Posted on 02/23/2020 1:59:45 AM PST by cba123
South Korea’s president Moon Jae-in has placed the country on “red alert” after it reported its fifth death and more than 123 new coronavirus cases, taking the total number of infected to 556.
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Reports saying China is building 19 new hospitals.
Can anyone confirm that from a reliable source? (It may be upthread and I missed it?)
Why if the cases are going down.
Not that I think the Chinese numbers can be trusted, but, even if those numbers just give some sense of trends, China has, what, maybe 100k infected people, plus "confirmed cases", "out there" at a minimum. Maybe it is more like half a million infections & cases not yet tabulated? That number should decline if they continue the strong confinement and quarantine actions, but they CAN'T go on with the country half shut down. That will lose them more people than the virus. Much less the other effects of a wrecked economy.
And, I do mean wrecked. No tiddledywinks "Great Depression" for you here...
So, even if they have this epidemic slowed at the moment, they have to "go back to work" making stuff, transporting it, and so on. That will lead to more cases -- remember that at present only a tiny fraction of the populace has been infected. China has to hope they can do some sort of tightrope act of slowing the virus without doing too much economic harm, and maybe accept, say, the equivalent of a very bad flu year x 5, on top of other health care needs, on an ongoing basis. If a vaccine can be developed, maybe that gets things down to a 2x very bad flu year added on, per year.
But, just consider: Even if all you want is to not lose too many of your professional class and Party members, how many new hospitals would that take in a country of 1.3 billion people?
I heard it from Steve on No_Agenda TV yesterday on YouTube.. https://youtu.be/YL4PvEBgnT4
A simple instruction, know them by their acts. Their acts border on desperation and are not justified by the statistics promulgated by the government. The only logical conclusion is things are MUCH worse then the governments let on.
Exactly.
Nuff said.
Oh, and Apple, and the chipmakers, are showing double-top chart patterns.
Stop humping Pandas on the open thread.
Your utter ignorance is appalling.
It seems you are very concerned or upset about this issue, but I am entitled to post information like everyone else, so don't try to start something with me.
I don’t even pay attention to China anymore, information from there is useless.
South Korea is the country that bears watching now. We should get a much more accurate picture of just what this thing is going to do.
When we have a flu pandemic we will be sure to call for your expertise. We are not dealing with a flu here.
Please get back to me when US coronavirus deaths surpass regular flu deaths, i. e. 80,000 US flu deaths two winters ago. Long way to go as currently the number is zero.
I don't recall hearing much concern two winters ago about the US death toll. So get back to me and we can commiserate together...
You don’t get it. And you don’t want to. You are fixated on the flu.
Please do a little objective reading. It’s not about dying. It’s about the system being overwhelmed and then seizing.
But, keep spouting flu facts. They are interesting, I guess.
ok
Read post 264 on your other thread.
“Please get back to me when US coronavirus deaths surpass regular flu deaths, i. e. 80,000 US flu deaths two winters ago. Long way to go as currently the number is zero.”
By then you’ll be too busy trying to find food and other essentials, and having to stand in line with sick people, so I doubt you’ll have much time to check back here.
But don’t worry, we won’t miss you!
You don’t know what Coronavirus is doing in/to China: both their economy and global supply chains.
People are being ordered to go back to work and not complying.
Secondly, the virus is aerosolized, transmissible without symptoms, and can re-infect those cleared if it, with the second infection being more dangerous than the first.
And 15%-20% of those infected require hospitalization or the intensive care unit. That will crash any medical system.
Not 180M.
That’s 1/8 of their population.
I’d guess on the order of one-to-several hundred thousand dead so far.
Agreed.
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