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Iran is bungling coronavirus as supreme leader tells populace it may be a blessing
American Thinker ^ | Thomas Lifson

Posted on 03/05/2020 12:08:13 AM PST by RoosterRedux

The medieval theocrats who rule Iran with an iron hand may be helping the coronavirus fulfill its potential as an uncontrollable epidemic. Yesterday, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei sought to calm what must be mass concern by appearing in public (apparently wearing gloves) to tell his countrymen that it might even be a blessing:

Many people strongly suspect that the practice of licking a holy shrine in Qom, epicenter of the current outbreak, has something to do with the rapid spread, including to senior members of the regime.

Yet the supreme leader did nothing to discourage this practice.

Perhaps even worse, the regime is fearful of coronavirus spreading in prisons; one suspects there is a factual basis for this fear. So what do they do? They release 54,000 prisoners to go and circulate among the general population, in order to spread the disease even wider.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: communityspread; coronavirus; covid19; sarscov2
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1 posted on 03/05/2020 12:08:13 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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the practice of licking a holy shrine in Qom, epicenter of the current outbreak, has something to do with the rapid spread, including to senior members of the regime.

Huh? Ya think?

2 posted on 03/05/2020 12:12:02 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux; Grampa Dave; musicman; null and void; Fiddlstix

3 posted on 03/05/2020 12:22:27 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: All
without the hyphens.....


4 posted on 03/05/2020 12:33:34 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: RoosterRedux

The general number of use for infecting on this virus....is that for each member having the virus....will typically infect 2.5 individuals. So with 54,000 prisoners out...by day five of their freedom, they should have around 125,000 new folks infected (if all of them had the virus).

I’m no Einstein, but I would figure from the 81.5-million in population for Iran....at least 10-million should be infected by the end of March, and 50-million by the end of April. From the old Mullah population....virtually all of them probably will pass from this Earth by mid-summer.


5 posted on 03/05/2020 12:50:56 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: pepsionice

Yep. Iran is clearly THE place to watch re: this virus. The question is...will this virus evolve and adapt once it gains a solid foothold in an incubation lab like Iran?


6 posted on 03/05/2020 1:03:13 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux
A blessing ? Well perhaps they should tell that to their Chinese allies.

A warning from Beijing

7 posted on 03/05/2020 1:19:03 AM PST by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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COVID-19 Spreadsheet using JHU data

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8 posted on 03/05/2020 1:19:28 AM PST by DoughtyOne (The DNC has a taxidermist on speed for Nancy, Hillary, and Ruth.)
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To: SaveFerris

There is a better chance The 12th Man will spring from a well in College Station


9 posted on 03/05/2020 2:47:25 AM PST by A_Former_Democrat (Guns up . . . We cominÂ’ "Breadline Bernie" "Bernie Castro-Sanders")
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To: RoosterRedux

I knew it, these religious nuts are geniuses.


10 posted on 03/05/2020 3:02:51 AM PST by existentially_kuffer
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To: DoughtyOne

11 posted on 03/05/2020 4:02:02 AM PST by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: RoosterRedux

Don’t expect any help from us, bastards. You have 150 billion of our money. Use it to help your people instead of blowing up innocents.


12 posted on 03/05/2020 4:11:29 AM PST by I want the USA back (We have sunk to a depth where restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men:Orwell)
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To: RoosterRedux
Meanwhile...

Huawei could be in big trouble as new documents suggest it broke sanctions on Iran by shipping it US equipment from HP and Microsoft

13 posted on 03/05/2020 4:13:54 AM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: RoosterRedux

The Mullahs should announce that the WuHan virus was sent from America and any Mohammedan who dies from it is a martyr and will go straight to Paradise with coupons for extra virgins,- Women, of course, not included.


14 posted on 03/05/2020 4:27:08 AM PST by arthurus (bo)
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To: RoosterRedux

Perhaps the god of virulence will develop a fondness for Mussulmans.


15 posted on 03/05/2020 4:29:16 AM PST by arthurus (bo)
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To: DoughtyOne

There’s no way I’m going to click on those links.

I don’t want to risk getting a virus.


16 posted on 03/05/2020 4:32:10 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia (Democrats: The perfect party for the helpless and stupid, and those who would rule over them.)
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To: pepsionice
"....at least 10-million should be infected by the end of March"

May the will of Allah be done.

17 posted on 03/05/2020 4:33:28 AM PST by HangThemHigh (Entropy is not what it used to be.)
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To: SaveFerris

“In Iran, the mortality was very high: according to an estimate, between 902,400 and 2,431,000, or 8% to 22% of the total population died.[Spanish Flu]”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu#Around_the_globe


18 posted on 03/05/2020 4:33:50 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: pepsionice
...virtually all of them probably will pass from this Earth by mid-summer."

Based on.... what?

So you are stating there will be 100% mortality in Iran? Really?

19 posted on 03/05/2020 4:34:41 AM PST by Fury
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I’m saying the Mullah crowd (mostly all over the age of 65) will have a hard time surviving this virus.


20 posted on 03/05/2020 4:42:00 AM PST by pepsionice
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