The saga continues.
I’m going to assume that it cannot be contained, and will break out in the USA through some border vector eventually. How lethal it really is is the real world 100 dollar question.
I believe as much as any dead person
Critical politically incorrect question still not answered. Are non Chinese Westerners who live and work in Wusan becoming infected and dying at the same rate as the endemic genetic Chinese? BTW predict that the summer Olympics in Japan will be cancelled.
Likely in Hawaii now.
British scientist leading coronavirus fight states 400K deaths in UK not absurd. Have not read those numbers before. Per Daily Mail....
1,526 fatalities.
Get back to me when they open up the homes they have shuttered closed.
Recovered Ontario person still testing ‘positive’.
That you can be infected and spread the virus for more than two weeks before showing any symptoms at all makes this the holy grail of biological weapons. Oops. Wasn’t supposed to get utilized yet, and certainly not on the home-field.
these stupid Chicoms have unleashed a bio-bug on the world. The entire country should be quarantined, economics be damned.
I highly recommend the War Room: Pandemic interviews. Steve Bannon is having some of the leading doctors/scientists on, talking about the virus, its spread, what is really happening in China, how it affects our national security, etc. I personally think it’s the best info available, coming from folks who work in the field (virus hunters, etc.), not the Fake News reporter/reporterettes spinning a narrative. Episode 17 was today.
CORONAVIRUS UPDATE: Fighting Outbreak, China Urged Open Borders. Even Allies Are Resisting.
In Beijing and elsewhere, Chinese diplomats have pitched the crisis as a test of friendship, calling on foreign governments not to suspend travel links with China or to evacuate their citizens—measures Beijing decries as unnecessary, fear-inducing and unfriendly.
“True friendship emerges in times of adversity,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying has repeated in recent weeks.
It generally hasn’t worked. Three of the biggest U.S. airlines— American Airlines, Delta Air Lines and United Airlines—have suspended passenger flights between the two countries, as have the national carriers of France, Britain, Egypt, Qatar and Vietnam, among others. More than a dozen countries have slapped entry restrictions on Chinese nationals or people who have recently been in China. . . .
Despite Beijing’s pleas, a number of countries—including governments that China counts as close partners—have put domestic concerns first.
North Korea, whose isolated government counts Beijing as a vital ally, was the first country to seal its border with China in January. Russia, another friend, closed land crossings with China and suspended visa-free travel between the two countries.
China has influence, but it fades when the chips are down.
Officials: No ‘Plan B’ for Tokyo Olympics amid coronavirus outbreak in China.
Exclusive: Senior China Diplomat Concedes Challenge of Coronavirus, Slams ‘Overreaction.’
Wall Street slips as coronavirus dampens optimism.
Consumer sentiment rises in February even amid the coronavirus outbreak.
First US coronavirus recuperating at home after receiving experimental anti-viral treatment.
Taxi driver diagnosed with coronavirus after driving Chinese tourists.
WHO team headed to China as coronavirus cases climb.
Jim Cramer hears globetrotting business leaders are ‘personally worried’ about coronavirus exposure.
Wall St Journal reporting US State Dept will be evacuating US citizens from Diamond Princess ship.
Wall St Journal reporting US State Dept will be evacuating US citizens from Diamond Princess ship.
Just noticed they are “rounding up” the cases to the nearest 00 these days.
“The burden of Nineveh” - Nahum
So when it comes right down to it, when you are in an area where this thing is totally out of hand, the masks may be doing the most good on “healthy” people with no symptoms because it’s the asymptomatic carriers that are the impossible to find threat. So cover their mouth and nose to help keep them from breathing out as much airborn virus.
But the only way to do that is to make all the apparently healthy people wear masks too.
And of course, the ones with symptoms should absolutely be wearing the masks to limit spread.
But to do any good, it really has to be EVERYONE.
Which explains why China has been so draconian hell on wheels about forcing everyone to wear a mask since day one.
So let me put on my tinfoil hat for a sec. This all implies China KNEW, not suspected it was merely airborn, but KNEW it was BOTH airborn AND had asymptomatic spread from at least the time they told EVERYONE to wear a mask when outside.
You can say telling everyone to put on a mask is a good idea anyway, but telling 50+ million people they must wear masks on pain of arrest is out there. You have to have a reason for that.
I can’t help but feel that this Wuhan thingy is all on purpose and the globalists/evil cabal/deep state has something to do with it...
France: First carnivorous patient outside Asia dies in north Paris (Reuters & W.Post)