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Tears, fear and panic grip China as coronavirus spreads
The Los Angeles Times ^ | January 28, 2020 | By ALICE SU

Posted on 01/28/2020 1:20:00 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

BEIJING - The man burst out with a shout at the last second as medical workers boarded a bus headed to Wuhan: “Wang Yuehua, I love you!” He sobbed, gasping, as his wife joined an emergency response team headed to the deadly new coronavirus that has killed at least 100 patients and infected more than 4,500 people across China. Reported cases are rising every day - more than 60% in the last 24 hours alone.

A nurse patted the man on the shoulder as he lowered his head, heaving. Another woman came by and murmured to him as he cried, “I know, I can’t control it.”

The nurse next to him began to weep as well, wiping her face as the bus pulled away, loaded with colleagues and loved ones venturing on a perilous journey into an epidemic.

Shared grief, suspicion and multiplying tensions have seized this nation. Since the central government takeover of China’s virus response last week, state media has broadcast a steady stream of inspirational reports about heroic Chinese people uniting to fight the unseen enemy, confident in the party’s leadership. Over and over again, the government repeats: Trust us. Be calm. Wash your hands. Stay home.

But offscreen, China’s virus war is grim. Silent cities sit in a white winter smog that blots out the sky, their silent, empty streets contrasting with the crowded hospitals where doctors and nurses break down because they lack equipment or rooms for the patients squeezed outside their doors.

Fear lurks in the background of even healthy people’s minds, inflated by the proximity of death, fragility of loved ones, and most of all by the unknown: where the virus comes from, how it changes, how it spreads, whether one has it or not, and whether authorities are providing the full truth.

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; communism; coronavirus; fear; panic; tears; virus
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To: Ingtar

That graph is a perfect representation of a 2.8 Ro.
Maybe 2.6
Just beautiful. I posted a link to one a few days ago.
Would you like to see it?


41 posted on 01/28/2020 4:09:24 PM PST by MarMema (Proud co-pilot for John James)
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To: setter

With you 150% my friend. I’ve been waiting for this day for many years. Have seen my share of videos as well.

They have a uniformly consistent sadistic culture that goes beyond dogs. The planet is better off without them. I am far from alone in this belief. Knowledgeable people are speaking this way on many forms of social media.

Thanks for sharing.


42 posted on 01/28/2020 4:15:28 PM PST by MarMema (Proud co-pilot for John James)
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To: MarMema

43 posted on 01/28/2020 4:51:20 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: MarMema

Yes. I would.


44 posted on 01/28/2020 5:04:36 PM PST by Ingtar (Bedbugs, thy name is Democrat.)
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To: MarMema
Or God has had enough of their cruelty. Time to reboot.

Get in line Vietnam and South Korea.

Then get in line, America, which itself has not repented for tens of millions of abortions, and which is already seeing confirmed cases of the virus which you "like."

Then get in line, those who claim to despise "cruelty" but eagerly lust for the deaths of entire nations.

"Woe unto you that desire the day of the Lord! to what end is it for you? the day of the Lord is darkness, and not light." -- Amos 5:18

Ohio woman wearing fur is stabbed by animal-rights activist in church, police say

45 posted on 01/28/2020 6:15:08 PM PST by Lonely Bull ("ThatÂ’s what I like about this virus." -- MarMema, January 26, 2020)
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To: setter
I truly believe in Karma and think China is getting theirs right now.

I don't believe in karma, but the United States must have been spared because we'd never elect, much less re-elect, anyone that cruel (much less anyone who's admitted to having eaten dog)!

46 posted on 01/28/2020 6:38:32 PM PST by Lonely Bull ("ThatÂ’s what I like about this virus." -- MarMema, January 26, 2020)
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To: Ingtar

From what I’ve read here and there, the max incubation before symptoms is about 14 days with the average at about 5. Could be more or less. And I’d take the word about transmission before symptoms with a grain of salt, although it’s possible with other viruses, too. Maybe they’re referring to communication before pneumonia (very possible) instead of communication before fever (less likely).

[Disclaimer: I was a poor intro. biology student and developed an interest years afterwards.]


47 posted on 01/28/2020 6:54:11 PM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer; Smokin' Joe; MarMema; Mom MD; Black Agnes; Myrddin

https://twitter.com/ComfortablySmug/status/1222270687659876352

Two suspected cases in DC according to this tweet.

Katie bar the door.


48 posted on 01/28/2020 8:10:27 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: Lonely Bull

Amen. While I abhor cruelty, these are people Christ died for and has called us to love. The US is far from perfect as well.


49 posted on 01/28/2020 8:15:26 PM PST by Mom MD
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To: grey_whiskers

Suspected case in Fairfax too


50 posted on 01/28/2020 8:18:32 PM PST by CJ Wolf ( #wwg1wga)
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To: CJ Wolf

Link please? This may burn through the densely-packed-with-foreigners blue suburbs who voted in Gov. Blackface Gungrabber.


51 posted on 01/28/2020 8:20:33 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: grey_whiskers

I honestly think you might have posted it. https://www.wusa9.com/mobile/article/news/health/george-mason-student-tested-for-coronavirus/65-41d80461-0e41-4a7e-84b1-5e22bb87cf72

Archive everything


52 posted on 01/28/2020 8:35:49 PM PST by CJ Wolf ( #wwg1wga)
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To: CJ Wolf

I’m sorry, I don’t have time. I can barely keep up with cat pictures for the Q threads.


53 posted on 01/28/2020 8:40:48 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: Ingtar

That might have been a mean of 5 days for the incubation. Not sure, and I’ve read quickly through many articles.


54 posted on 01/28/2020 8:43:15 PM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: grey_whiskers

Well those are money, have you examined the pixelated codes contained there with in?


55 posted on 01/28/2020 8:46:47 PM PST by CJ Wolf ( #wwg1wga)
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To: Mom MD
While I abhor cruelty, these are people Christ died for and has called us to love.

I, too, abhor cruelty--and therefore I refuse to wish illness, suffering, and death upon entire countries, including many innocents.

These are countries that have increasing numbers of Christians too (there've been multiple threads here, such as "Report: Christianity Sweeping China as Millions Convert"). I find the implicit lust for their harm especially "interesting" from people who profess Christianity. Such people remind me more, though, of extremist "animal lovers" who hate people--who else calls for so much depopulation?

"Recompense to no man evil for evil." (Romans 12:17a)

"Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law." (Romans 13:10)

"Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbour unto him that fell among the thieves?
And he said, He that shewed mercy on him. Then said Jesus unto him, Go, and do thou likewise." (Luke 10:36-37)

56 posted on 01/28/2020 9:41:22 PM PST by Lonely Bull ("ThatÂ’s what I like about this virus." -- MarMema, January 26, 2020)
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To: MarMema

It’s growing 50% daily and more than doubling every two days


57 posted on 01/28/2020 10:38:51 PM PST by rmlew ("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
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To: Lonely Bull

There’s just a lot of ignorance here. Yours included.
The culture in China is consistently cruel across the board - orphanages, zoos, entertainment, stolen pets for meat,
And especially organ harvesting from political prisoners. I have good friends in Taiwan. Ask Tibet about China.

International social media sites have people who get it.

Also more biochem buddies to hang out with...

Find someone else to play superChristian with...you don’t impress me one bit.


58 posted on 01/29/2020 3:15:54 AM PST by MarMema (Proud co-pilot for John James)
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To: MarMema

Find somewhere else to post your depopulation fantasies, which by no means impress me that you have any actual objection to cruelty. I suggest somewhere that welcomes such ideas as “death to [insert your least favorite country here]” or “America’s chickens are coming home to roost.”

If you are cheering for the virus, I wouldn’t expect to impress you anyway, and you need something more than what I can provide.


59 posted on 01/29/2020 5:18:20 AM PST by Lonely Bull ("ThatÂ’s what I like about this virus." -- MarMema, January 26, 2020)
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To: Lonely Bull

I’m not under your dictatorship.


60 posted on 01/29/2020 5:22:26 AM PST by MarMema (Proud co-pilot for John James)
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