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Coronavirus worse than reported
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| February 16, 2020
| Lew Olowski
Posted on 02/16/2020 5:26:36 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
Chinas novel coronavirus, COVID-19, has killed and infected more people than officially reported. In one day, total reported infections and deaths increased 44% and 23%, respectively...merely because the government changed the criteria by which it tracks confirmed cases.
The official tally has been an underestimate and is still catching up to reality. About 99% of the cases have been reported in China.
...before the adjustment, circumstances suggested weeks ago that the outbreak is spreading far beyond the official count of cases. Many causes contribute to this undercounting.
- the diagnostic test for COVID-19 may be only 30-40% accurate.
- the diagnostic test is scarce. Tests are rationed for the most obviously symptomatic patients. But carriers can be asymptomatic. And they can be contagious before showing signs of infection.
- Chinese hospitals have been overwhelmed with patients; only those who obtained medical treatment and also tested positive for the virus were included in the official tally.
- resources and public attention have concentrated on Wuhan, a city of 11 million. Tens of millions more live in Wuhans surrounding province, Hubei, which is less equipped with healthcare services. To the extent uncounted cases exist in Wuhan, more uncounted cases exist in Wuhans exurbs.
- politics also prevents an accurate appraisal. Chinas communist government is a totalitarian, one-party state.
The severity of the Chinese governments actual response to COVID-19 is a more reliable indicator than the diseases publicly acknowledged tally. While admitting to just 17 deaths from the virus, the party quarantined a region of about 60 million people. This decision guaranteed multibillion-dollar economic losses.
It is inconceivable that the Chinese government would wilfully suffer such a cost for the sake of a few dozen or even a few hundred lives.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2019ncov; asia; china; chinavirus; chinavirusinfo; coronavirus; covid19; disease; wuhanflu
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Good article - worth reading.
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Fox News is right on top of it.
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Lew Jan Olowski
Lew Jan Olowski is an international and national security law attorney in Washington, D.C.
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People should know that Fox has this labelled as an opinion article. The author isn’t a health professional.
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posted on
02/16/2020 5:36:02 PM PST
by
Moonman62
(Charity comes from wealth.)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
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posted on
02/16/2020 5:37:15 PM PST
by
Paladin2
To: Vermont Lt
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posted on
02/16/2020 5:37:26 PM PST
by
KingLudd
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Wow FoxNews, that’s pretty good reporting of what most folks have known for weeks now.
How’d you do that?
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posted on
02/16/2020 5:45:04 PM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(The DNC has a taxidermist on speed dial for Nancy, Hillary, and Ruth.)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
There are three types of lies: Regular lies, damn lies, and Chinese government statistics.
CC
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posted on
02/16/2020 5:45:07 PM PST
by
Celtic Conservative
(My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
China runs on cutting corners, bribes, and family ties allowing some people to ignore the rules. For all the talk about how powerful the Party is, until a few heads roll for not doing their job, nothing is so serious that it rocks the public out of their business as usual.
When the local officials in Wuhan decided that having a hundred thousand people share an open pot shared meal was an important way to keep the public from knowing there was a dangerous virus on the loose while they tried to figure out what was going on, a pandemic was all but inevitable.
JMHo
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posted on
02/16/2020 5:52:11 PM PST
by
Rashputin
(Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
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posted on
02/16/2020 5:52:11 PM PST
by
preacher
( Journalism no longer reports news, they use news to shape our society.)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
It is inconceivable that the Chinese government would wilfully suffer such a cost for the sake of a few dozen or even a few hundred lives....
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That is a problem right there. Under estimating your enemy’s deviousness.
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posted on
02/16/2020 5:56:51 PM PST
by
CincyRichieRich
(Vote for President Trump in 2020 or end up equally miserable, no rights, and eating zoo animals)
To: CincyRichieRich
I don’t even think the Chinese government as an estimate of how many people died building the Three Gorges Dam. They gave him the deadline to move and there are probably several hundred thousand who died. The Chinese don’t mind losing many people if it attains an end that their government wants.
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posted on
02/16/2020 5:58:05 PM PST
by
CincyRichieRich
(Vote for President Trump in 2020 or end up equally miserable, no rights, and eating zoo animals)
To: Vermont Lt
I cannot believe the Chinese communists would lie to us.....
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posted on
02/16/2020 5:58:38 PM PST
by
minnesota_bound
(homeless guy. He just has more money....He the master will plant more cotton for the democrat party)
To: DoughtyOne
The author pulled a lot of disparate things we’ve been reading for a while into a coherent whole / big picture. Nothing wrong with that; it’s a good contribution to the body of info, especially for people who are not as widely read and educated on this bug as the typical FReeper. Need to view these articles not through the lens of the smarties here on FR, but of the common man (nobody here is “common”).
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Perhaps so.
I’ll have to admit to thinking most folks have heard of the body bag pickups and the cremation going on.
There probably are people out there who haven’t though.
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posted on
02/16/2020 6:01:13 PM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(The DNC has a taxidermist on speed dial for Nancy, Hillary, and Ruth.)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
No more flights from CHINA!
To: ProtectOurFreedom
All your healthcare resources are belong to us.
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posted on
02/16/2020 6:06:58 PM PST
by
MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
(Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Since 80% of our meds are made in China; this will have a huge and profound effect on us (and much of the world) at some point unless this thing is contained.
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posted on
02/16/2020 6:13:05 PM PST
by
Boomer
('Democrat' is now synonymous with 'corrupt')
To: CincyRichieRich; ProtectOurFreedom
"...That is a problem right there. Under estimating your enemys deviousness..." I find it hard to underestimate a country that in living memory murdered between 40 and 120 million of its own people...murdered them for political reasons.
I don't think there is any evil that government is incapable of.
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posted on
02/16/2020 6:17:36 PM PST
by
rlmorel
(Finding middle ground with tyranny or evil makes you either a tyrant or evil. Often both.)
To: ProtectOurFreedom; neverdem; Mother Abigail; EBH; vetvetdoug; Smokin' Joe; Global2010; ...
Fox the fox
Year of the rat
Infect the ape
I know about that
Bring Out Your Dead
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the Bring Out Your Dead ping list (formerly the Ebola ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the Bring Out Your Dead threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.
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posted on
02/16/2020 6:21:40 PM PST
by
null and void
(By the pricking of my lungs, Something wicked this way comes ...)
To: DoughtyOne
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