“And that’s in a contained, quarantined environment, with a limited number of potential hosts. “
That’s what you think a cruise ship is like?
“No news out of Africa or Central America, where the Chinese have a significant presence. I wonder what’s going on there.”
Nothing is. Unless you seriously think there is some outbreak being skillfully hidden in Africa of all places.
“In the end, “oh, it’s just another flu” is going to look very, very foolish. It’s NOT the flu and it has significantly different characteristics”
All this based on an apparent belief that a communist dictatorship of over a billion, mostly poor, people was going to be the LAST place this level of FUBAR could happen?
That’s what you think a cruise ship is like?
This one is being quarantined, with its passengers and crew stuck on board. Do you think everybody is going ashore, shopping, having pool parties and trivia contests in the ballrooms? Or is it more likely people are in their cabins and not running around trying to get the WHV? But they share the same air and space, same food source, same water source...
Unless you seriously think there is some outbreak being skillfully hidden in Africa of all places.
I doubt there is enough medical infrastructure in Africa, particularly in the areas the Chinese are exploiting, to even figure out what is happening this early.
All this based on an apparent belief that a communist dictatorship of over a billion, mostly poor, people was going to be the LAST place this level of FUBAR could happen?
How do you get that from *anything* I said?