It's not "the China-virus", it's the Sixth Chinese Pandemic

opinion | 5/3/2020 | BroJoeK

[BroJoeK]

President Trump might reconsider calling Coronavirus "The Chinese Virus", because it's just the latest Chinese viral pandemic -- by my count, the sixth in the past 103 years.
This means China has been, in effect, a virus producing factory whose pandemics killed millions worldwide, and who remains a biological threat globally.

Here is my list of the Six Chinese Viral Pandemics, two of which are in dispute, both from the H1N1 virus, the first based on a Chinese report of deaths in November 1917:

Number	First Year	Name	Origin	Virus	Died	Remarks
1	1917	"Spanish Flu"	northern China	H1N1	around 35 million	disputed origins
2	1957	"Asian Flu"	Guizhou, China	H2N2	around 3 million
3	1968	"Hong Kong Flu"	Hong Kong<-- China	H3N2	around 3 million
4	2002	SARS-Covid-1	Guangdong, China	SARS-COV-1	around 1,000
5	2009	"Swine Flu"	Mexico<-- China	H1N1	around 300,000	disputed origins
6	2019	"Coronavirus"	Whu Han, China	SARS-COV-2	around 250,000++

[BroJoeK]

Labelling Coronavirus correctly as "The Sixth Chinese Viral Pandemic" would allow the world the opportunity to reflect on what China's role has been in the past, and should be in the future.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Good point.

[Big Red Badger]

Reading about the
Black Death may also
have been
“Made in China!”

[Wuli]

Four words - unsanitary food market practices.

[Maris Crane]

This is so startling.

Most virus we have had, came from China.

I really appreciate this chart. I’m printing it and using it.

[LastDayz]

#6 death rate is incorrect.... 250,000?

In china alone, it’s considerably more than that.

[KSCITYBOY]

btt

[Rurudyne]

I’m imagining a cartoon of little black spider holding an Australian flag, standing on a newspaper headline about Chinese sourced plagues, and the caption: “Sure, we want to kill you, but we stay home. You have to come to us.”

[Rurudyne]

The ChiComs may some day claim a negative death rate, one so low that people must be coming back to life.

[Grampa Dave]

Do a lot of our yearly pneumonia’s originate in China?

[Regulator]

All of them.

The HxNx virus’s are merely routine genetic iterations that cycle through the avian population and ultimately the swine population in Southern China.

The parasite cycle is not interrupted due to the unclean and uncontrolled practices of pig raising operations there.

The CDC has a team that I believe lives there and collects as many samples as they can to figure out which mutation is dominant for that year. That’s where they get the candidate flu vaccines for each season.

So the question is this...if we didn’t have mass immigration from China to our country, or Europe, would we ever see these viruses?

Probably we would, but it would be greatly attenuated, since it would be flareups in small areas.

Anyway, you can do a search on “HxNx virus” and read all about it. It’s well known in virology, and of course unmentionable in politics because God Forbid we should limit Chinese colonization.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza_A_virus_subtype_H5N1

[S.O.S121.500]

All Chinese imports need be stamped and labeled with the universal Haphazard symbol............

[BroJoeK]

"Do a lot of our yearly pneumonia’s originate in China?"

I can't say, but one epidemic I left off this list was the 2017-2018 US flu season, which killed at least 60,000 Americans.
Likely that did not start in China, but the virus was H3N2, which is the same virus as the 1968 Hong Kong flu.
So the Chinese H3N2 kicked around here since 1968, then suddenly became much more aggressive in 2017.

As of today, it still killed more Americans than the newest SARS-Coronavirus.

[BroJoeK]

"#6 death rate is incorrect.... 250,000?
In china alone, it’s considerably more than that."

Right -- we don't know what's really going on inside China, but likely the numbers are much higher than they admit.
Also, the totals are still accumulating every day, so the end number right now is anybody's guess.

[BroJoeK]

"The ChiComs may some day claim a negative death rate, one so low that people must be coming back to life."

As a boy I was told that Democrats raise up people from the dead every election day, just long enough to vote! ;-)

[Biggirl]

Two words: biological lab(s).

[BroJoeK]

"The CDC has a team that I believe lives there and collects as many samples as they can to figure out which mutation is dominant for that year.
That’s where they get the candidate flu vaccines for each season."

Wow! I had no idea.
I wonder if maybe they were kicked out once things got really nasty?

[Wuli]

Not in 1917.

[BroJoeK]

Biggirl: "Two words: biological lab(s)."

If we view the latest Coronavirus from the perspective of five previous Chinese viral pandemics, then we begin to wonder if somebody in authority in China didn't, at some point, realize that China's capabilities for producing global pandemics might be a strategic national asset?

Suppose, for example, that China was more-or-less coerced into a trade deal which didn't kowtow enough to Chinese self importance, and China wanted out, but didn't want to break the deal themselves...
So China unleashes a global viral pandemic which destroys the world's economy and makes the trade deal impossible to comply with... ?

And President Trump, who is famous for speaking his mind, is most reluctant to say anything that might ruin the trade deal he worked to hard and effectively to achieve.
Until... until it's totally obvious the deal is broken anyway, and then, the Great Deal Maker will begin work on new deal.

I think that might be just where we're at right now.
It's why he's not afraid to call it "the Chinese virus".
I'm just saying, it's the sixth Chinese virus.

[zipper]

Following biblical dietary law would have obviated much of this suffering.