Posted on 02/11/2020 10:48:15 AM PST by Red Badger
——Chinese panicking.-——
The visual effect of the very large sprayers is great
As a bureaucrat, doing something visual is far better than doing nothing. To soothe fears of thousands of women distraught with fear over the well being of their children is a worthwhile endeavor even if the effort is not real.
alcohol, especially when mixed with water is cheap
Down south it was a regular summer occurrence to spray to get rid of mosquitoes.
[Whats interesting is that the bubonic plague ravaged the Roman Empire during the lifetime of Zhang Fei.]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_(disease)#Biological_weapon
This pre-dates, by almost 800 years, the first (fictional) mention I recall of plague in the Chinese context. A plague epidemic was a background element in one of (Dutch sinologist) Robert van Gulik’s Judge Dee detective novels. Judge Dee’s character was a Tang dynasty magistrate who occasionally operated as an imperial censor/auditor to check up on non-local “local” officials helicoptered in to high provincial posts by the emperor.
Brings back memories of riding behind the truck spraying for skeeters in Tampa in the early 50s. Still hack, hack, here. :-)
Same here, but mid 50’s, Albrook AFB Canal Zone
I remember reading that several large areas in Europe had little Plague. Come to find out those people did have a genetic advantage and were not as likely to get the Plague or die from the Plague. I think it helps to protect those same people from AIDS.
[Actually, I believe it is the opposite. Not yet confirmed, but there’s been several articles that this virus is more infectious for either Chinese or East Asians in general, with those populations have 5-6x the numbers of receptors in the lungs for it, as compared to most European descendants.]
Pre-Columbian Indians were killed by smallpox in huge numbers because they had no prior exposure to the bug. Similarly non-Chinese should have very little exposure to coronaviruses because for most part, they don’t think of bats or pangolins as food. In theory, this should make them especially vulnerable.
Another possibility is a prior Coronavirus vaccine may have been used in inoculations, one which resulted in dire side effects with exposure to the new virus.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22536382
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