Originally posted by: PJ Stroh
Good News - our president has tweeted the virus will be eradicated by April "when the weather gets warmer".
No scientific evidence was provided as to what that has to do with anything but no problemo.
I feel safer already.
Oh, whew! Thank God the Orange One is going to save us! I was worried there for a while!
Let's hear some fawning praise from our Trumpers about how Trump has just eradicated the coronavirus all by himself! Wow, I can see why Trumpers love him!
No, actually you can't see.
Latest news fro China:
__Today's report of the number of citizens who are infected rose by 14,840 to a total 48,206.
(Prior to today - i.e. over the previous 21 Days the highest number of new-cases-in-a-single-day never rose above 4,000.)
__Today's report of the number of deaths rose by 242 to a total of 1310. (Prior to today the highest number of deaths in one day had been reported as just over 100.)
It seems that today China has i. decided to come clean on the number of cases of the Corona Virus in China which they've been under-reporting, . . . or, even worse, ii. the infection rate has risen significantly in one day.
Poor old DonDiego says: "Have a nice day !"
Trump has offered to help: he told them, "Wait until it gets warmer."
I continue to believe that the high death rate is due to the rudimentary nature of China's health care system rather than any inherent lethality of the disease. After all, why would there be decent health care in a country where the government thinks there are too many people?
Poor old DonDiego has come across a BBC report providing a pretty comprehensive summary of where this latest contagion stands: "Coronavirus: Senior Chinese officials 'removed' as death toll hits 1,000"
ref: www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-51453848
Here's another "expert opinion piece" on the origin of the Coronavirus (2019-nCoV):
Logistical and Technical Explorations into the origins of the Wuhan Strain of Coronavirus
[ Ref: harvardtothebighouse.com/2020/01/31/logistical-and-technical-analysis-of-the-origins-of-the-wuhan-coronavirus (2019-nCoV) ]
The conclusion: "Chinese scientists failed to follow correct sanitation protocols possibly while in a rush during their boisterous holiday season, something that had been anticipated since the opening of the BSL-4 lab and has happened at least four times previously, and accidentally released this bio-engineered Wuhan Strain – likely created by scientists researching immunotherapy regimes against bat coronaviruses, who’ve already demonstrated the ability to perform every step necessary to bio-engineer the Wuhan Strain 2019-nCov – into their population, and now the world."
Or not.
Ah, a "news" release about something that "possibly likely" happened. Maybe it might be kinda sorta true.
The author of the article doesn't know one way or the other if the virus was bioengineered, but talks as if that's a certainty. This kind of irresponsible "reporting" is why so many people believe so many things that are utter bullshit--there's no ethics on the internet.
The author must be a DemocRat then.
Originally posted by: David Miller
The author must be a DemocRat then.
Yeah, Republicans/Cons always report the absolute 100% factual truth. If you don't believe it, they'll append a remark saying that their reporting is "the truth" or "the facts," just to, uh, reinforce their belief, or something.
Of course, you're just making another Trump-style stupid false equivalence argument: "Them, too! Them, too!" He learned that in kindergarten and has been doing it ever since--when someone says you've done something wrong, immediately accuse your accuser of doing the same thing. The idea is that the accuser will be momentarily distracted and forced to defend himself.
Trump's been raving and calling everyone involved in the impeachment inquiry a "crook" and a "traitor." Why does he do that? To distract everyone from his own crookedness and treason.
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Seemingly providing more anecdotal evidence that the Covid-19 outbreak was caused by an accidental leak of a bio-engineered virus and not by some freak of nature in Wuhan's market, China's Communist Party has issued a serious "Wartime Order" demanding more care and containment be taken with virus handling. Specifically:
"“Strengthen laboratory management and resolutely put an end to the theft, leakage, and loss of pathogenic bacteria (poisons) and various samples...”
. . . . scientists have expressed concern about China's ability to safely monitor this BSL-4 lab in Wuhan since it opened in 2017
“an open culture is important to keeping BSL-4 labs safe, and he questions how easy this will be in China, where society emphasizes hierarchy. ‘Diversity of viewpoint, flat structures where everyone feels free to speak up and openness of information are important.'”
This lab is at most 20 miles from the wet market where the virus had been assumed to have jumped from animal to human. expressed concern about China's ability to safely monitor this BSL-4 lab in Wuhan since it opened in 2017
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Oh, and by the way the Bejing CDC Party Committee has issued a "Wartime Status Order" to try to contain the spread of the virus.
This is jes' beginnin' to look like it might be somtin' serious. -DD
