Wuhan Coronavirus: Megathread - Got too big

[Ellesse_warrior]

Lemme give a rough view on the first few tweets:

This one is basically slamming the Red Cross for lining their own pockets by selling the veggies the Shandong farmers donated in the supermarkets.

This one is about a chink wife snitching to her Weibo friends and the police about her husband's high fever. After investigations, it turned out to be a nothingburger leading to the wife getting arrested for 3 days under the charge of creating fake news and reports.

This one is about the hospital being so over capacity that they can't even take in patients in critical condition while the doctors are suffering mad burnout. The guy's cursing and swearing at the poor receptionist in some Wuhan dialect.

This one as per the picture is on the CCP hoarding the N95's for themselves and their cronies while the first responders get diddly shit.

sorry I can't archive this, am on my Chinese new year break w family atm. Will translate more if I have the time.

Here is the video from the 1st post

Here is the video from the 3rd post

Fir some reason I can't archive the other 2 tweets

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Almost certainly late but WHO press conference is starting now on Coronavirus.
Edit: OK Not sure when this will start another live channel is saying 11. Fuckin RT.

Here is a CBC stream saying it will start at 11 in case RT is too exceptional. Jeez what a choice.

I know it's not fair but I really hate when videos put a heartwrenching picture over a crisis that is nearly entirely (and in this case might be completely entirely) the result of the victims' own actions. No one is going to put a picture of a bat soup or the inability of China's healthcare infrastructure. Instead it's some cute picture of a woman and a baby.

 

[Ahriman]

To piggyback on @Memology 101 's video, there were talks of infected bats back in 2013, for fuck's sake.

Isolation and characterization of a bat SARS-like coronavirus that uses the ACE2 receptor

Whole-genome sequences of two novel SARS-CoV-related bat coronaviruses, in addition to a live isolate of a bat SARS-like coronavirus, are reported; the live isolate can infect human cells using ACE2, providing the strongest evidence to date that Chinese horseshoe bats are natural reservoirs of...

www.nature.com

So not only it was engineered in Wuhan, this shit was known to be pretty damn dangerous close to 10 years ago, holy fucking shit.

See that extract? it says that they have had reports of infected bats not only in China, but also on Europe and Africa too.

WOW.

 

[Shield Breaker]

That's...incredibly dumb. How many days before the number of infected surpasses the entire human population in this "model"?

Literally 18 or so days afterwards. Sorry, guys, but June is cancelled.

 

[DonaldLump]

Do you guys believe the theory that the virus was man-made as a way for the Chinese government to curb the elderly population,Wuhan had some bio-tech labs, or do you believe the main culprit is just Chinese eating habits?

I find it fishy that the Wuhan Institute of Virology is about 8 miles from the marketplace they say the disease originated from. but at the same time, i cant believe this was done on purpose. Surely there are more quite, cheap and safer ways of curbing the population than this. I mean the utter devastation to their economy this must be wreaking.

Perhaps its an embarrassing accidental leak or breach that they are trying to contain and fix asap so as not to loose face. Like Chernobyl, they will deny the extent of the damage until its irrefutable, then concede the irrefutable facts and deny the rest until they become irrefutable. so on, and so forth... but thats just my speculation.

I just cant believe it was intentional. too much collateral damage.

 

[Ahriman]

I find it fishy that the Wuhan Institute of Virology is about 8 miles from the marketplace they say the disease originated from. but at the same time, i cant believe this was done on purpose. Surely there are more quite, cheap and safer ways of curbing the population than this. I mean the utter devastation to their economy this must be wreaking.

Perhaps its an embarrassing accidental leak or breach that they are trying to contain and fix asap so as not to loose face. Like Chernobyl, they will deny the extent of the damage until its irrefutable, then concede the irrefutable facts and deny the rest until they become irrefutable. so on, and so forth... but thats just my speculation.

I just cant believe it was intentional. too much collateral damage.

Well the thing is - as I've posted earlier, talks of infected bats went as far back as 2013, but no one in their right mind thought "eh how about we start eating bat soup!", I'd say that that's where the major fuck-up started.

 

[XYZpdq]

If it was intentional it would only be for the international end of things.
If red china wants to kill its people they just do it.

 

[Ahriman]

Fun fact: FEMA has their own app.

Mobile App | FEMA.gov

Install the FEMA App, available for Apple and Android mobile devices.

www.fema.gov

Android link

iOS link

Might wanna consider installing it, just in case.

 

[Synesthesia]

Well the thing is - as I've posted earlier, talks of infected bats went as far back as 2013, but no one in their right mind thought "eh how about we start eating bat soup!", I'd say that that's where the major fuck-up started.

I wonder if the spread of eating bats started with some Chinese social media craze?

 

[lottalove]

The recent outbreak is interesting, because it again shows the lack of hygiene as a main culprit for china-born plagues. Sometime soon chinese politicians should learn from this, if they really do work on improving the life of their people. How many more outbreaks do they need? Saving face would mean "doing what they can to improve national hygiene" this time, wouldn't it?

What all this should show is is that these viruses have that deniability about them. Let’s say a sample is found in that lab. The CCP response can be ‘well yes we have been collecting viruses after the SARS a outbreak and this is another one circulating in the wild.’ Without a paper trail or something indisputable in the sequence, how could you prove otherwise? You could suspect it had been altered, but if you’re finding it’s a mix of existing sequences how could you prove it?

It sounds reasonable to keep these questions (man-made vs. accidentally released vs. naturally developed) unanswered for now, because they can't be answered. Much more than bs social media posts about "totally patented by Bill Gates in 2015, they want to cash in on the antivirus, they want to kill the elderly" or what have you. Jumping to conclusions and conspiracies because it's just more satisfying to know the answer already.

 

[Disheveled Human]

Well the thing is - as I've posted earlier, talks of infected bats went as far back as 2013, but no one in their right mind thought "eh how about we start eating bat soup!", I'd say that that's where the major fuck-up started.

It goes further back from that people know vermin like rats and bats are major vectors for disease the black plague being one of the obvious lessons people should have learned from history. It's funny how people who practice eating and living around various creatures who are known for being strong vectors for disease are the most densely populated countries. nature has a funny way of creating balance I guess. In India they lay out m. ilk in temples and pray while rats and mice mingle about around them, and in China they will eat anything that moves which include rats, bats, snakes and insects many which are caught fresh out of the wild and sold the next day.

 

[Ahriman]

I wonder if the spread of eating bats started with some Chinese social media craze?

That's kinda what happened - a TV host was eating bat soup back in 2016... think the Chinese version of "Man vs Food".

The CCP forced her to apologize.

Chinese Government Forces TV Host Who Popularized Eating Bats to Apologize

Bat soup is off the menu.

summit.news

人民日報 People's Daily on Twitter

“【“吃蝙蝠”視頻瘋傳 當事人：為自己的無知道歉】隨著新型冠狀病毒感染的肺炎疫情消息不斷從“一線陣地”傳來，被研究認為是病毒自然宿主的蝙蝠，引起網友關注。近日，一段上線於2016年6月的“美女吃蝙蝠”視頻被網友扒出，女主持也因吃蝙蝠而被網友聲討。 22日，涉事主持汪某表示為自己曾經的無知道歉。 https://t.co/sNeEPuCjbU”

twitter.com

 

[kcbbq]

Literally 18 or so days afterwards. Sorry, guys, but June is cancelled.

Imagine how many will be infected a week after that! Those Higgs boson experiments at CERN allowing Corona-Chan to time travel were a mistake.

 

[LazyLizard]

It goes further back from that people know vermin like rats and bats are major vectors for disease the black plague being one of the obvious lessons people should have learned from history. It's funny how people who practice eating and living around various creatures who are known for being strong vectors for disease are the most densely populated countries. nature has a funny way of creating balance I guess. In India they lay out m. ilk in temples and pray while rats and mice mingle about around them, and in China they will eat anything that moves which include rats, bats, snakes and insects many which are caught fresh out of the wild and sold the next day.

problem is that thanks to globalism the rest of the world gets completely fucked by this too, had this happened a couple of centuries ago there wouldn't be a problem it would have spread in a few towns and villages and died down but now that the entire world is connected we fucked ourselves.

 

[Apathy is my superpower]

Lufthansa, Swiss and Austrian Airlines cancelled all flights from and to China (except Hong Kong) until Feb. 9th too:

German link

 

[AlexJonesGotMePregnant]

we need another Chinese Exclusion Act. What will the chinks do when they are stuck in their own country? Whose innovation and wealth will they steal?

Won't even take a year before the riots drag their country back to the stone age.

 

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132 deaths
110 recovered

54% kill rate so far isn't promising.

(The 6057 infected are "in progress" numbers. They don't drag that kill rate down until they progress to "recovered.")

Also, Australia has apparently confirmed the "contagious before symptoms" thing. Last I heard that was still considered quackery?

Hector Torres on Twitter

“#BREAKING Australia's chief medical officer Brendan Murphy has confirmed that #coronavirus is contagious before people show symptoms. The major update comes as Victoria's chief medical officer confirmed there is a second case of #nCoV19 in that state.”

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we need another Chinese Exclusion Act. What will the chinks do when they are stuck in their own country? Whose innovation and wealth will they steal?

Won't even take a year before the riots drag their country back to the stone age.

They eat Dog Testicles, Raw Bats, and Turtle Asshole Soup. They're already pretty fucking close to the stone age.

 

[Randall Fragg]

You're going to get the best medical info on pol.

Not kidding, financial analysts are using it as a primary source for info on the virus itself.

Got a source on that financial analyst thing? Because that sounds pretty hilarious.

 

[LazyLizard]

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132 deaths
110 recovered

54% kill rate so far isn't promising.

(The 6057 infected are "in progress" numbers. They don't drag that kill rate down until they progress to "recovered.")

Also, Australia has apparently confirmed the "contagious before symptoms" thing. Last I heard that was still considered quackery?

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i thought we knew this already, especially when the german guy got infected by the chinese lady days before she showed any symptoms.

 

[Noideawhattopick]

Got a source on that financial analyst thing? Because that sounds pretty hilarious.

Which analyst would write a prediction for whatever scenario and use /pol/ as a reference? Even if they used Pol as source given the current timeline is a highly likely scenario?