The Chinese dictatorship handles scandals over food production the same way. Food produced in China is frequently unhealthful. It has bacteria in it, and/or dangerous chemicals. This is because it is less expensive to produce unsafe food than safe food. Whenever things get really bad, like a bunch of people getting sick or dying from bad food, there is an investigation. Several people are executed. Things go on as before.

When dictators are discredited we sometimes get democratic reform in a country. That is how democratic governments were established in Taiwan (AKA, Nationalist China) and in South Korea.

 

This thread is the best news source I can find on this virus.

Thanks everyone.

 

242 died on Wednesday
more than double the previous day

 

Xi pledges to minimise impact of virus, maintain momentum of economy

China will definitely be able to minimise the impact of the coronavirus outbreak and will maintain the development momentum of the country's economy, President Xi Jinping said on Thursday, state media reported.

Really ?
What's he planning ?
Turning isolation and quarantine camps into slave labour centers ?

Ah
is that what they mean by having it under control

Hey , but what the heck ,
what difference will a hundred thousand disappeared workers make , among a billion

*#@

Second citizen journalist in Wuhan vanishes: activists
A second citizen journalist reporting on the epidemic in Wuhan has disappeared, activists said.

£#@*@

North Korea will impose a month-long quarantine on all foreign visitors and others suspected of having COVID-19, the official Korean Central News Agency said on Thursday.

The decision to extend the quarantine period to 30 days

" was based on research studies suggesting the incubation period of the virus could be as long as 24 days".

 

on Diamond Princesses

44 new cases were detected from another 221 new tests.
They raise the number of infections detected on the Diamond Princess
to 218,
in addition to a quarantine officer who also tested positive for the virus.

 

Coronavirus Bioweapon?

The Wuhan institute has studied coronaviruses in the past, including the strain that causes Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, or SARS, H5N1 influenza virus, Japanese encephalitis, and dengue. Researchers at the institute also studied the germ that causes anthrax – a biological agent once developed in Russia.

“Coronaviruses (particularly SARS) have been studied in the institute and are probably held therein,” said Dany Shoham, a former Israeli military intelligence officer who has studied Chinese biowarfare. He said. “SARS is included within the Chinese BW program, at large, and is dealt with in several pertinent facilities.”

James Giordano, a neurology professor at Georgetown University and senior fellow in Biowarfare at the U.S. Special Operations Command, said China’s growing investment in bio-science, looser ethics around gene-editing and other cutting-edge technology and integration between government and academia raise the spectre of such pathogens being weaponized.

That could mean an offensive agent, or a modified germ let loose by proxies, for which only China has the treatment or vaccine. “This is not warfare, per se,” he said. “But what it’s doing is leveraging the capability to act as global saviour, which then creates various levels of macro and micro economic and bio-power dependencies.”

China’s Biological Warfare Program

In a 2015 academic paper, Shoham – of Bar-Ilan’s Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies – asserts that more than 40 Chinese facilities are involved in bio-weapon production.


China’s Academy of Military Medical Sciences actually developed an Ebola drug – called JK-05 — but little has been divulged about it or the defence facility’s possession of the virus, prompting speculation its Ebola cells are part of China’s bio-warfare arsenal, Shoham told the National Post.

Ebola is classified as a “category A” bioterrorism agent by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, meaning it could be easily transmitted from person to person, would result in high death rates and “might cause panic.” The CDC lists Nipah as a category C substance, a deadly emerging pathogen that could be engineered for mass dissemination.

China’s Biological Warfare Program is believed to be in an advanced stage that includes research and development, production and weaponization capabilities. Its current inventory is believed to include the full range of traditional chemical and biological agents with a wide variety of delivery systems including artillery rockets, aerial bombs, sprayers, and short-range ballistic missiles.

 

Saw my first mask in the wild yesterday. :/

 

What I heard last night about , satellite images scared the hell out of me. If it’s true. China Things don’t sound good

 

We don't need satellites to tell us it not good.

We can see it on that old fashioned thing called a tellywatzit ,
and pictures on our recent bodily adornment , if we get it off porn long enuf

It looks horrendous to me ,
but then I'm not a Chinaman sheeple.

 

I see now things have really got out of hand , and the terrible decision making has become so obvious ,

Supreme Leader Mr Xi is no longer claiming to be leading the charge , "personally coordinating the response"

He has suddenly become " just a part of a collective"

Yeah right

Truth ,
he's running out of easy people to blame and fire ,
and it's still not getting any better ,
so soon ,
he'll have to start firing people he's sent in to fix "the problem" his henchmen , in another round of purges.

He is positioning himself , so that when the buck finally has to stop , it'll be at the feet of
"the collective"
not at his door personally ,

hoping to survive ,
if the virus dosen't get him
(which in a way would be poetic justice)

 

The World Health Organization is seeking more information from China about

the large numbers of health workers falling sick because of the coronavirus after it was revealed

1,760 of them have tested positive and
six have died.


And how many , whistleblowers and all ,
are DISAPPEARED ?

 

The head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the new coronavirus, which has killed almost 1,400 people and is still spreading in China,

could be around for at least another year.

With the Chinese government reporting 121 more deaths and more than 5,000 new confirmed and suspected cases Thursday alone,

the illness dubbed COVID-19 doesn't appear to have peaked.

&_£#@*&

U.K. officials warn people who went to London conference of virus case
About 250 people who went to a conference in London last week have been notified that one of the attendees has been diagnosed with the coronavirus sweeping through China.

BBC News said England's public health authority had contacted those who were at the February 6 conference on buses and public transport and told them if they experience any cold or flu-like symptoms before February 20, to remain indoors, avoid contact with others and call the health service.

 

.
State Councillor Wang Yi, who also serves as China's foreign minister,
acknowledged the infection, now known as COVID-19, was a huge challenge,
but defended Beijing's management of the epidemic

and lashed out at the "overreaction" of some countries.
your kidding me
While China has sent out gangs of thugs to drag victims out of thier homes ,
and throws them in stadium prisons

"Through our efforts the epidemic is overall under control,"
Your 'avin a laff i'nt ya

he told the Reuters News Agency on Friday.

Only a Chinese sheeple could keep a straight face while making those statements.

Probably the most Out Of Control epidemic the world has seen since about 1918

 

I'm still going with my last week's post that there are 50+thousand already dead. Truthful that's what the Sulphur and hot spots are the cremated body's

 

This probably falls into the fear mongering category but there is a rumor spreading around town that no matter what you do don't pop the bubble wrap used to pack items for shipment. And popping the plastic bubbles is actually kind of a fun thing to do, especially for children. But according to one rumor the air inside comes from China and it could contain the COVID-19 virus. And there are two variations of this rumor. One says don't pop the bubble wrap on any packages coming from China. But an expanded version is don't pop any bubble wrap on any packages because most bubble wrap is made in China and sold to the world. I have no idea if any of that is true but it just goes to show how fearful people are becoming.

And apparently the US is finally getting worried about US citizens that are stuck abroad. It would look bad if they just started dying off in quarantine.

US to evacuate Americans as virus cases rise on quarantined ship stuck in Japan

*That seems really ominous to me. Does that mean at some point they might keep US citizens who have traveled abroad from re-entering the US?

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/02/us-to-evacuate-americans-as-virus-cases-rise-on-quarantined-ship/

 

I understand that some people have recovered from this virus. I would like to know what the recovery rate has been, and how long it takes to recover. I also believe that this years's flu epidemic has been quite a bit more contagious, and quite a bit more lethal.

 

Unfortunately this virus is going to kill a lot of vulnerable and especially immune compromised people!

One of the reasons is we cannot be honest with each other!

Sad!

Thinskin

 

It seems way worse than sad to me. Which it is. Its sad. But also dangerous. We can only base our decisions on the information we receive. And if people, and countries, cannot be honest with each other then decisions are based on faulty information. Which means they cannot be the best decisions possible. And right now that worries me more than anything. The fear and ignorance is spreading faster than the disease which could lead to knee jerk reactions that won't work.

 

I have read unofficial reports of 10,000 dead in Wuhan, China.

Of course you will not hear these kind of numbers from the Chinese's government.

Any reporter publishing anything about the Coronavirus without government approval seems to disappear....

 

LOL , I gotta laugh at bubble wrap.
umm
what's the chance of it having been made since the outbreak ?
What's the chance of it being made in a contaminated environment ?

THEN
how long do virus survive in a dry uninhabitable environment ?

But never mind , you should not open anything made and or wrapped or contained in China.
It might have a droplet of sneeze , or even a whole chough within.

Better be safe than sorry .

Now throw all those kids toys n dolls n boats n thingy out quick , before they break them and release lurgies ,
along with bottles of shampoo etc.
any car tyres (before they get a puncture) ,
Well actually , just toss out everything made in china ,
(and Singapore Vietnam Malaysia Australia the UK France the US Canada Taiwan Korea or Egypt)
that'll solve it