China mystery illness: Why US Senators want a travel ban on China? | WION Pulse
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Cases of respiratory illnesses have been surging in northern China, particularly among children, sparking speculation of a new pandemic threat four years after COVID-19 first emerged in the country. The global concern escalated when the World Health Organization (WHO) requested additional information from China. Watch this story to know why five republican senators led by Marco Rubio are asking President Joe Biden to ban travel between the United States and China.
"The next severe pandemic will not only cause great illness and loss of life but could also trigger major cascading economic and societal consequences that could contribute greatly to global impact and suffering."
The mortality rate for the last "cases are surging" was estimated to have been 3.4% per year, but after three full years the actual mortality rate according to only officially recognized numbers was 0.1% over the entire period.
Surging.
Northern China as in Beijing area?
Or provinces near Mongolia, Russia, and the Stans?
Because the one area is poor (and full of some ethnic groups the Chinese would not be sad to lose) and the other not so much.
Sadly, this isn’t the middle ages... Banning travel between states isn’t an option. That’s one thing that Covid did prove. Banning travel (and they did in Australia) won’t save you... The pied piper eventually plays his tune. If there is some sort of respiratory disease out there, it will spread and those who are susceptible will get it.
The spread of the Spanish flu was a result of boat travel... So in an age of jet travel by commercial, passenger and private jets... The idea that you can contain a disease by banning travel is pure nonsense.
Find treatments to deal with the disease... We deal with pneumonia, flu and other respiratory disease yearly... Take the treatments for those diseases and apply it to this new respiratory disease... That’s the smartest way to confront it.
And don’t lockdown the healthy to save those who will catch and possibly die from this disease. That’s a sure way to destroy our economy and ruin our society... Another lesson learned from the insane panic related to Covid.
The Spanish flu killed 3 to 5% of the worlds population... On the high end that’s about 400 million people in todays population of 8 billion. As bad as it was we survived it.
The idea that it won’t eventually happen again is foolishness... It will and when it does we will know it and dealing with it by destroying our society and economy is not the answer.