Posted on 03/04/2020 6:40:52 AM PST by dangus
Way back, in January, BEFORE Xi's announcements, I noted that the novel Coronavirus (nCov) had reached an inflection point and would soon be declining. I had even waited a few days to confirm the trend. Over the last few days, there have been only 10 official cases outside Wuhan province, and only a few hundred each day inside Wuhan. The great Chinese lie wasn't that nCov wasn't destroying civilization; it was that it wasn't nearly as contagious as the Chinese were letting on.
We can see that now in South Korea and Italy. There's less data, and it's less centralized, so the data is "noisier" than in China. But it seems that on March 3 and March 4, Korea had fewer cases (1,286) than on February 29 and March 1 (1,399). And I may be jumping the gun in Italy, but there were fewer cases on March 2 and 3 (342 and 466) than on March 1 (566).
There are no great factories of incineration. To all the people who think that sulfur compounds in air pollution means burning bodies, coal and oil also have sulfur. So if Chinese cities quit importing gas and fall back on coal and oil, there's your sulfur.
So how did it spread through the Diamond Princess? Well, I'm not privy to any inside information, but coronaviruses are colds. Colds take a long while before they cause symptoms. My guess is that nCov had swept through the ship BEFORE the quarantine.
We're seeing this in Washington state. The virus has been there for six weeks, running unchecked, and only now, we're finding out about it... and in nursing homes.
nCov is a serious matter. Viruses swap technology, and we now have something I've feared since I was a college student in the 1990s: a cold virus has some AIDS technology. And 2% of the people who contract this virus will die. (Or maybe less... it strikes smokers hard.) We learned a LOT of lessons from real-world drills. But when you read about it sweeping America, remain calm folks.
It's plausible. As a bio-weapon it's effects aren't overwhelming, if it was still in development.
Because I have a retirement account. :-)
Mine was mockery of the pearl clutching posters on other threads.
It was poorly written by me
WOW! Already proven correct about this!
>> So how did it spread through the Diamond Princess? Well, I’m not privy to any inside information, but coronaviruses are colds. Colds take a long while before they cause symptoms. My guess is that nCov had swept through the ship BEFORE the quarantine. <<
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3821684/posts?page=1
In all fairness, that’s hardly an unusual scene in New York.
I heard the the Norks simply shoot ya on the spot! Now how’s that for the cure!
Okay I will take a breath and settle down. Last week I had myself convinced the Chinese did this based on that article (I can no longer find) where the Chinese said they intend to try to stop Trump from being elected. Apparently they are putting some effort to turn Florida blue?
Anyways as you said they wouldn’t want to destroy their own economy to do it (I’m sure they could care less about the actual lives of Chinese citizens)
Y2K Pollyanna and doomer.
Yeah...
“And I may be jumping the gun in Italy, “ — Me in the OP.
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