Posted on 01/26/2020 7:21:05 AM PST by Zhang Fei
A nurse wearing a protective suit and face mask treating the sick in Wuhan has claimed that 90,000 people have already been infected by the coronavirus in China – far more than the figure of just 1,975 issued by government officials.
Her warning from the heart of the outbreak emerged as the Chinese government faced accusations of censoring criticism of its handling of the disease in order to play down the crisis.
The outbreak of the new virus originated in China, where it has infected more than 1,970 people and killed 56, and has spread worldwide.
Speaking in video footage seen online, the unnamed woman says: ‘I’m in the area where the coronavirus started. I’m here to tell the truth. At this moment, Hubei province, including Wuhan area, even China, 90,000 people have been infected by coronavirus.’
Chinese President Xi Jinping, saying the country is facing a grave situation, held a politburo meeting on measures to fight the outbreak, state television reported on Saturday.
The country is facing a 'grave situation' where the coronavirus is “accelerating its spread,” Xi told the meeting, which took place on the Lunar New Year public holiday.
Despite China being initially praised for its transparency in managing the situation, critics have now claimed that officials are scrubbing the internet of videos that reveal the true situation.
However, the nurse’s report has been viewed almost two million times on YouTube. In the footage, she warns people not to go outside and to refrain from celebrating the Chinese New Year.
She said: ‘I would like to say that everyone who is currently watching this video should not go outside. Don’t party. Do not eat out. Once a year, we celebrate Chinese New Year. If you are safe now, you will be able to meet your family again
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Saw this yesterday and it got twisted around to 90,000 dead.
You can’t believe everything you read on Twitter.
That said, 90,000 infected is still hard to believe
OF COURSE THEY ARE!
Hoping Trump shuts down all incoming from China, which would inflictmore pain than the tariffs. Bad for Xi.
I am always skeptical of a figure drawn up by ONE INDIVIDUAL. Granted she is a nurse, but did she do a detailed survey of those infected?
Inquiring minds want to know.
State sanctioned population control.
I’ve yet to see explained how would a SINGLE NURSE might have insights into the true scale of the epidemic and the total number of infections or dead?
That's business as usual for me. Sounds like I'm safe.
[Saw this yesterday and it got twisted around to 90,000 dead.
You can’t believe everything you read on Twitter.
That said, 90,000 infected is still hard to believe]
We can be certain of one thing, and that it, that the Chinese will censor information related to this disease outbreak.
As they are a totalitarian country, the news coming out will be censored. Any official reports will likely minimize the true extent of this outbreak.
Well, that sounds absurd
[I’ve yet to see explained how would a SINGLE NURSE might have insights into the true scale of the epidemic and the total number of infections or dead?]
Many Westerners live and work in those big cities that have been hard hit and are now quarantined. Just wonder if any Caucasians have been infected or sickened. Population genetics is very important when considered susceptibility to a specific pathogen.
[Well, that sounds absurd]
Are they shutting down people, and goods/materials? Can the virus travel on an inanimate object? Anyone know?
But it fits with a quarantine on fifty million people. 50 dead does not.
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Your point is just plain commonsense. Hospitals and clinics communicate amongst themselves regularly. Especially in a crisis. Each hospital and clinic will have someone keeping stats. Not hard to call around and tally those.
There are also many reports circulating about people dropping in the streets and in their homes. Those numbers will be much harder to tally at this stage of the outbreak.
I presume the local police and EMT’s are involved in tallying some of these numbers and the central gov’t is requiring reports on illness rates and death rates.
I don’t believe the Communist Chinese gov’t is being open with the world as to the true extent of this outbreak.
I’m praying the actual numbers are in fact closer to what they are publicizing than this doctor or nurses number for the sake of those people but, I believe it is likely that this doctor/nurses numbers could be closer to the truth.
Quarantine everyone coming in from China.
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