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For an atheist communist state that loves waging war against Islamic fundamentalists, they do sure share the same butthurt over Danish cartoons.
Wuhan Coronavirus: Megathread - Got too big
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Aw man the based Danes are at it again. Brave after doing the muhammed cartoons! Also fuck China.
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This!
Especially where I live which happens to be 30 mins from the ghetto. This is like saying please come and rob me. If you post you have stock.
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When’s the last time entire cities were locked down by a military to prevent a flu? The United States government is closing our consulate and advising all Americans in Wuhan to leave and has been subtly hinting americans in China gtfo. There’s a level 3 cdc advisory on the entire country of China, not just Wuhan. That’s pretty serious shit for just a little flu.
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I guess that depends on what you mean by Nothingburger.
We live in fully globalized economy. Every few years, things that make people sick suddenly spread around the world very quickly. They mostly come from China, and China has very different standards for sanitation than the West. In a way, we're all living in China right now.
I'm not sure it matters how many people die, the fact this happens is what's scary. If some crazed lunatic wanted to wipe out humanity, they can do it through Amazon.
This is the important graph. WuFlu is deadlier than MERS and KIVU, it will surpass SARS before it's all over.
SARS cost the world economy Billions. Think about it for a second, Wuhan is commonly called China's Chicago. The entire city is shut down and will be for a while.
There's a cost to all this.
This whole fucking article is propaganda.The CBC just posted an article refuting claims that about the stolen viruses from the Winnipeg lab.
Anybody who has followed Kyle Bass or Zero Hedge knows that there are the biggest Happeningfags outside of /pol/, so a healthy mistrust of what they say is in order.
But notice how they follow up that because of this "social panic" there are "calls to ban travellers from China from entering North American or Europe", which could have done something, if done sooner, I think. But that would hateful and cost us those sweet Yuan, so nope.
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Online claims that Chinese scientists stole coronavirus from Winnipeg lab have 'no factual basis'
A CBC News report was distorted to create conspiracy theory circulating online
Karen Pauls, Jeff Yates · CBC News · Posted: Jan 27, 2020 6:21 PM CT | Last Updated: 10 hours ago
This photo of medical staff attending to patients was uploaded to the Weibo social media platform by the Central Hospital of Wuhan on Saturday. The city of Wuhan is the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak. (The Central Hospital of Wuhan via Weibo/Reuters)
The Public Health Agency of Canada is denying any connection between the National Microbiology Lab in Winnipeg, two scientists who were escorted out of the building last summer, and the coronavirus outbreak in China.
Baseless stories claiming that the two scientists are Chinese spies and that they smuggled the coronavirus to China's only Level 4 lab in Wuhan last year have been spreading on all major social media platforms and on conspiracy theorist blogs. One article from a conspiracy blog was shared more than 6,000 times on Facebook on Monday.
The story even made its way on Chinese-owned social media app TikTok, where a video pushing these claims was watched more than 350,000 times.
"This is misinformation and there is no factual basis for claims being made on social media," Eric Morrissette, chief of media relations for Health Canada and the Public Health Agency of Canada said in response to queries by CBC News.
The conspiracy theory seems to be based on a distorted reading of reporting from CBC News published last summer. One of the first mentions occurred Saturday on Twitter, where businessman Kyle Bass claimed that "a husband and wife Chinese spy team were recently removed from a Level 4 Infectious Disease facility in Canada for sending pathogens to the Wuhan facility."
The conspiracy theory seems to be based on a distorted reading of reporting from CBC News published last summer. One of the first mentions occurred Saturday on Twitter, where businessman Kyle Bass claimed that 'a husband and wife Chinese spy team were recently removed from a Level 4 Infectious Disease facility in Canada for sending pathogens to the Wuhan facility.'
In the tweet, which was shared over 12,000 times, he linked to a story CBC News broke in July, revealing that a researcher, her husband, and some of their graduate students, were escorted out of the National Microbiology Lab (NML) in Winnipeg amid an RCMP investigation into what's being described as a possible "policy breach" and "administrative matter."
The RCMP and Health Canada have both stressed that there was no danger for public safety.
CBC reporting never claimed the two scientists were spies, or that they brought any version of the coronavirus to the lab in Wuhan.
Experts like Fuyuki Kurasawa, director of the Global Digital Citizenship Lab at York University, say disinformation about the coronavirus is creating a 'social panic' online. (Derek Hooper/CBC News)
Experts say the disinformation is creating a "social panic" online.
"The broader damage is that there grows a mistrust toward both government authorities, public health officials, the media, authoritative sources of media, and there there becomes a social media environment where speculation, rumour and conspiracy theories take over and wash out the factual information that is being promoted online."
This claim that China smuggled the coronavirus out of a Canadian lab has been circulating on Twitter. (CBC)
Kurasawa is already seeing that spread from the online world to the real world.
"Individuals will take it on themselves to become vigilantes, where they'll try to spot someone who supposedly is either holding the truth about some hidden truth about the coronavirus or a person who may be a carrier or supposed carrier of the virus because they appear to have certain symptoms, and then they'll ask the general public to take matters into own hands," he says.
Kernels of truth in disinformation
Dr. Xiangguo Qiu is a medical doctor and virologist from Tianjin, China, who came to Canada for graduate studies in 1996. Qiu is still affiliated with the university there and has brought in many students over the years to help with her work. She helped develop ZMapp, a treatment for the deadly Ebola virus which killed more than 11,000 people in West Africa between 2014-2016.
Her husband Keding Cheng works at the Winnipeg lab as a biologist. He has published research papers on HIV infections, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), E. coli infections and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
One month later, CBC discovered that scientists at the NML sent live Ebola and Henipah viruses to Beijing on an Air Canada flight March 31. The Public Health Agency of Canada says all federal policies were followed. PHAC will not confirm if the March 31 shipment is part of the RCMP investigation.
This social media posting appeared on Weibo, China's equivalent of Twitter. (CBC)
Contrary to posts on Twitter, the coronavirus was not part of this shipment. And there is no confirmation Qiu or Cheng were the scientists behind the shipment.
In another followup story using travel documents obtained in Access to Information requests, CBC reported that Qiu made at least five trips to China in 2017-18, including one to train scientists and technicians at China's newly certified Level 4 lab.
She was invited to visit the Wuhan National Biosafety Laboratory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences twice a year for two years, for up to two weeks each time. The lab does research with the most deadly pathogens.
Heidi Tworek, assistant professor in international history at University of British Columbia, says governments and public health agencies have to be more effective at communicating to the public because disinformation will spread faster than facts. (Glen Kugelstadt/CBC News )
PHAC has denied any connection between the RCMP investigation, Qiu's visits to Wuhan or any Canadian research, with the coronavirus outbreak.
However, PHAC would not comment on the current status of Qiu and Cheng, citing privacy reasons.
Communicate more effectively
Heidi Tworek, assistant professor in international history at the University of British Columbia, says governments and public health authorities need to do a better job of communicating facts at times like this, including in the languages of the communities impacted.
"It's incredibly challenging during fast-moving outbreaks of any disease to balance between information to keep the public safe and prevent something from becoming a massive epidemic and also trying to provide truthful information and also providing enough so you don't end up with a vacuum, which is where disinformation can flourish," Tworek says.
"We've seen in previous outbreaks it's been difficult to get this right, but I'd emphasize this is actually a crucial element of what we need to be thinking about into the future — how do we actually communicate well and swiftly with general public with all types of health scares? This will not be the last time we face disinformation during a potential epidemic."
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I was following the RCMP investigation before this all started. The sample sent to Wuhan we being sent out of Canada in a sock. There's no way the researchers were legit, they were looking to score some money for delivering a great weapon to the CCP.
There's no reason to trot out all these experts to say the two things are not correlated. This is an attempt by some government to control public opinion, probably for the sake of preserving the economy. Reading shit like this makes me furious.
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That's the same paper that touched off Muslim riots by drawing Mohammad a while back, fyi.
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God bless Denmark, tbh.
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Not that I'm claiming Corona-chan to be a nothingburger, but it does take longer to ensure an infected patient is more or less recovered from the virus than it does for an immunocompromised or elderly patient to die from the same. It's too early in the game to tell how deadly 2019-nCoV is, especially when newly-confirmed cases will have to wait some two weeks(?) before they can be told they're out of the woods. Just my 2 cents.
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"should we worry about saving out people from a biological weapon we accidentally unleashed? nah lets instead yell at some danes for making fun of us"
probably the most chinese thing i've ever seen
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You have chance and you fucked it up by not posting Wubat
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We have confirmation of h2h transmission outside of China.
Coronavirus: Japan and Germany confirm patients who caught disease did not visit China
Nearly all cases come from Wuhan area
Samuel Osborne @SamuelOsborne93 1 hour ago
Two people from Japan and Germany who had contracted coronavirus had not visited the area in China where the deadly viral outbreak originated, authorities have confirmed.
One of the patients was a Japanese tour bus driver in his 60s in the city of Nara who had driven two groups of Chinese tourists who had come from Wuhan earlier this month.
He was diagnosed with pneumonia on Saturday and has now been hospitalised.
Another man in his 40s who lives in Wuhan and arrived in Japan on 20 January was also confirmed to have contracted the virus, the ministry said.
The ministry said it was checking on people who had been in contact with the two new patients. The latest infections bring the total number of confirmed Japanese cases to six.
It comes as Germany’s first case of the virus was believed to have been infected by a Chinese colleague who visited his workplace.
The 33-year-old from the Starnberg area south of Munich is in isolation as a precaution, officials in Bavaria said. They said his condition was good.
The man took part in a training session at his workplace last Tuesday which also included an employee of the same company visiting from China, said Andreas Zapf, the head of Bavaria’s office for health and food safety.
The woman, who had not previously shown any symptoms, flew home on Thursday and went to a doctor after feeling ill on the flight, Mr Zapf said. She then tested positive for the new virus.
The woman lives in Shanghai, but had been visited a few days earlier by her parents, who come from the worst-affected Wuhan area.
On Monday, the German company was informed of the positive test, and informed authorities and employees.
An employee who had been at the training session came forward and said he had experienced bronchitis-like symptoms over the weekend, though they had receded and he came to work on Monday.
Authorities decided when they received positive test results on Monday evening to admit him to a hospital and put him in isolation for monitoring.
Auto parts supplier Webasto confirmed it was the company involved and said the man works at its headquarters in Stockdorf, south of Munich. It cancelled all travel to and from China for the next two weeks and said employees at Stockdorf are free to work from home this week.
The coronavirus has infected thousands of people in China. Nearly all of the cases outside China are among people who recently arrived from there.
Additional reporting by agencies
Coronavirus: Japan and Germany confirm patients who caught disease did not visit China
Nearly all cases come from Wuhan area
Samuel Osborne @SamuelOsborne93 1 hour ago
Two people from Japan and Germany who had contracted coronavirus had not visited the area in China where the deadly viral outbreak originated, authorities have confirmed.
One of the patients was a Japanese tour bus driver in his 60s in the city of Nara who had driven two groups of Chinese tourists who had come from Wuhan earlier this month.
He was diagnosed with pneumonia on Saturday and has now been hospitalised.
Another man in his 40s who lives in Wuhan and arrived in Japan on 20 January was also confirmed to have contracted the virus, the ministry said.
The ministry said it was checking on people who had been in contact with the two new patients. The latest infections bring the total number of confirmed Japanese cases to six.
It comes as Germany’s first case of the virus was believed to have been infected by a Chinese colleague who visited his workplace.
The 33-year-old from the Starnberg area south of Munich is in isolation as a precaution, officials in Bavaria said. They said his condition was good.
The man took part in a training session at his workplace last Tuesday which also included an employee of the same company visiting from China, said Andreas Zapf, the head of Bavaria’s office for health and food safety.
The woman, who had not previously shown any symptoms, flew home on Thursday and went to a doctor after feeling ill on the flight, Mr Zapf said. She then tested positive for the new virus.
The woman lives in Shanghai, but had been visited a few days earlier by her parents, who come from the worst-affected Wuhan area.
On Monday, the German company was informed of the positive test, and informed authorities and employees.
An employee who had been at the training session came forward and said he had experienced bronchitis-like symptoms over the weekend, though they had receded and he came to work on Monday.
Authorities decided when they received positive test results on Monday evening to admit him to a hospital and put him in isolation for monitoring.
Auto parts supplier Webasto confirmed it was the company involved and said the man works at its headquarters in Stockdorf, south of Munich. It cancelled all travel to and from China for the next two weeks and said employees at Stockdorf are free to work from home this week.
The coronavirus has infected thousands of people in China. Nearly all of the cases outside China are among people who recently arrived from there.
Additional reporting by agencies
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I'm already preparing for my disappointment when this disease doesn't wipe out at least 10% of the bug people living in major population centers.
It would have been the opportunity to see the Twitter blue checkmarks live-tweet their own demise to the merriment of those in the flyover states.
It would have been the opportunity to see the Twitter blue checkmarks live-tweet their own demise to the merriment of those in the flyover states.
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brilliant thinking on the protesters side, a lethal virus is going around and to dab on those chinese haters they're going to destroy quarantine zones and let the virus spread.
honestly fuck china and fuck hong kong
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Another post index!
○ Coronavirus death toll rises to 81, more Chinese businesses shut down (@Ahriman post)
○ Japan lists 2019-nCoV as "government verified virus", announces that they are happy to help China combat the disease, and an article skeptical about the origins of the virus: suspects first case in early October, away from Seafood Market (@AltisticRight post)
○ Ebola and coronavirus samples sent from Canadian lab to China (@Ivan Shatov post)
○ Ukrainian news site Depo.Kyiv reports a case of coronavirus, but not 2019-nCoV, doesn't correct their article (@NotSendingTheirBest post)
○ Second confirmed case of coronavirus in Toronto (@canadiancxnt post)
○ New cases of coronavirus frequently appearing in Chinese provinces (@Computer Boy post)
○ Cambodia reports first case of coronavirus (@Computer Boy post)
○ Africa on alert for first suspected case of coronavirus (@Cutlass Supreme post)
○ DHS distributes warning memo about coronavirus (@Ivan Shatov post)
○ Traditional Chinese Medicine scammers already trying to profit off of the coronavirus outbreak (@AltisticRight post)
○ Dow Jones plummets: investor confidence shaken over coronavirus outbreak (@Pickle Dick post)
○ Malaysia bans visas for Chinese travelers from coronavirus-affected areas (@Kane Lives post)
○ Ndemic Creations, makers of the Plague Inc. video game, reminds players it is not an authoritative source on the coronavirus (@reptile baht spaniard rid post)
○ Canada confirms that the wife of their first coronavirus patient has also contracted the virus (@Kaede Did Nothing Wrong post)
○ 01/27/2020 CDC Telebriefing on the coronavirus (@Cutlass Supreme post)
○ New South Wales Health press conference: situation evolving, but their stance is that the coronavirus is only contagious after symptoms appear (@cruisecontrol4cool post)
○ Rooms for new Chinese hospitals appear to have welded bars on the windows and lock from the outside (@Ellesse_warrior post)
○ Spain, Portugal and The Netherlands work to repatriate nationals from Wuhan (@Chive Turkey post)
○ UK loses track of the 1460 Chinese visitors who flew in from Wuhan, issues public request for them to "self-isolate" (@Hackallier post)
○ Virginia investigates 3 potential cases of coronavirus infection (@Ivan Shatov post)
○ Small towns in China setting up roadblocks, guarding town entrances (@Rice Is Ready post)
○ Scammers offering 'Coronavirus Homeoprophylaxis' to ward off infection (@Hackallier post)
○ Pet owners can't get into Wuhan to feed their pets, Wuhan mayor claims 5 million Wuhanese unaccounted for, Taiwan restricts exporting of n95 face masks, Philippines politician donates goods and masks to China, masks out of stock in Sydney, face masks listed on ebay at outrageous markups, TikTok persona claiming to be from Wuhan and wanting to spread the virus in Changsha, Shanghai travelers refusing to fly with Wuhan tourists, Japan to fly to Wuhan to provide medical goods, Chinese New Year extended to 9th of February in Zhejiang, coronavirus now takes only 15 minutes to diagnose instead of 3 hours, Wuxi forcibly quarantines troublesome patients, entire towns in lockdown preventing access to non-locals, and more memes. Coronavirus death toll: 82 (@AltisticRight megapost)
○ Suspected coronavirus case in Irvine revealed to not be 2019-nCoV, and all n95 masks at Home Depot in Irvine/Costa Mesa bought by Chinese man (@Jann_Hörn post)
○ Apparent order by Chinese government to search "inch by inch" for escaped Wuhan residents (@Hackallier post)
○ Up to 4 suspected cases of coronavirus in Irvine (@Jann_Hörn post)
○ 5th confirmed case of coronavirus in Singapore (@SparklyFetuses post)
○ WHO Situation report 7 drops: possible global impact raised to High (@Death Grip post)
○ Calgary Herald reports: Canadian lab sent Ebola and other deadly virus to China (@Shugo post)
○ Dow Jones closes down 1.57% amid concerns over coronavirus (@Computer Boy post)
○ Peasant in Changde donates 15k surgical masks that he was given by employer in lieu of pay (@Glad I couldn't help post)
○ The Guardian reports on anti-China sentiment in the UK amid coronavirus outbreak (@Computer Boy post)
○ Researchers think the coronavirus could have jumped from bats to cobras to humans (@Disheveled Human post)
○ CDC upgrades travel advisory for all of China to Level 3: Avoid Nonessential Travel (@ConfederateIrishman post)
○ First suspected case of coronavirus in Ecuador (@Daddy's Little Kitten post)
○ Sri Lanka reports first case of coronavirus (@Hackallier post)
○ 7 Chinese citizens with viral respiratory symptoms hospitalized in Moscow (@Hackallier post)
○ 15 residents of Toronto cleared, 19 under observation for coronavirus (@DefCon Dumb post)
○ First case of coronavirus reported in Germany (@Glad I couldn't help post)
○ Canada warns citizens to avoid all travel to Hubei province (@DefCon Dumb post)
○ San Francisco activates emergency operations center to fight coronavirus (@Ivan Shatov post)
○ Updates in China later than expected (@Computer Boy post)
○ South China Morning Post stopped updating their dashboard (@Ivan Shatov post)
○ China resumes updates (@Computer Boy post)
○ Palau banning all flights from mainland China and suspending flights from Hong Kong and Macau, and epidemiologist warns New Zealand has "responsibility to protect the pacific" against coronavirus (@Glad I couldn't help post)
○ Coronavirus confirmed cases and deaths exceeding those of predictive model (@Hackallier post)
○ Update: 4295 confirmed cases of coronavirus, 106 fatalities, 855+ in serious/critical condition (@Bat Soup Reviews post)
○ China's reporting of 37 new cases in Guangdong does not match with the previous update (@Computer Boy post)
○ Local governments releasing coronavirus figures, China's National Health Commission figures already out of date (@Computer Boy post)
○ China's National Health Commission holds another press conference (@Computer Boy post)
○ Chinese 'daigou' personal shoppers expected to strain Australian health and medical supplies (@Virgo post)
○ Press conference update: report of 4400+ confirmed cases of coronavirus, 2000+ suspected cases, 4130 medical personnel from 30 medical teams headed into Wuhan (@Bat Soup Reviews post)
○ Press conference update: another report of 4500 confirmed cases, 6000 suspected cases, 900 serious/critical condition (@Menotaur post)
○ Press conference update: China confirms 10,000 cases of coronavirus (@This_is_a_Throwaway post)
○ Two suspected cases of coronavirus reported in New Hampshire (@Candida Auris post)
○ Press conference update: China stands firm in belief that coronavirus is infectious during incubation based on observations (@Menotaur post)
○ China's medical authority reiterates: coronavirus can be transmitted through touch, typically 3-7 day incubation period (@Bob's Fries post)
○ US expands screening of passengers from China at 20 airports (@This_is_a_Throwaway post)
○ Even using China's (under?)reported numbers, alarming exponential growth in infection count (@Ow The Edge post)
○ By 01/27/2020, coronavirus is still ahead of simulation predictions by 1100+ confirmed cases and 30+ deaths (@Ow The Edge post)
○ Lunar New Year festival will still proceed in Adelaide, Australia despite coronavirus fears (@MechanicusAdmin post)
○ Chinese researchers propose 'traditional Chinese medicines' that may have therapeutic effects on coronavirus for further testing (@Alto post)
Informative takes and extras:
@Tour of Italy on Chinese building engineering re: the hospitals they're quickly constructing for the outbreak
@Otterly on virology and epidemics/pandemics
@JosephStalin on how the Wuhan coronavirus situation has damaged China/Xi's reputation
@Jet Fuel Johnny on the 'crazy prepper' meme and popsicles
Dust mask/filter ratings and comparison (@Pokemonquistador2 post)
@GnomeofDoc's advice on gun safety and maintenance
@Jet Fuel Johnny's coronavirus survival guide part 3: the essentials
@Jet Fuel Johnny's timeless advice on Kiwi Farms (and survival preparation) opsec
@SparklyFetuses has archives of the CDC telebriefing and Situation reports
@ConfederateIrishman has an informative summary of the CDC telebriefing
○ Japan lists 2019-nCoV as "government verified virus", announces that they are happy to help China combat the disease, and an article skeptical about the origins of the virus: suspects first case in early October, away from Seafood Market (@AltisticRight post)
○ Ebola and coronavirus samples sent from Canadian lab to China (@Ivan Shatov post)
○ Ukrainian news site Depo.Kyiv reports a case of coronavirus, but not 2019-nCoV, doesn't correct their article (@NotSendingTheirBest post)
○ Second confirmed case of coronavirus in Toronto (@canadiancxnt post)
○ New cases of coronavirus frequently appearing in Chinese provinces (@Computer Boy post)
○ Cambodia reports first case of coronavirus (@Computer Boy post)
○ Africa on alert for first suspected case of coronavirus (@Cutlass Supreme post)
○ DHS distributes warning memo about coronavirus (@Ivan Shatov post)
○ Traditional Chinese Medicine scammers already trying to profit off of the coronavirus outbreak (@AltisticRight post)
○ Dow Jones plummets: investor confidence shaken over coronavirus outbreak (@Pickle Dick post)
○ Malaysia bans visas for Chinese travelers from coronavirus-affected areas (@Kane Lives post)
○ Ndemic Creations, makers of the Plague Inc. video game, reminds players it is not an authoritative source on the coronavirus (@reptile baht spaniard rid post)
○ Canada confirms that the wife of their first coronavirus patient has also contracted the virus (@Kaede Did Nothing Wrong post)
○ 01/27/2020 CDC Telebriefing on the coronavirus (@Cutlass Supreme post)
○ New South Wales Health press conference: situation evolving, but their stance is that the coronavirus is only contagious after symptoms appear (@cruisecontrol4cool post)
○ Rooms for new Chinese hospitals appear to have welded bars on the windows and lock from the outside (@Ellesse_warrior post)
○ Spain, Portugal and The Netherlands work to repatriate nationals from Wuhan (@Chive Turkey post)
○ UK loses track of the 1460 Chinese visitors who flew in from Wuhan, issues public request for them to "self-isolate" (@Hackallier post)
○ Virginia investigates 3 potential cases of coronavirus infection (@Ivan Shatov post)
○ Small towns in China setting up roadblocks, guarding town entrances (@Rice Is Ready post)
○ Scammers offering 'Coronavirus Homeoprophylaxis' to ward off infection (@Hackallier post)
○ Pet owners can't get into Wuhan to feed their pets, Wuhan mayor claims 5 million Wuhanese unaccounted for, Taiwan restricts exporting of n95 face masks, Philippines politician donates goods and masks to China, masks out of stock in Sydney, face masks listed on ebay at outrageous markups, TikTok persona claiming to be from Wuhan and wanting to spread the virus in Changsha, Shanghai travelers refusing to fly with Wuhan tourists, Japan to fly to Wuhan to provide medical goods, Chinese New Year extended to 9th of February in Zhejiang, coronavirus now takes only 15 minutes to diagnose instead of 3 hours, Wuxi forcibly quarantines troublesome patients, entire towns in lockdown preventing access to non-locals, and more memes. Coronavirus death toll: 82 (@AltisticRight megapost)
○ Suspected coronavirus case in Irvine revealed to not be 2019-nCoV, and all n95 masks at Home Depot in Irvine/Costa Mesa bought by Chinese man (@Jann_Hörn post)
○ Apparent order by Chinese government to search "inch by inch" for escaped Wuhan residents (@Hackallier post)
○ Up to 4 suspected cases of coronavirus in Irvine (@Jann_Hörn post)
○ 5th confirmed case of coronavirus in Singapore (@SparklyFetuses post)
○ WHO Situation report 7 drops: possible global impact raised to High (@Death Grip post)
○ Calgary Herald reports: Canadian lab sent Ebola and other deadly virus to China (@Shugo post)
○ Dow Jones closes down 1.57% amid concerns over coronavirus (@Computer Boy post)
○ Peasant in Changde donates 15k surgical masks that he was given by employer in lieu of pay (@Glad I couldn't help post)
○ The Guardian reports on anti-China sentiment in the UK amid coronavirus outbreak (@Computer Boy post)
○ Researchers think the coronavirus could have jumped from bats to cobras to humans (@Disheveled Human post)
○ CDC upgrades travel advisory for all of China to Level 3: Avoid Nonessential Travel (@ConfederateIrishman post)
○ First suspected case of coronavirus in Ecuador (@Daddy's Little Kitten post)
○ Sri Lanka reports first case of coronavirus (@Hackallier post)
○ 7 Chinese citizens with viral respiratory symptoms hospitalized in Moscow (@Hackallier post)
○ 15 residents of Toronto cleared, 19 under observation for coronavirus (@DefCon Dumb post)
○ First case of coronavirus reported in Germany (@Glad I couldn't help post)
○ Canada warns citizens to avoid all travel to Hubei province (@DefCon Dumb post)
○ San Francisco activates emergency operations center to fight coronavirus (@Ivan Shatov post)
○ Updates in China later than expected (@Computer Boy post)
○ South China Morning Post stopped updating their dashboard (@Ivan Shatov post)
○ China resumes updates (@Computer Boy post)
○ Palau banning all flights from mainland China and suspending flights from Hong Kong and Macau, and epidemiologist warns New Zealand has "responsibility to protect the pacific" against coronavirus (@Glad I couldn't help post)
○ Coronavirus confirmed cases and deaths exceeding those of predictive model (@Hackallier post)
○ Update: 4295 confirmed cases of coronavirus, 106 fatalities, 855+ in serious/critical condition (@Bat Soup Reviews post)
○ China's reporting of 37 new cases in Guangdong does not match with the previous update (@Computer Boy post)
○ Local governments releasing coronavirus figures, China's National Health Commission figures already out of date (@Computer Boy post)
○ China's National Health Commission holds another press conference (@Computer Boy post)
○ Chinese 'daigou' personal shoppers expected to strain Australian health and medical supplies (@Virgo post)
○ Press conference update: report of 4400+ confirmed cases of coronavirus, 2000+ suspected cases, 4130 medical personnel from 30 medical teams headed into Wuhan (@Bat Soup Reviews post)
○ Press conference update: another report of 4500 confirmed cases, 6000 suspected cases, 900 serious/critical condition (@Menotaur post)
○ Press conference update: China confirms 10,000 cases of coronavirus (@This_is_a_Throwaway post)
○ Two suspected cases of coronavirus reported in New Hampshire (@Candida Auris post)
○ Press conference update: China stands firm in belief that coronavirus is infectious during incubation based on observations (@Menotaur post)
○ China's medical authority reiterates: coronavirus can be transmitted through touch, typically 3-7 day incubation period (@Bob's Fries post)
○ US expands screening of passengers from China at 20 airports (@This_is_a_Throwaway post)
○ Even using China's (under?)reported numbers, alarming exponential growth in infection count (@Ow The Edge post)
○ By 01/27/2020, coronavirus is still ahead of simulation predictions by 1100+ confirmed cases and 30+ deaths (@Ow The Edge post)
○ Lunar New Year festival will still proceed in Adelaide, Australia despite coronavirus fears (@MechanicusAdmin post)
○ Chinese researchers propose 'traditional Chinese medicines' that may have therapeutic effects on coronavirus for further testing (@Alto post)
Informative takes and extras:
@Tour of Italy on Chinese building engineering re: the hospitals they're quickly constructing for the outbreak
@Otterly on virology and epidemics/pandemics
@JosephStalin on how the Wuhan coronavirus situation has damaged China/Xi's reputation
@Jet Fuel Johnny on the 'crazy prepper' meme and popsicles
Dust mask/filter ratings and comparison (@Pokemonquistador2 post)
@GnomeofDoc's advice on gun safety and maintenance
@Jet Fuel Johnny's coronavirus survival guide part 3: the essentials
@Jet Fuel Johnny's timeless advice on Kiwi Farms (and survival preparation) opsec
@SparklyFetuses has archives of the CDC telebriefing and Situation reports
@ConfederateIrishman has an informative summary of the CDC telebriefing
○ Philippines: all 27 suspected cases of coronavirus recently travelled to Wuhan, suspected cases were recorded in Metro Manila, Western Visayas, Central Visayas, Mimaropa, Eastern Visayas, Northern Mindanao (@Ow The Edge post)
○ Current treatment for coronavirus infected patients in China includes Traditional Chinese Medicinal herbs (@Alto post)
○ There is no Department of 'Diseasology', Parramatta (@HollaGemini post)
○ People's Daily posts stock photo for their 'first constructed hospital', Shiyan changes all traffic lights to red, coronavirus cases increasing at a faster rate than Swine Flu and SARS, empty streets/subways in China and rural areas putting up checkpoints, people shamed for not wearing masks, and many more memes (@AltisticRight post)
○ Confirmed deaths from coronavirus now outpacing confirmed recoveries 107-63 (@BONE_Buddy post)
○ CBC posts an article refuting claims about stolen coronavirus from Canadian lab (@Glad I couldn't help post)
○ Japanese bus driver with no history of travel to China contracts coronavirus after driving two groups of Wuhan tourists (@Samoyed post)
○ China demands apology from Danish newspaper over cartoon depicting China's flag with virus symbols instead of stars (@ATaxingWoman post)
Informative takes and extras:
@Alto on the absolute state of China's healthcare system on a normal day
@AJneedsElocution has a copy of Biology of Plagues attached to their post here
○ Current treatment for coronavirus infected patients in China includes Traditional Chinese Medicinal herbs (@Alto post)
○ There is no Department of 'Diseasology', Parramatta (@HollaGemini post)
○ People's Daily posts stock photo for their 'first constructed hospital', Shiyan changes all traffic lights to red, coronavirus cases increasing at a faster rate than Swine Flu and SARS, empty streets/subways in China and rural areas putting up checkpoints, people shamed for not wearing masks, and many more memes (@AltisticRight post)
○ Confirmed deaths from coronavirus now outpacing confirmed recoveries 107-63 (@BONE_Buddy post)
○ CBC posts an article refuting claims about stolen coronavirus from Canadian lab (@Glad I couldn't help post)
○ Japanese bus driver with no history of travel to China contracts coronavirus after driving two groups of Wuhan tourists (@Samoyed post)
○ China demands apology from Danish newspaper over cartoon depicting China's flag with virus symbols instead of stars (@ATaxingWoman post)
Informative takes and extras:
@Alto on the absolute state of China's healthcare system on a normal day
@AJneedsElocution has a copy of Biology of Plagues attached to their post here
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They don't have a sense of humor! I wonder if we have to launch a contest like drawing President Xi as Winnie the Pooh or the Chinese flag?
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Unless you kill every bat, bird, ape and pig in the world, get used to viruses jumping to humans. Being hygienic won't stop it either. Sounds good, but won't work.
Every year thousands of viruses on bats, birds, reptiles, apes and pigs make the successful mutation to jump to humans - it's just that the viruses don't get a chance to find a human host so it doesn't become an issue - and the viruses die with the host. Or get cooked well enough and die. But cooking every time wont stop it either, because it could be a bat shit on your car door you wipe aside one day that's the source. Or the bird poop all over your kids soccer ball. It takes one virus, in one bird, and an open field where we play football.
Somewhere in the world right now, there is an avian bird flu virus of lethal capacity sitting on a bird. Perhaps this virus is one out of a billion in that bird and will die withe the bird, or be killed by that birds immune system.
Meanwhile, the greatest bioweapon we should be worried about that killed 50,000 Americans last year and wasn't eradicated is still around today, superbugs, in the largest hospitals of the USA where it is allowed to grow and mutate and quietly grow.
Why? Because the medical industry has almost the same power as the military here and they simply say they can't clean the hospitals out and kill it off...because it would cost too much.
A virus we can build a vaccine for I can live with, but a superbug that is almost impossible to kill once it gains a human host, sitting on the bed you get your minor surgery on? That's a nightmare. Since 2019-nCoV started on 1 Jan, 4,000 Americans were killed in our own hospitals by bacteria and viruses that were Made In America.
Every year thousands of viruses on bats, birds, reptiles, apes and pigs make the successful mutation to jump to humans - it's just that the viruses don't get a chance to find a human host so it doesn't become an issue - and the viruses die with the host. Or get cooked well enough and die. But cooking every time wont stop it either, because it could be a bat shit on your car door you wipe aside one day that's the source. Or the bird poop all over your kids soccer ball. It takes one virus, in one bird, and an open field where we play football.
Somewhere in the world right now, there is an avian bird flu virus of lethal capacity sitting on a bird. Perhaps this virus is one out of a billion in that bird and will die withe the bird, or be killed by that birds immune system.
Meanwhile, the greatest bioweapon we should be worried about that killed 50,000 Americans last year and wasn't eradicated is still around today, superbugs, in the largest hospitals of the USA where it is allowed to grow and mutate and quietly grow.
Why? Because the medical industry has almost the same power as the military here and they simply say they can't clean the hospitals out and kill it off...because it would cost too much.
A virus we can build a vaccine for I can live with, but a superbug that is almost impossible to kill once it gains a human host, sitting on the bed you get your minor surgery on? That's a nightmare. Since 2019-nCoV started on 1 Jan, 4,000 Americans were killed in our own hospitals by bacteria and viruses that were Made In America.
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@Yotsubaaa, you deserve a lot of credit for keeping your fellow Kiwis informed.
Wish I could give you an achievement badge for this. It's really helpful.
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