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Beijing closes all schools, bracing for a 2nd wave of the coronavirus
bj ^ | 6/16/2020 | Isaac Scher 1 hour ago

Posted on 06/16/2020 11:17:26 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19

Beijing, China, shuttered in-person classes for all schools on Tuesday, bracing for a new wave of the coronavirus. The closure goes into effect Wednesday.

The capital hub of 20 million people had gone more than 50 consecutive days without a new recorded case of COVID-19, the disease caused by the new virus. But last weekend, city officials reported a cluster of 87 new cases, the Financial Times reported, 46 of which were asymptomatic. That cluster emerged in Xinfadi, the largest produce and seafood market in the city.

Xinfadi was closed over the weekend, as were several residential buildings on the west side of Beijing. More than 100 people have gone into a 14-day quarantine.

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


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ccp; chinesepropaganda; propaganda
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To: Artcore

It’s not a joke. This is a very vicious virus. We haven’t seen anything like this in 100-and-some-odd years. Thankfully, the administration has cut through every piece of red tape to achieve the fastest-ever, by far, launch of a vaccine trial for this new virus.


41 posted on 06/16/2020 12:06:59 PM PDT by 2aProtectsTheRest
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To: Steve Van Doorn

I suspect that China intentionally gave a lower death count than actually happened, then they added these deaths to close the discrepancy.


42 posted on 06/16/2020 12:07:37 PM PDT by Morpheus2009 (If you want me to be afraid, then be consistent in your logic, standards, and your lies!)
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To: Caipirabob

I despise the domestic sympathizers even more.


43 posted on 06/16/2020 12:09:38 PM PDT by Morpheus2009 (If you want me to be afraid, then be consistent in your logic, standards, and your lies!)
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To: Steve Van Doorn

I think it’s a combination of them locking everyone in their homes under threat of death (which is effective from a virus containment standpoint if you don’t care about your people) and outright lies coming from them about what’s happening.


44 posted on 06/16/2020 12:10:07 PM PDT by 2aProtectsTheRest
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To: Morpheus2009

I know they aren’t living. I have heard that when the host (the person) sneezes or speaks and expels the virus the virus cannot survive in hot temperatures long enough to infect another host.


45 posted on 06/16/2020 12:10:48 PM PDT by CaptainK ('No collusion, no obstruction, he's a leaker')
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To: Steve_Seattle

There goes the TP again.


46 posted on 06/16/2020 12:12:52 PM PDT by GnuThere
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To: Artcore
We’re going to have the usual suspects who frequent this site, helping the Fake News push another round of this bill sh*t!

Watch out there Artcore.!

You're talkin' way TOO MUCH TRUTH and they'll be comin' after you.

47 posted on 06/16/2020 12:13:34 PM PDT by VideoDoctor
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To: 2aProtectsTheRest

It’s not a joke. This is a very vicious virus. We haven’t seen anything like this in 100-and-some-odd years. Thankfully, the administration has cut through every piece of red tape to achieve the fastest-ever, by far, launch of a vaccine trial for this new virus.

....

And yet most folks who get this recover completely!

More and more people are being tested, and have the antibody! Many of these people were asymptomatic! Ill guarentee when the folks who have the antibody are added into the total number of cases, the death rate percentage will be on par with influenza!

Sorry, but those on whom you rely were wrong about every facet of this bug! There is no reason you should be listened to or believed regarding your bogus speculations!

We were played by the Left! Never again!


48 posted on 06/16/2020 12:13:51 PM PDT by Artcore (Trump 2020!)
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To: VideoDoctor

Watch out there Artcore.!

You’re talkin’ way TOO MUCH TRUTH and they’ll be comin’ after you.

....

I know right! LOL!


49 posted on 06/16/2020 12:16:03 PM PDT by Artcore (Trump 2020!)
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To: precisionshootist

I suspect this may be an attempt to hurt the American economy by restarting the fake pandemic panic.
The commies are after Trump.
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Yep


50 posted on 06/16/2020 12:16:22 PM PDT by ecomcon
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To: 2aProtectsTheRest
It’s not a joke. This is a very vicious virus.

NPR: Antibody Tests Point To Lower Death Rate For The Coronavirus Than First Thought
NPR  | 05/28/2020 | Jon Hamilton

Mounting evidence suggests the coronavirus is more common and less deadly than it first appeared.

The evidence comes from tests that detect antibodies to the coronavirus in a person's blood rather than the virus itself.

The tests are finding large numbers of people in the U.S. who were infected but never became seriously ill. And when these mild infections are included in coronavirus statistics, the virus appears less dangerous.

"The current best estimates for the infection fatality risk are between 0.5% and 1%," says Caitlin Rivers, an epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.

That's in contrast with death rates of 5% or more based on calculations that included only people who got sick enough to be diagnosed with tests that detect the presence of virus in a person's body.

And the revised estimates support an early prediction by Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a leading member of the White House coronavirus task force. In an editorial published in late March in The New England Journal of Medicine, Fauci and colleagues wrote that the case fatality rate for COVID-19 "may be considerably less than 1%."  

The new evidence is coming from places such as Indiana, which completed the first phase of a massive testing effort early in May.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/05/28/863944333/antibody-tests-point-to-lower-death-rate-for-the-coronavirus-than-first-thought

51 posted on 06/16/2020 12:18:55 PM PDT by VideoDoctor
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To: RomanSoldier19

The capital hub of 20 million people had gone more than 50 consecutive days without a new recorded case of COVID-19...

20M people. No cases.

Sounds believable. Sure.


52 posted on 06/16/2020 12:22:05 PM PDT by Flick Lives (My work's illegal, but at least it's honest. - Capt. Malcolm Reynolds)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Yawn


53 posted on 06/16/2020 12:23:10 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: 2aProtectsTheRest

Open your eyes. You are being played.


54 posted on 06/16/2020 12:25:36 PM PDT by ecomcon
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To: 2aProtectsTheRest
Looks like we have a leftwing troll from Communist China...

2aProtectsTheRest
Since May 7, 2020

55 posted on 06/16/2020 12:31:39 PM PDT by newfreep
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To: RomanSoldier19

Another set up by the communists in China?


56 posted on 06/16/2020 12:38:24 PM PDT by kempster (w President of all time.)
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To: truthkeeper

They don’t want you to get a chance to vote. That’s the whole goal.


57 posted on 06/16/2020 12:38:51 PM PDT by livius
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To: discostu

Correct. It’s the ultraviolet light of the sun that will kill viruses. That’s why the summer months, when people are outside and more widespread, things typically die off.

What is China doing in school now anyway?


58 posted on 06/16/2020 12:42:42 PM PDT by TangledUpInBlue
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To: RomanSoldier19

Maybe we should be explaining how to handle food to them


59 posted on 06/16/2020 12:43:18 PM PDT by TangledUpInBlue
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To: precisionshootist

Your post my thoughts exactly. I do believe you are correct.


60 posted on 06/16/2020 12:48:25 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists Call 'em what you will, they all have fairies livin' in their trees)
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