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To: kristinn
Utterly irrelevant. Basically lying with statistics

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

What matters are total numbers. It is not a pandemic it is not even really an epidemic. It a minor disease outbreak being reckless exaggerated and hyped by bureaucrats trying to scare people into funding their rice bowls.

If this was the global crisis as being hyped by WHO and other bureaucracies , the death toll in China would be in the hundred of thousands or millions by now. The death rate would be in double digits across all demographics and groups.

It is not.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

18 posted on 03/03/2020 3:23:26 PM PST by MNJohnnie (They would have abandon leftism to achieve sanity. Freeper Olog-hai)
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To: MNJohnnie

I already responded to your BS.

This meets the definition of pandemic. There is community transmission on 4 or more continents at this point. The mortality rate is not what determines the status.

Your one source that you rely on is itself dependent on numbers that are being faked for political gain. They are being suppressed to hide the major screwup by the CCP in handling this thing early on.

There is certainly evidence that suggests the number of dead in Wuhan is a 5 or 6 digit figure. 5000 cremations every day for 6+ weeks (multiple people from inside Wuhan have reported this) instead of the usual 4000 or so per week. Multiple ‘hospitals’ for thousands of patients - with no plumbing. 40 extra industrial incinerators for ‘medical waste’ when there is no medicine actually happening any more. Again, multiple sources. I’m not going there to check, but you feel free. That’s the only way we’ll get the facts out of China, at least for a long time. Based on what we’ve observed in the rest of the world, we can assume that most or all of the people in Wuhan are infected. Applying the 3.4% WHO number yields hundreds of thousands of dead, which is consistent with the crematorium numbers. So is this all paranoia and hype? You believe that, if you like. I’d rather not take the chance.

China tanked their own economy for what looks like at least 2 quarters over a case of the sniffles, right?


95 posted on 03/03/2020 4:56:10 PM PST by calenel (Don't panic. Prepare and be vigilant.)
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