Posted on 02/08/2020 8:12:17 AM PST by Bon mots
At the time of writing, 170 people have died of the Wuhan Coronavirus [Coronavirus Live Updates: Death Toll Rises, as Foreigners are Evacuated, New York Times, January 30, 2020], though that number is bound to have increased by the time this article is published.
All of these deaths have been in China.
The disease has spread to at least 16 other countries, including Canada, the USA, France, Germany, Finland, Australia, India, Sri Lanka, the United Arab Emirates, and a number of East Asian countries [This is where Wuhan coronavirus cases have been confirmed worldwide, by Eric Cheung, CNN, January 30, 2020]. The Main Stream Media, in Western countries, is stoking panic with rolling news coverage on the spread of the possibly Apocalyptic new plague [Corona Virus Outbreak, by Matthew Weaver et al., The Guardian, January 30, 2020]. But what nobody is openly reporting: the race of the victims. They appear to be all Asians—specifically, the yellow race formerly known (accurately but now Politically Incorrectly) as “Oriental.”
Thus two Coronavirus cases were just confirmed in the U.K. [Coronavirus: UK patient is University of York student, BBC.com, February 1, 2020], But if you read the article, both turn out to be “Chinese nationals.” Similarly a recent headline of The Helsinki Times read “First case of Wuhan Corona virus confirmed in Finland,” [January 29, 2020]. But it turns out to be a Chinese tourist in Lapland, not a Finn.
In fact, as far as I can tell, all of the confirmed cases have been of Chinese people. According to Sri Lankan radio, the case in Sri Lanka was a “Chinese tourist” [Sri Lanka suspends visa on arrival for Chinese travellers after confirmed case of Corona virus, News On Air, January 28, 2020]. So are the cases in France and the one in the United Arab Emirates [Coronavirus is spreading as FIVE people in France are now confirmed to have the illness and Chinese traveller from Wuhan is quarantined in Finland, by Sam Blanchard, Mail Online, January 29, 2020].
If it is true that only East Asians are dying of, or even catching, Corona, that would be consistent with long-established race differences in the susceptibility to such viruses. This has been explored in a fascinating study, by a group of Chinese researchers led by C. L. Chen of Soochow University, entitled: Ethnic differences in susceptibilities to A(H1N1) flu [African Journal of Biotechnology, 2009].
The authors begin by noting that, from an evolutionary perspective, there is every reason to expect there to be ethnic or race differences in the susceptibility to different pathogens. Races—or, as they call them, “ethnic groups”—are breeding populations, long-separated, usually by geography, who are, therefore, genetic clusters adapted to different ecologies. Because they were exposed to different pathogens in prehistory, there are very likely to be race differences in susceptibility to the pathogens and in how well the immune system can fight them.
Many infectious diseases jumped the species barrier from animals to humans due to our close contact with animals while pursuing agriculture. For this reason, groups that never innovated agriculture, or who only innovated it in a limited form or only relatively recently took it up, can be decimated by flu-like viruses.
Thus the authors observe that the Spanish Flu Pandemic of 1918 was three to 70 times more deadly to “natives” in Canada and the USA, as well as to the reindeer herding Saami people in Sweden and Norway, than it was to the rest of these countries’ populations. This is because most white and black people are descended from those who have long practiced farming. The authors add that the Swine Flu Pandemic of 2009 was five times more deadly to Maori people than it was to other New Zealanders.
The Corona Virus is closely related to SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) [Coronavirus vs. SARS: Health experts on the key differences between the two outbreaks, by Sam Meredith, CNBC, January 28, 2020], of which there was a major outbreak in 2003, which also began in China in 2002.
According to Wikipedia (which is, presumably, politically neutral on such numbers), a total of 774 people died across 29 countries. This amounted to almost 10% of those who caught it. Potentially in line with the findings of the Chinese researchers, the mortality rate for SARS in Europe was almost nil. Minuscule numbers of people caught it and only one of them died – in France (where there were an atypically high 7 cases).
By contrast, in Hong Kong the mortality rate from SARS was 17%. In Taiwan, it was 10%. In Canada, it was 17%, but it seems pretty obvious that they were all “Chinese Canadians,” what with there being so many Chinese people in Canada and documented attempts made to “help” them (specifically) deal with the virus [see Beyond SARS: ethnic community organization’s role in public health—a Toronto experience, By W. Dong, Promotion and Education, 2008].
In Singapore, 13% of those who caught SARS died out of 238 cases. Other countries had very small numbers of cases or, as with Vietnam, their medical access would have been sub-optimal, rendering it difficult to make comparisons.
But essentially, it can be said the SARS was an East Asian disease which, like Corona, can be traced to bats. SARS didn’t severely impact the rest of the world, despite people definitely catching it. It disproportionally killed East Asians. See SARS: The Immigration Dimension II, by Walter Pringle, VDARE.com, April 24, 2003.
This effect was so pronounced that, Wikipedia reports, “Many Chinese believed that the SARS virus could be a biological weapon manufactured by the United States, which perceived China as a potential threat.” (Ironically, the financial website ZeroHedge has just been banned by Twitter for reporting speculation that the Corona virus was developed during Chinese research into bioweapons—a ban that ZeroHedge attributes in a scathing post to U.S. capitalists’ notorious desire to appease China).
The difference between the two strains: the Corona virus, according to experts, is nothing like as deadly as SARS. Its mortality rate appears to be about 2% . It‘s mainly taking people with serious pre-existing health conditions [Coronavirus vs. SARS: Health experts on the key differences between the two outbreaks, by Sam Meredith, CNBC, January 28, 2020].
So if I wanted to tempt fate, then I’d write the following:
The Corona virus is a virus that, for whatever reason, East Asians are susceptible to but other races are not, just like SARS. None of our people are going to succumb to this condition. The MSM’s constant hyping is just a way of making people panic, because people are more susceptible to being indoctrinated when they panic. By not reporting the race of those who have caught this disease in Europe, unnecessary panic is being fomented among Europeans…so that they can be more easily inculcated with the message than “race differences don’t exist, because race is a social construct.”
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It’s effecting everyone equally, this hope that it won’t effect Caucasians is just that, hope, but its unfounded now. There are non Asians coming down with it too.
No flame, but link please, thanks.
Somehow I doubt anyone has come up with a “race specific” virus. It is well known that viruses do what is called “attenuate” so I would expect it to “cool down” as it spreads. My first impulse was “if this makes it to India we are cooked” but throwing this thing into India may be just what the world needs. It would suck to be Indian but the virus would get a lot more passages there more rapidly than just about anywhere.
I have nothing against East Asians, but by simply posting this some will think I'm a racist. It's important information and people should know it.
There was an English guy who caught the Corona Virus in China and he drank hot whisky and got better - that was it.
there are a bunch of us here watching the ethnicity of this.
Still not seeing CONFIRMED cases that are not Asian/Indian other than Hot Toddy man from Wales that is in Wuhan. I am skeptical of him. Seems like he wanted publicity.
There is a German person who got it from a Chinese associate. But to say he is not Chinese is merely guessing. He may or may not be Asian
I think it may turn out that any caucasian has a better chance of recovering than an Asian who gets it.
What we do know is that China is acting like they let loose a bioweapon. And US officials boarding planes look like they are wondering, too, by the gear they were wearing.
Check my link
Chines have highest amount of smokers....
I thought that might be true. Thanks for the statistic.
Probably the early 2000s I read a right wing article that stated the Chinese live person human organ harvesting industry sold hearts and other organs with the guarantee that the person they took it from was a nonsmoker. Before he could write the next line I said to myself-—Honestly, how many Chinese have you ever seen who are nonsmokers? That was the next line.
Note: When Time gushed over the recently dead Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping in 1997 they cropped the cover portrait to take out the lighted cigarette in his hand.
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= = = = = = = = = = Also, this. Single Mutation Could Significantly Enhance Wuhan Coronavirus
By AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MICROBIOLOGY FEBRUARY 2, 2020
Decade-long structural studies by Fang Li of the University of Minnesota, et al. have shown how the SARS virus (SARS-CoV) interacts with animal and human hosts in order to infect them.
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“Alarmingly, our data predict that a single mutation [at a specific spot in the genome] could significantly enhance [the Wuhan coronavirus’s] ability to bind with human ACE2,” the investigators write. For this reason, Wuhan coronavirus evolution in patients should be closely monitored for the emergence of novel mutations at the 501 position in its genome, and to a lesser extent, the 494 position, in order to predict the possibility of a more serious outbreak than has been seen so far. {emphasis mine.}
Interesting. Thanks for posting.
https://www.liquisearch.com/biosafety_level/list_of_bsl-4_facilities
Beware the military, germ warfare complexes.
Lots of “scientists” working on these matters.
Um, would that be a 'specious corollary' rather than a non sequitur?
It has nothing to do with race. Nothing does because race is a social construct (unless you need an organ transplant). The Chinese are susceptible because they don’t have our Constitution.
There was an English guy who caught the Corona Virus in China and he drank hot whisky and got better - that was it.
Yes...I mentioned Toddy guy in my reply, to you.
Studies have been done on the lungs of Asian males. Different receptors, I believe. There was a thread about it, posted here, the other day.
There is some supposition that China is using this as a pretext to do their typical Commie thing...like round up dissidents.
I am sure they are doing it.
But I also think this is an extreme reaction to something that just happened in nature.
It seems likely other races will get this..but perhaps they can cure themselves like Hot Toddy man with the help of his inhaler and whisky.
One new death in WuHan is an Anglo American. There are two few cases outside China so far to make any observations. SARS was far more widespread than the official numbers would indicate. I remember an American doctor made a study of a village in Turkey that was supposedly hard hit with 5 or 6 deaths out of some twoo digit number of cases. The doctor tested all the people in the village and found that everyone had the antibodies. Most reported they had had sniffles or a bit of a cough for a few days.
Yeah, I expect some rotten tomatoes.
The fact that some 74% of Chinese men smoke probably has a lot to do with it too. This compared to less than 18% of all Americans and less than 15% of Australians, etc.
And a non Asian woman was just taken off a ship to be hospitalized yesterday while her non Asian husband had to remain onboard.
Wow. There are a lot of Chinese in China.
This virus has not gotten far enough away from China to make such distinctions. Let’s see what it’s like in a month.
Not “calling you a racist.” It is something that is normal to assume. But it’s just too early.
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