Posted on 02/24/2020 8:14:11 PM PST by bitt
There’s a lot we don’t know about Covid-19 — the coronavirus now spreading around the world, aided by air travel.
Fighting Covid-19 has been complicated by a lack of transparent information from China about the exact origin of the disease, but there’s much that we do know, including the genome of this virus, which will quickly lead to an accurate diagnostic tool.
In the U.S., the next steps are to marshal that information and be smart about fully investing in our nation’s infectious disease safety net in order to protect people here at home.
But, because infectious diseases don’t recognize borders, we must fight this disease with a global mindset, working with the World Health Organization (WHO), other global stakeholders, and the Chinese Center for Disease Control.
They must be our partners in charting disease origins, its current status, and what our next steps should be. As of Feb. 11, there have been 42,000 cases and over 1,000 deaths in China, as well as small numbers of cases in an additional 25 countries including the U.S. (13 cases), underlining the urgency of concerted action.
Covid-19 is the latest of the coronaviruses, most of which only cause colds in humans, but these can mutate to forms that cause serious, sometimes life-threatening illnesses. In this case, the virus is zoonotic, meaning that it originated in an animal species and was transmitted to humans. Zoonotic diseases are very common and include ebola, salmonella, HIV, anthrax, and others.
A new study published in the Lancet confirmed that Covid-19 – like SARS, another coronavirus - began in bats. However, no bats were sold at the market where the outbreak is centered, which suggests that another, yet-to-be-identified animal acted as a bridge, transmitting the virus to humans. Study authors wrote that the outbreak "again highlights
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Just say to NO to hysteria!
Don’t laugh. I read i was a species of aardvark.
But I don’t want to start aardvarkaphobia. :)
“However, no bats were sold at the market where the outbreak is centered, which suggests that another, yet-to-be-identified animal acted as a bridge, transmitting the virus to humans. “
How do we know that humans did not bring it to the market?
Instead of “No Trespassing” signs I’m going for “Stay Out - Quarantine Area”. That ought to slow down traveling salesmen and Jehovah Witnesses.
Aardvarks and pangolins are cousins, I heard.
ahhh, climate change is the culprit!!! :)
The animal origin story has been abandoned. The virus came into the meat market from somewhere else.
The “wet market” where this virus has been tracked to is just jards from the Chinese government laboratory doing research on different pathogens for military application. They do research using lab animals, which some of the staff have, in the past, instead of disposing of as hazardous waste, sold at the “wet market” for extra income..... do the math.
The bio weapon lab nearby
It seems to be that the first rule of handling pandemics is to ignore it. The second is to conveniently forget how to contain them (because quarantines are so mean!) And the third is to throw piles of money at the problem while bemoaning that effective methods weren’t used early on to contain it.
I had to look pangolin up :)
Global propaganda alert! Global propaganda alert!
Run ! don’t walk ! to your government center where they can inject you with poison as you’re told to!
Colloidal silver kills all viruses
The vaccine industry is evil and vaccines do nothing
This article appears to me to be Marxist Hegelian Dialectic to help implement the Global NWO.
Definition: The Hegelian dialectic is the framework for guiding our thoughts and actions into conflicts that lead us to a predetermined solution.
If we do not understand how the Hegelian dialectic shapes our perceptions of the world, then we do not know how we are helping to implement the vision.
Just a coinky dink that a natural mutation happened just when people all over the world are resistant to NWO Globalism and in Favor of their own Nationalism.
Well, if we didn’t have such frekin’ open borders and travel of anybody and everybody wherever they want to go, things like this couldn’t move so fast all over the world.
When we remain locked into dialectical thinking, we cannot see out of the box.
I was looking at a video last week on YouTube (probably 3 years old)....Brit scientist based out of central China, who had the specialty of ‘fowl-disease’. So he point out that there was this vast number of caves which were now (in the 2016 period) open to the general public and was gaining popularity with the general public (guided tours, lighted caverns, etc).
Then he pointed out all these bats, and that the bats were mostly stationary in the caves....but would crap on people and objects in the cave. He had the worry then that some disease (bat-like) would cross over and someone would touch this contaminated area on themselves, and walk out with a potentially bad disease.
You can stand back now and suggest that rather than getting it in some fish-market...this likely came from one particular cave, and one particular tourist...probably in the fall period of 2019, and the tourist probably stayed at some Wuhan resort hotel....passing it onto their staff, and other hotel guests.
Just say no to sex with bats!
I agree with Sen. Tom Cotton’a belief that coronavirus likely originated in a lab.
It also occurred to me this afternoon that it is worth wondering if the “annual influenza strains” which seem to come out regularly have simply been intelligence gathering by the Chicoms, i.e., lets loose this new virus and note how fast it spreads and where it spreads. Over the span of a few years, a reliable map can be produced against which plans can be drawn.
Thus far the vast majority and rapid spread of this disease has been among Asiatics. Despite the widespread travel between Wusan and multiple points in the US, there have been to date no general outbreaks within the endemic US population.
There is an interesting part of the Italian outbreak that is not being publicized. The area of Italy where the outbreak has occurred has many garment producing factories. The seamstresses and many of the workers are Chinese living in Italy on work visas. It is not politically correct to ask but are the people who have become infected and ill in Italy really Chinese?
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