Posted on 08/26/2020 8:20:54 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
With the ongoing coronavirus pandemic still raging across the globe, the last thing we need is another new virus that is even more deadly. Unfortunately, that’s what recently popped up in Kazakhstan, at least according to Chinese health officials. The initial reports sounded pretty dire, with the new “unknown pneumonia” carrying a higher fatality rate than COVID-19, and cases piling up rapidly.
It was very, very bad news. That is until Kazakhstan officials decided to chime in on the reports and essentially denied the entire thing. China hasn’t backed down on its initial claims and insists that its neighbor is dealing with something very serious.
Kazakhstan went into lockdown in mid-March over the coronavirus pandemic. It enacted many of the same restrictions we’ve seen worldwide, and cases of COVID-19 began to trend downward. The country made the decision to “reopen,” or lift many of the lockdown restrictions in early May. Recently, the infection rate has begun to trend upward once again.
The country recently had its most reported infections in a single day. Roughly two weeks ago, officials reported nearly 2,000 new COVID-19 cases in a single day, which is a record for the country. The government has called this the “second wave,” and it’s similar to what many other countries, including the United States, are currently battling, but whether there is a new virus running rampant in the country is still unclear.
Kazakhstan officials have noted a huge spike in pneumonia in the country, and as we all know, COVID-19 emerged as an unidentified pneumonia in China before it was isolated and named. However, there’s no real evidence that the illness is anything other than a combination of seasonal illness and undiagnosed COVID-19 infections, so it’s odd that China would immediately jump to declaring that a new virus was on the loose.
Or, maybe it’s not so odd. China’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic has been interesting, to say the least. The country has kept a lot of information about the pandemic and its process of fighting it from the public. Reports out of China suggest that the situation in some areas was much, much worse than Chinese officials were claiming, so perhaps it’s not a stretch to think that China was eager to draw attention away from itself by claiming that a new virus in a different country was even more of a problem.
Whatever the case, it’s now been over a month since China made its initial claims, and Kazakhstan has yet to report the emergence of anything other than an increase in COVID-19 cases. If there really was a new virus in the country that was even worse than the novel coronavirus, it’s sure taking its time.
Oh boy. Dr. Fauci won’t need his viagra tonight.
We better destroy our economy further based on the word of the Chinks.
Nuke from all directions, just to be sure.
And now they have people on international flights to share it with everyone
They found it at the back of the sock drawer.
What percentage of people with this virus don’t even have symptoms? It may not be possible to find one LESS deadly...
OMG when will these fear mongers STFU?!?
Look for it to hit our shores in less than 6 months.
Paging second wave...
Don’t be derogatory towards the Chinese. There are 2 billion ethnic Chinese worldwide, from the murderous SOBs in Red China, to a few thousand good ol boy rednecks who live in Mississippi.
Sounds like a threat to me.
The Communist Chinese are butt hurt bad over Trumps America first trade policies.
Okay now THAT made me bust out laughing!
Agreed
great, china ‘found’ it
“Oh boy. Dr. Fauci won’t need his viagra tonight.”
Good sir, upon reading your post I found my vodka exiting via my nose at great velocity.
For anything to be funny, there must be that essential element of truth.
That’s funny right there, and so very TRUE!
found it in their lab
waaaaay back in the freezer
Where did they find it? It’s always the last place you look.
Release the Kracken...pussies...
China says it CREATED a virus...
There, fixed it.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.