Just how bad is the new coronavirus in China and in America?

Here’s what we know – or think we know – about the new coronavirus: China has claimed that, in Wuhan, which is Ground Zero for the virus, 1,975 people have confirmed cases of coronavirus, with 324 in critical condition, and that 56 people have died. In addition, there are 2,684 suspected cases. The virus is a relative of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (or SARS), another coronavirus virus that hit in 2002. Experts are currently saying that the new virus is not as severe as the 2002 outbreak, although it may be more contagious. So far, that’s not too bad.

But here’s what we also know: China has quarantined more than 35 million people and stopped all travel in or out of Wuhan during the busy Chinese New Year season. China has also announced that it plans to build a 1,000-bed hospital within a week to treat coronavirus. Those stories either indicate that China is taking very seriously its responsibility to its people and to the world at large to stop an inconvenient and somewhat dangerous virus from spreading or it means that the Chinese government is scared and panicking.

One nurse in China says it’s the latter. The nurse, wearing heavy protective garb that hides her identity, has published a video claiming that 90,000 people have the coronavirus in Wuhan

I am here to tell the truth. At this moment, Hubei Province (including the Wuhan area), even China, 90,000 people have been infected by corona virus so far.

How much do you know about corona virus? If a person who is infected with coronavirus, if you can’t isolate someone who is infected with the virus, if you can’t make the right treatment to them,

We are only going by what the woman said. If your Chinese is good, then you can provide an accurate translation fo the rest of us. Please feel free in that regard.

Well, the PLA (many in L4 hazmat suits) has locked down the quarantine area as it is reported. Maybe they are letting people die as they run out of medical supplies, We just do not know. Various statistical/mathematical guesses as to the true situation just are as good as anybody else’s guess.

I’d be more worried about who the last person was who used the copy machine at work. Or who hand made your restaurant meal. Or who last squeezed the Charmin or smelled the grapefruit at the grocery store. Or who sat in that bus seat. Or sneezed in the elevator. Or who bumped you on the sidewalk. Or which snotty nosed kid is sharing scissors with your kid at school than how long a mask works because it doesn’t.

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