17 Wuhan dead were 89-year-olds with pre-existing conditions; the youngest was 48 and suffering from diabetes and a stroke.

Contagiousness is highly important, of course. But so far, there is no evidence that Wuhan, first reported more than three weeks ago, is more contagious than influenza or spreads differently.

Those are the important factors; everything else is noise and tinfoil-hat paranoia.

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 relatively low death rates.