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 Asiansspecifically, 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. Racesor, as they call them, ethnic groupsare 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 organizations role in public healtha 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 didnt 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 bioweaponsa 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% . Its 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 Id 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 MSMs 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 dont exist, because race is a social construct.
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Stop asking so many questions, racism doesn’t need an explanation. Everyone knows that.
btw, if there are any Ashkenazi Jews here.. you are on the short list to qualify for free genetic counseling as it relates to breast cancer.
Can’t remember if you need one additional factor or if that ethnicity is enough.
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So if we non-Asians stick to hot toddies, we should be all set. I may be ready to up my prepper game!
Correct.
Once this bug takes off, it won’t matter.
Can’t say that I’ve ever come across a pangolin, even in my somewhat limited zoo visits.
So there’s even less chance in the last few months that I’ve ever snuggled with one, consumed it, or be administered a Chinese “medicine” made from its scales.
(Pangolin: scaled anteater. A current virus theory: bat => pangolin => human)
Well, now that I threw this skunk over the wall, it's fun to see the commotion...
Time will tell. Hopefully, this can be brought under control and suffering will be limited. I truly wish the best for the people of China.
It should be noted that like SARS, this likely came from the habit eating exotic wildlife. A bat or pangolin... time will tell. (Some believe SARS came from a type of Civet Cat)
I read an article during the SARS outbreak about the wild meat market in China. It seems they slaughter all types of wild animals there and at the end of the day, power-wash the sidewalks which atomizes the biological matter into breathable aerosols - a possible origin.
My mom always said, Boys with blue eyes are liars.
I dont know what caused that...but she must have gotten a good line from some blonde, blue eyed boy from Vermont.
“Asian males. Different receptors”
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There are two basic issues that control lethality.
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1. Susceptibility, how available are certain people to this virus?
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2. Impairment, when people get sick, how good are their bodies at getting better?
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Everyone though, can get sick.
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Although the sample size is very small for now, researchers have noticed that certain kinds of lung cells are “gateways” for the virus.
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Those small minority (about 3%) of lung cells are 3-4 times more prevalent in Asian males than they are in Asian females or male/female whites and blacks. There may be a linkage to blood pressure meds also.
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Pack those Asian males together, with some of them being very mobile, bingo, epidemic and possible pandemic.
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Impairment of self-healing is an issue. Smoking doesn’t appear to be a major factor. Age is, and heart/lung background problems are present in nearly all deaths.
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The virus is easily killed outside the host, particularly by air temperature or antiseptic chemicals. Summer is coming. Fumigation is happening.
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Once the available population is either healed or dead, the virus will disappear. Although it is showing a remarkable ability to mutate.
I was thinking the same thing. They are sealed in a giant floating can with others that have been exposed and we don't know how a sealed AC system will affect the spread.
Could be a giant floating incubator for all we know.
“Cant say that Ive ever come across a pangolin, even in my somewhat limited zoo visits.”
How about a Level-4 Bio-Containment facility (that breaks containment)?
It is my understanding from an article that i have read that genetic makeup of the Asian race makes them 5x more likely to develop the caronavirus once they have been exposed to it.
I have also read this morning that 29% of hospital staff have contracted the virus and another 12% have contracted the virus in the
Wuhan hospital out of 138 sick and being being treated there.
I will try to find that info and share it here.
Very interesting! Thanks for posting this.
They are mostly Chinese BECAUSE the virus came from China.
That doesn’t mean people of other races aren’t susceptible to it.
The Chinese on the other hand, are asking why the H1N1 virus was not called a North American virus when it had a worse infection rate and originated in our part of the world...
Check Twitter address @DrEricDing for info i just listed. He has some JAMA article there too you can read.
This time of year our Vitamin D is low and thats part of the reason people get the flu. Add this fsct to all the pollution in China thats blocks out the sunlight and you can see why these folks are dropping like rocks. I seem to remember a picture of large screen televisions in a square showing a rising sun because it could not be seen on the streets of Bejing.
White Americans ont e Princess cruise have it. One American died of it in China, but I don’t know the race.
The number of non-Asians in central China is very low.
Im sure this isnt the first time a ship has had to deal with airborne contagions, so perhaps designers have learned to add systems and tools to help control such things.
Designed weapon.
I don’t have a link and wasn’t familiar with the source so, grain of salt...
But I recall reading from someone claiming to degrees in bio-sciences and active work in the immunology field that suggested what’s going on now in China is due to the SARS vaccine making the population far more susceptible to this new outbreak.
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