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dr lopez
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grandpa in the ICU .. doctors giving him a 50/50 chance. oof. miserable.

danshoebridge
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Well after 7 days in a row treating 40-odd patients daily without any available PPE I unsurprisingly came down with coronavirus symptoms on Monday. All feels a bit weird at home as my wife (who also

Goiter Sanchez
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Thanks Jules!

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At critical turning points, Chinese authorities put secrecy and order ahead of openly confronting the growing crisis and risking public alarm or political embarrassment.

 

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The government’s initial handling of the epidemic allowed the virus to gain a tenacious hold. At critical moments, officials chose to put secrecy and order ahead of openly confronting the growing crisis to avoid public alarm and political embarrassment.

A reconstruction of the crucial seven weeks between the appearance of the first symptoms in early December and the government’s decision to lock down the city, based on two dozen interviews with Wuhan residents, doctors and officials, on government statements and on Chinese media reports, points to decisions that delayed a concerted public health offensive.

In those weeks, the authorities silenced doctors and others for raising red flags. They played down the dangers to the public, leaving the city’s 11 million residents unaware they should protect themselves. They closed a food market where the virus was believed to have started, but didn’t broadly curb the wildlife trade.

Their reluctance to go public, in part, played to political motivations as local officials prepared for their annual congresses in January. Even as cases climbed, officials declared repeatedly that there had likely been no more infections.

By not moving aggressively to warn the public and medical professionals, public health experts say, the Chinese government lost one of its best chances to keep the disease from becoming an epidemic.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/01/world/asia/china-coronavirus.html

 

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On 2/1/2020 at 12:29 AM, Mesh Gear Fox said:

[...] racists and bogans here who seem to know very little about the virus and refer to all chinese as "asians"  [...]

Personally, I think it would be far worse to refer to all Asians as "Chinese".

Also, it might be wise to leave Bogan Raceynski out of this. Don't mess with the Polish!

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They're all Europeans!

 

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Candiru Grand Master

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I can’t tell what country an Asian person is from, usually. I was flattered when I was in Europe and people started speaking to me in Dutch, Danish, German, etc because it means they think I’m Mexican. Culture. Try it on. 

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Logistical and technical analysis of the origins of the Wuhan Coronavirus (2019-nCoV)

https://harvardtothebighouse.com/2020/01/31/logistical-and-technical-analysis-of-the-origins-of-the-wuhan-coronavirus-2019-ncov/?fbclid=IwAR2exGv60lBq2ZvQWzFr_pU9foPV5NMrQFybaC8RluoxsdBtkcfSONYf1wk

 

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Given the above facts, either:

– A coronavirus spontaneously mutated and jumped to humans at a wet market or deep in some random bat cave which just so happened to be 20 miles from China’s only BSL-4 virology lab, a virus with an unusually slippery never-before-seen genome that’s evading zoological classification, and whose spike-protein region which allows it to enter host cells appears most like a bio-engineered commercial product, that somehow managed to infect its first three and roughly one-third of its initial victims despite them not being connected to this market, and then be so fined-tuned to humans that it’s gone on to create the single greatest public health crisis in Chinese history with approaching 100 million citizens locked-down or quarantined – also causing Mongolia to close its border with its largest trading partner for the first time in modern history.

– Or, 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 2019-nCov – into their population, and now the world. As would be expected, this virus appears to have been bio-engineered at the spike-protein genes which was already done at UNC to make an extraordinarily virulent coronavirus. Chinese hesitancy to disclose the full story about what’s going on are because they want the scales to be even since they’re now facing a severe pandemic. No facts point against this conclusion.

 

 

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20 hours ago, ignatius said:

Logistical and technical analysis of the origins of the Wuhan Coronavirus (2019-nCoV)

https://harvardtothebighouse.com/2020/01/31/logistical-and-technical-analysis-of-the-origins-of-the-wuhan-coronavirus-2019-ncov/?fbclid=IwAR2exGv60lBq2ZvQWzFr_pU9foPV5NMrQFybaC8RluoxsdBtkcfSONYf1wk

 

 

 

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more sad news about the coronavirus:

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Disney expects the coronavirus outbreak to force it to shut its popular theme parks in China for two months, shaving $175m from operating income in the current quarter.

Nike has warned it expects to sustain a meaningful blow from the coronavirus outbreak as the sportswear maker announced plans to close half its stores in China.

https://www.ft.com/content/22ddfe94-d7bd-3fb4-b101-1a286fa31e43

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auxien Grand Master

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43 minutes ago, Nebraska said:

more sad news about the coronavirus:

https://www.ft.com/content/22ddfe94-d7bd-3fb4-b101-1a286fa31e43

starting to wonder if the conspiracy theories should pivot towards America being the place that developed and released the virus

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Bodhidharma Rising Star

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not actually ded btw he was just pranking https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-51403795

oops wrong link lol https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-li-wenliang-chinese-doctor-whistleblower-coronavirus-critical-illness-wuhan/

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ignatius Grand Master

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dude on the BBC just said 30,000 infected is just the tip of the ice berg and it's probably closer to 100,000

a new born baby was born w/the virus. 

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