The US has more than 400 quarantined on a cruise ship in Japan but I am not sure its the same one. But I agree with you more than stories like this the real story is the numbers that seem to be climbing exponentially.

Number of Coronavirus Cases on Cruise Ship Doubles

https://www.thedailybeast.com/coronavirus-cases-on-princess-cruise-ship-double?ref=home

And I still have to wonder if we are getting the whole story out of China because this sounds really bad.

Chinese Province Bans Funerals and Locks People in Their Own Homes, Says Report

https://www.thedailybeast.com/coron...eople-in-their-own-homes-says-report?ref=home

 

Again this is more anecdotal than the kind of really useful information @slutwolf is posting but I just found it sadly ironic.

Chinese Doctor Who Warned About Coronavirus Outbreak Dies

https://www.thedailybeast.com/docto...-about-new-coronavirus-outbreak-dies?ref=home

 

From post #131

"When the National Health Commission announces the numbers, they're already two days old," the doctor said. "

 

The Chinese crew have been issued with phone cards and beer.

The beer is not Corona!

Thinskin

 

Wow, this guy paints a grim picture.


Scientist Who Simulated Global Coronavirus Outbreak 3 Months Ago Makes Chilling Statement

The simulation showed how a global coronavirus (not 2019-nCoV) outbreak could potentially kill hundreds of millions of people.


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(TMU) — A senior scientist who participated in a simulation of the global impact of a coronavirus outbreak has stated that “the cat is out of the bag” when it comes to the virus and that China is unlikely to contain its spread.

Eric Toner, Senior Scholar with the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and Senior Scientist in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, said during an interview with CNBC that China’s efforts to contain the current outbreak of the rapidly spreading upper-respiratory illness known as 2019-nCoV are “unlikely to be effective.”


Three months ago Toner, along with the World Economic Forum and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, took part in a simulation called Event 201 centered around a fictional coronavirus (not 2019-nCoV) named CAPS that could potentially kill hundreds of millions of people under the right circumstances.

https://themindunleashed.com/2020/01/scientist-simulated-global-coronavirus-outbreak.html

 

Wowa
Just heard a report

"it is reported up to a hundred people (on Diamond Princesses) are showing signs of symptoms"

If this turns out to be correct , all I can say is
"Holy Shit"

1 - 10 - 20 - 120

this is exactly my concern in post #140

 

Here we go
(talking of truth)


A Chinese doctor who was detained by the communist government for sounding the alarm about the deadly coronavirus outbreak
" is clinging to life",
claims the hospital treating him.

The new report is at odds with earlier claims he had died.

"In the fight against the epidemic of the new coronavirus pneumonia, Li Wenliang, an ophthalmologist of our hospital, was unfortunately infected. He is currently in critical condition and we are trying our best to rescue him," Wuhan Central Hospital said in a social media post just after midnight amid conflicting reports about Li's fate.

Earlier Chinese media reports said the 34-year-old Li had died and the news was reported around the world.

(59 minutes ago)

 

Here is a perfect illustration of what I have been alluding to ,
re the hierarchy system , corruption , and the fear it generates ,
and why it all got out of hand because of it ,
and why
THE BUCK STOPS FIRMLY AT THE TOP.


The police followed up in the state-run Xinhua News Agency with a chilling warning.

"The police call on all citizens to

not fabricate rumors,
not spread rumors,
not believe rumors,"
the Wuhan authorities said, adding that

they encouraged web users to

"jointly build a harmonious, clear and bright cyberspace."
which all translates to ,
do not say anything negative or you will be in deep doggy do
Bad press is just rumours.

As authorities cracked down<, the outbreak

was quickly worsening <

amid an information vacuum. <

Wang Guangbao, a surgeon and popular science writer in eastern China, later said

the speculation about a SARS-like virus was rampant around Jan. 1 within medical circles,

>>but the detentions dissuaded many, including himself, from speaking openly about it.<<


"The eight posters getting seized made all of us doctors feel we were at risk",
he said.

As ye sow
so shall ye reap

 

Yeah, the Chinese government has always been so honest, open and candid....

 

and it seems they're not learning

The Chinese ambassador in London telling it's not that bad ,
and
"they have it under control"

Oh really ,
so are they "controlling the increase" , to keep it around 100% every 5 days ?

Gee I hope they don't loose "control" in that case.
or
Is this their secret population control initiative ?
or perhaps emergency inflation "control" ?


Apart from having most of the population scared shitless , there's no evidence they have any control over the outbreak.
Just control over their poor hapless guinea pigs.

 

authorities in Wuhan
were ordered to immediately round up all coronavirus infected for mass quarantine camps,

with a senior Chinese official describing the deadly outbreak as
"wartime conditions".

Yep they got'em under control alright
Though their disaprovin
keep'em doagies movin

Rollin Rollin Rollin
Raawwwhiiide
Move 'em on, head 'em up
Head 'em up, move 'em on , rawhide
Cut 'em out, ride 'em in
Ride 'em in, cut 'em out
Cut 'em out, ride 'em in, rawhide

 

It is now reported another 41 have tested positive
bringing the total confirmed cases on the ship to 61

 

Just more of the same
nothing changed
except it looks like they figure now that licenced thuggery will control it

 

"Those fat officials who live on public money, may you die from a snowstorm," wrote another Weibo user in a comment that was later scrubbed.

Meanwhile the hashtag "we demand freedom of speech" was censored.

 

700 deaths
34,562 infected.

China, we have a problem.

 

The environment needs to clean the foul pestilence of the destructive humans off of it.

 

Some pretty scary possibilities

I wouldn't call them predictions.
They are just what experience , and modeling of experience and history shows could be.
Only time will tell of course

* * *
China reported 31,161 cases in mainland China in its update on Friday. The rise of 3,143 was the lowest daily increase since at least Tuesday.

Earlier this week however, scientific research predicted coronavirus cases in China will double every six days,

with some experts suggesting it will never be contained.
so it may become like the common cold (or flu)
always with us , doing the rounds ?

I could see that possibility , if it keeps spreading at similar rates.
When you get to so many cases , and so many carriers , even when you get a vaccine , how do you ever catch up with everybody over such a wide area ?

According to The Lancet,
more than 75,000 people may have been infected with coronavirus in Wuhan — far exceeding the official number of cases reported by Chinese officials.

The scientific journal's estimation,
that up to 300,000 people in Wuhan could now be infected with the virus,

is based on modelling which indicated each infected person would infect an average of 2.68 others.

The report also estimated the Wuhan epidemic would peak in April if there was no breakthrough to reduce transmission.
Well it seems the Chinese have found a possible means of reducing transmission ,
send out groups of thugs to drag people off to imprisonment ,
in any enclosed space they can find..

Of course conveniently , no-one will know how many are thrown in there ,
or how many will eventually come out.

They may have to completely shut down all social media and internet , to stop the flow of "rumours'.

 

Slut. The problem with the infected stats and quarantined people is that they have no idea how many of them are actually dead because there's 12 million of tbem. The rumor is its somewhere round 2500 dead.

 

Here's a thaught !

Can we somehow infect elephant ivory , rhino horns , bears gaul bladders , tigers bits , and monkeys brains with a deadly disease ,
to stop the fuckers eating , using and creating demand for them ?

That would be a great advance.

Eat endangered species and die fuckers.

The poor old pangolin is the most traded wild meat in the world , apparently ,
and the Chinese pangolin
is/are listed as critically endangered.

So why are they even eating any ?

If you Chinese want exotic meat , eat your pandas , if you must.

See how that'd go down .

I have little (or no) sympathy for miserable selfish people , anywhere.

 

China coronavirus outbreak: All the latest updates
Death toll on the mainland rises to 811 with two foreigners - a Japanese and an American - among the dead.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020...ges-800-infections-mount-200209003721741.html