[redshawk]

Man...yesterday I thought the death toll was 120? Now 200 and counting?

[Steely Tom]

The first cases were noted in early December, in Wuhan. Around 40 days passed before any reports became public.

[11th_VA]

hiding death toll by burying bodies

What do you think is buried under those new hospitals ?

[cdcdawg]

China is acting like it’s a much bigger problem than 213 dead people in a metropolitan area of 11 million. Who in the Chinese bureaucracy would want to deliver honest bad news? Do they even know, one way or the other?

[headstamp 2]

Henninger had a great interview with Varney yesterday regarding this subject discussing how completely irresponsible China is. They are constantly creating worldwide public health problems by their obfuscation.

A horrendous record for a country supposedly aspiring to be a first world nation but are really an organized crime syndicate.

[janetjanet998]

Anyone remember this video I posted on January 1st...?

Wuhan flight, some people were suffering from infectious diseases. All people in the plane were forbidden to go out.

https://mobile.twitter.com/IsChinar/status/1223116887929716736

[null and void]

Yes, they were a little slow.

Would we have acted as swiftly and decisively?

Discuss, show your work...

Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.

[entropy12]

213 people dead from the virus while 1000 times more dead the standard flu and other causes? Why is 0.1% deaths receiving so much attention? Sure the virus is new mutation and people have not developed immunity from lack of exposure before so it can spread faster than common cold. But the death rate is only about 2% for those infected with this corona-virus.

And in the good ole USA, only 5 have been infected (all had connection to city of Wuhan in China) while 20 million Americans come down with the standard flu every year. Size does matter!

[GulfMan]

The CDC is also hush hush, what of the US patients? Are they barely sick, pretty sick, ICU sick? Nothing, not a peep

[Reily]

The Hong Kong crisis, economic dislocations, other internal stresses, now the mishandling of coronavirus outbreak China’s cultural consciousness might conclude the government has lost the “mandate of heaven”! Historically when that notion is widespread Chinese governments collapse & face revolution.

It could get interesting!

[PIF]

” ... hiding a higher death toll by cremating bodies ...”

That’s what they did in the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre to hide the true death toll ... get bulldozes and other tracked vehicles to run over the bodies, push pulp into piles, set on fire, fire hose the burned debris down the sewer ... see all gone.