No doubt this COVID-19 is a virulent pathogen. However it is critically important, although politically incorrect, to define just what population groups are susceptible to infection and have a high mortality once infected. Given the fact that Caucasians and Africans living and working in Wusan the epicenter of COVID-19, did not become infected or die at the same rate of the endemic Chinese, that the region in Italy of the outbreak has a high concentration of Chinese immigrants and guest workers, and that Iran, where the Silk Road transveersed with Chinese caravans and the Mongols conquered, has a population carrying a significant Asian genome, this virus most readily infects and is most lethal to Asians. Hence it is not likely that there will be a general outbreak in the United States but disease can be expected where there are concentrations of Asians. The virus is already here given the large numbers of travelers from Wusan that arrived in multiple points in the US from Dec15-Jan 23.
Housing supply should skyrocket, as so many Chinese owners succumb to COVID-19 and their kids sell the properties. Likewise, the number of wealthy Chinese looking for homes in the Lower Mainland should also drop. Increased housing supply coupled with decreased demand may make housing almost affordable in Hongcouver!
Interesting - I don't want to sound bigoted but I was wondering how many deaths involved non-ethnic Asians vs. Asians (i.e. whites,blacks vs. east Asians). I can't find a breakdown anywhere.
Hmmm. Someone at work speculated that this was China’s way of culling the herd. I hadn’t heard that before.
“Hence it is not likely that there will be a general outbreak in the United States”
There are nearly four million Asians just in California so I’m not so sure about your take on this.