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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Is she a confirmed case or still testing?
From a laymen’s perspective...the cruise ship should tell us quite a few things. This virus is suppose to be highly contagious. If you are stuck on a floating virus ship it seems to me a high percentage of everyone on it should get hit.
And the air in a large part of China is like the air in Los Angeles during the seventies.
To be fair, I posted this because of the links and a lot of people were posting about the ethnic component. There was even some research done by Chinese doctors on this aspect.
I expected to get flamed and called names. So what?
What I think?
There MAY be an ethnic component, non-Chinese and non-Asians will certainly catch this virus as they also did SARS. Some of them, unfortunately, will die.
I expect that fewer non-Chinese will die from this as it is similar to SARS - this may be due to a small ethnic factor OR the fact that the Chinese are heavy smokers with some 74% of males smoking!
It is common sense to assume that heavy smokers will be the first to succumb to any disease which affects lung function and in larger numbers.
Am I happy that this afflicts only Chinese? Of course not! Who is? This is horrible. I pray for the people of China and hope that this does not get worse.
The air in this part of China probably makes a difference
Also true. I got the flu in Beijing some years ago and it was awful. The air was full of dust and pollution - storms from the Gobi Desert were adding to the dust.
If you drove your car from the car wash to a parking lot, it would be covered in dust in short order. The air smelled like sulfur and after a while you understood why so many Chinese spit.
After breathing the air in Beijing for a while, I felt like I had to spit and I never do that!
She is being hospitalized, so I assume she tested positive.
As far as I know, the passengers are stuck in their rooms, so there isn’t any contact with other passengers
You're stating that as a fact. You don't know that.
Let's see some additional data in 2-3 weeks.
Click on my dailymail like and read the captions.
A white british couple have been taken off the ship with positive test results.
Right now, they will get the best medical care Japan has to offer. So they will likely survive.
This has nothing to do with their chances to survive in a world in which advanced medical care is simply overwhelmed.
It’s WAY too early to make any sort of racial statement about who/what this particular disease will kill.
Stuck in their rooms while the recirculating air goes from room to room. I think that’s how the virus can spread.
If the virus can mutate enough to jump between species, it won't be long before it will cross any barrier between races, which are much closer genetically.
JMO
Ventilation, food, etc. Lots of ways to spread the virus.
If I was Asian I would be scared stiff being stuck on that ship..and if I was Causasian I would be drunk on Hot Toddies daily. Gargle with them. Rinse off in them...etc.
Not joking. I would be trying everything.
Blondes have more fun.
Blue eyed people are smarter than brown eyed.
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Genome specific germs already in use?
That is what these people onboard that cruise ship are saying.
“Nothing does because race is a social construct (unless you need an organ transplant).”
While this outbreak may have nothing to do with race, race/ethnicity certainly are a factor in disease. “People of African and Mediterranean descent are found to be more susceptible to sickle-cell disease while cystic fibrosis and hemochromatosis are more common among European populations,” and Tay Sachs disease is more likely to occur among people who are Ashkenazi Jews, and Alpha-Thalassemia among Asians.
Race/ethnicity is why prospective parents may opt for genetic testing.
I have no idea what they’re doing about airconditioning & heat.
To be fair, there isn’t much information to go on yet. We are a month out at least before tentative conclusions on any of this.
You should get genetic counseling with certain ethnicities.
example:
thalessemia
If you have thalessemia You may chose to go ahead and have children with someone who also has thalessemia. You may choose to risk a life of misery for your child because it is not guaranteed it will get the dreaded transfusion curse.
But you need to go into it with full knowledge of what you are dealing with.
Or I suppose you could let the chips fall where they may as in God’s plan..but I am the type that wants to know what the heck I am risking.
“Um, would that be a ‘specious corollary’ rather than a non sequitur?”
Thanks.
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