...and when you don’t have enough medical personnel to attend to the sick and try to stop the pandemic, why would you waste time administering a NAT test to a dead body?
It’s starting to look like Wuhan is approaching complete collapse. Not enough hospital beds. Not enough medical personnel. Not enough transportation to get the sick to the hospitals. Nobody working or allowed outside. Store shelves empty. Who is manning the water works and sewage plants?
This is might scary if an 11 million person metropolis can go to complete collapse in less than five weeks.
Of course, many here on FR and in the US have posited this for many years. The novel “One Second After” chronicled societal collapse after an EMP event. Wuhan seems to be somewhat playing out the scenario in One Second After.
If one night in Wuhan, the lights just go out, you will see some serious SHTF.
I did not say or infer that a dead body should be tested. That is nuts.
I stated that the stats would be lower if they were unable to administer the NAT test. And past that, I’ve read that in some cases outside of China they had to administer the test several times before a positive result was found in a suspect case.