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Fears heighten about a new mutant COVID strain as cases skyrocket in China
NY Post ^ | 12/29/2022 | Isabel Keane

Posted on 12/29/2022 6:44:38 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

Chinese health authorities are racing to catch new mutant COVID strains, as more than a third of Omicron variants detected in the crushing wave of infections slamming the country have resulted in larger outbreaks.

Over the past three months, China has detected over 130 sublineages of Omicron, including BF.7, a variant incredibly adept at evading immunity and believed to be behind the current surge in infections.

Xu Wenbo, head of the National Institute for Viral Disease Control and Prevention, said last week that China plans to track the virus centers around three city hospitals in each province. There, samples will be taken from sick walk-in patients as well as from patients who die.

Wenbo confirmed that 50 of the 130 omicron versions found in China had resulted in outbreaks.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; covid; democult; fears; strain
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To: ChicagoConservative27

21 posted on 12/29/2022 6:58:34 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: OHPatriot

Eleventy billion dead and climbing like a scramjet!!!

The more adjectives and exclamation points, the better.


22 posted on 12/29/2022 6:58:46 AM PST by EEGator
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To: SMARTY

Yeah. We should stop them at the “It is NOT open!” border. Right kareemy john despair?


23 posted on 12/29/2022 7:00:40 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: T.B. Yoits

Nice HTML skills!


24 posted on 12/29/2022 7:01:38 AM PST by Theophilus (It's fake and defective)
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To: Yo-Yo

They’ll roll out AI voting by 2024: Mail-in ballots are too dangerous and take too long to count. Our Dominion AI voting machines already know how you are going to vote anyhow.


25 posted on 12/29/2022 7:05:00 AM PST by Theophilus (It's fake and defective)
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To: EEGator

Bomb Virus has a nice ring.


26 posted on 12/29/2022 7:06:51 AM PST by mykroar (what is extraordinarily important is this—who will count the votes, and how. - J0eStalin)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Fearmongering heighten about a new mutant COVID strain narrative as new bioweapon cases skyrocket in China .


27 posted on 12/29/2022 7:10:58 AM PST by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: GaltAdonis

+1

Thanks for the direct quote.


28 posted on 12/29/2022 7:16:27 AM PST by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Thank you Dr Fraudci


29 posted on 12/29/2022 7:17:44 AM PST by Nifster (OI see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Duh! Just block ALL travel to/from China.


30 posted on 12/29/2022 7:18:35 AM PST by I want the USA back (News media not worth camel spit. My pronouns: Who, What, I Don't Know.)
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To: mykroar

You mean “BOMB VIRUS!!!”…


31 posted on 12/29/2022 7:23:21 AM PST by EEGator
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To: ChicagoConservative27
A New and Improved release from Wuhan Labs?

32 posted on 12/29/2022 7:31:05 AM PST by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: joma89
You are welcome.
My pleasure!
33 posted on 12/29/2022 7:31:15 AM PST by GaltAdonis
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To: All

Some reality for FR.

1) Stop thinking or talking or writing about fear. It’s so utterly pointless it boggles the mind. The virus doesn’t care if you’re afraid or if you are swaggering around saying you are not afraid. You are obsessed with fear. The virus doesn’t care about your fear.

2) Nothing works. The virus has defeated masks and it has defeated vax. Only one thing succeeded, and that success was rejected after some time passed. Evacuation of cities. NYC’s death spike in early 2020 stopped. It outright plunged, and this was pre vax. People stopped getting on subways or going to offices. The office rent did not get paid. City government recognized nothing could be funded if people stayed away so suddenly they went public begging people to return to work, and pressured companies to do away with work-from-home. Result? Presto, Covid deaths returned to NYC.

3) Money is a substance created from nothingness by central banks. To be trying to compute a death count increase or reduction as a function of impact on the economy is . . . insane? Well, not insane. Murderers don’t have to be insane.

4) It’s all about control? We’re talking about CHINA, for God’s sake. Use your heads. China has 100% control over their populace already. If they wanted more control, they don’t need a virus as an excuse, and there would be no point anyway because they are at 100%. They could just manufacture crimes and deploy law enforcement to make happen whatever they want to happen, and NO ONE, not a single person would oppose it. So put the whole CONTROL BS away. The virus doesn’t care about obsession over CONTROL, either.

5) People are dying. A lot of oldsters are dying. The virus is SMASHING societal life expectancy. If you’re young, you’re safe. And you get to spend more of your 401K quickly, because you’re not going to last long enough for it to run out.


34 posted on 12/29/2022 7:53:25 AM PST by Owen
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To: mykroar

Add-in “Vortex” somehow and you’ve got it!


35 posted on 12/29/2022 8:00:06 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Back in the military in 1966 we were taught that germ warfare was a bad idea as the virus you release on the enemy always comes back to bite you in the butt.

Enjoy, China! It’s your baby!


36 posted on 12/29/2022 8:01:17 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (“No man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.”)
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To: USA-FRANCE

If Covid is really killing off Chinese as it is said, I would expect Putin to decide “All your China belong to US!” and invade.


37 posted on 12/29/2022 8:04:09 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (“No man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.”)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Die China, Die! Yikes, that is not nice of me. Sorryish!
38 posted on 12/29/2022 8:05:42 AM PST by Chgogal (Welcome to Fuhrer Biden's Weaponized Fascist Banana Republic! It's the road to hell..)
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To: GaltAdonis

Bookmark


39 posted on 12/29/2022 8:06:24 AM PST by Chgogal (Welcome to Fuhrer Biden's Weaponized Fascist Banana Republic! It's the road to hell..)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
The reported R for BF.7 ranges from 10.0 to 18.6. It is very infectious. Roger Seheult, MD from MedCram observes that BF.7 is present in the US, but seems to be losing the "competition" to XBB. Another Twitter account that I follow is a PhD who contracted XBB. She is having "hypoproliferation" issues with her red blood cells. She is getting RBC transfusions to deal with dropping hemoglobin levels while seeking a more permanent solution. Solving her own problem is her core competency in treating her patients.
40 posted on 12/29/2022 8:12:39 AM PST by Myrddin
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