Posted on 04/17/2020 8:03:56 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
When reports of a new virus circulating in China’s Hubei province first began to emerge, I was cautious about overreacting. I’ve reported on health long enough to know that just because a pathogen is new doesn’t necessarily mean there’s a crisis.
Of course, I quickly realized this isn’t just any virus. We’re currently battling a global pandemic unlike any we’ve seen in over a century.
But it’s also not the first modern virus we’ve faced. In the past two decades, the world battled Ebola, SARS and more than one major flu outbreak. Those left tragedies in their wake but didn’t cause the same level of societal and economic disruption that COVID-19 has. As a result, they can help us understand this new coronavirus — to capture how unique our new reality is, it helps to look back at similar outbreaks that threatened to upend society, but ultimately stopped short.
1. SARS and MERS: Deadly, but not easily spread
In late 2002, an emerging pathogen that likely spilled over from the animal world started to cause severe respiratory illness in China. Sound familiar? Through the first half of 2003, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) spread through 26 countries, infecting at least 8,098 people and killing at least 774.
If the name didn’t give it away, SARS was caused by a virus similar to the one that causes COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, but it didn’t have nearly the same impact. This is in spite of having a relatively high case fatality rate of 9.6 percent, compared to the current estimate for COVID-19: 1.4 percent.
Another respiratory illness caused by a coronavirus, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, or MERS, has an even higher case fatality rate of 34 percent. But it’s also led to fewer deaths than what we’ve already seen from COVID-19:
(Excerpt) Read more at fivethirtyeight.com ...
Well said. They can also perform trace chemical analysis.
Thanks. So which part is made up to make Trump look bad?
I needed that! Good beer humor Freep after dark!
SARS: Chinese government failed to cover it up.
MERS: No cover up.
Swine Flu: No cover up.
Ebola: Too horrifically deadly to cover up.
Novel Corona Virus: Chinese government finally covered up a outbreak, if only for two months.
Three words. Communist Chinese bio-weapon.
because they are using it to destroy the economy, destroy Trump, destroy sovereignty, push mandatory vaccines and nazi-style medical control papers, please!
The Fear-Mongering Models.
The initial numbers given to the man, based solely on computer models presented to President Trump by the gov’t bureaucrats telling him that if YOU do not do something Drastic, RIGHT NOW, look at these numbers, 2,200,000 Americans will DIE!!!
This put the man in an initially untenable position. But, his instincts kicked in. He quickly realized the fact that the proposed CURE was worse than the disease.
He then called out the “experts” proposals and set the course to recovery.
And, with EVERY SINGLE detail of Doom and Gloom computer model detail that never came close to becoming a reality he realized his Instincts were accurate and he pushed harder to reopen the greatest economic engine God Almighty ever created. The United States of America.
because they are the government and they are here to help
I believe it....
....but everyone (almost) on TV carefully say ‘it’s not a bioweapon’
They all got the talking points
This was brought up during today’s presser
The reporter told the President the US, in 2015 (Obama administration) sent millions of dollars to Wuhan for this research
We didn’t have Chinese agents influencing the media to induce panic.
The Chinese, and the Dems, WANTED to take down the US economy.
Because the engineered crisis, headed up by Wuhan and Farci, cannot go to waste.
Odinga said in 2015 we would have a pandemic in 5 years and he was right on the money..
Coincidence? Think not
China’s reliance making everything was being threatened by a change in leadership in America which was a major consumer of those products. When Americans hailed their leaders decision to make many of them in their country US. Their politburo worried. Worse yet opponents to the Chinese regime in power had its citizens protesting its policies since that change in American leadership wave the American flag and present his name when doing so. All of which presented those in power the need to destroy that leader,
Would a runaway plague created by a nation which could threaten populations of an enemy cause them to react by demanding extreme restriction of movement by its population to prevent its spread ? Thus wind up fragmenting its economy
“Because this is an election year, and Donald Trump is President.”
That’s the only correct response.
Try it again. You use an electron microscope to see a virus. Like this.
https://www.sciencealert.com/this-is-what-the-covid-19-virus-looks-like-under-electron-microscopes
Do you require the original photons from an object hit your retina?
If you say it can only can be done by the eye, can we "see" with night vision devices?
I think the internet usage made the difference. Everyone in the world instantly knows what us going on. When the dust settles, I’m betting the role of the internet, AND ITS MANIPULATION, caused the worldwide economic shutdown.
Because people under 100 know that you need an electron microscope to see something that small.
And we call it by a common name.
Stop being pedantic. It makes you look like an idiot.
Although a factor because it plays so well with a frightened-out-of-their-minds constituency, “saving lives” is not the only end-game here. Total command and control of America’s people and vast resources — the wet dream of the very many socialists/totalitarians, most of whom reside comfortably in the Democrat/Left Party — is also a factor ... if not the primary factor for the enemies within ... the enemies of liberty.
We already had the internet as far back as SARS.
And Social Media was already present during the H1N1 outbreak.
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