Wuhan Coronavirus: Megathread - Got too big

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Really hope a Korean friend of mine is doing okay over there. Really worried for her.

 

[RodgerDodger]

IMO. If this was something that escaped from one of their own labs how do you mess up so badly as to make your own people and the preferred gender of those people be the hardest hit. It it was spontaneous from their gross habits IDK but whatever great cosmic being you believe in woke up and decided fuck you in particular today China.

Things like Coronavirus's tend to be adapted to best exploit the local populations in the area that they arise. It's not that it was engineered to attack Asian people, It's that it is a Coronavirus originating from Central China. Hence the best replicating specimens of it are the ones that best exploit the local host population. Everyone always thinks it works like the Native American's having no natural immunities to smallpox. But it is more complex than that. The population also needs to have abundant receptors for what the virus targets. A virus can just as easily stop dead when it hits a new population because it has not yet adapted to exploit that population.

I remain doubtful that this was engineered as a bioweapon. More likely it was a lab grown, for lack of a better term, adversary. An example of an expected and fast spreading virus that the scientists were using as the means to test things like potential cures and vaccines against in controlled lab conditions. In case you haven't figured it out yet Scientists are often idiots, and will cook this sort of thing up so they can find a cure for it for when it naturally occurs, never grasping the danger of cooking it up in the first place.

 

[Bisdejl]

Confirmed case in Wisconsin

The patient is an adult with a history of travel to Beijing, China prior to becoming ill and was exposed to known cases while in China. The individual is isolated at home, and is doing well. Out of respect for the privacy of the patient and their household, this is the only information that is available.

This person was tested in Madison, so they're almost certainly affiliated with UW-Madison (and their isolation is apparently self-imposed).

Archive: http://archive.li/vRija

 

[Exigent Circumcisions]

For Chinese, acting stupid is actually survival trait, I am 100% serious and not even joking this time - anyone too smart or educated got killed by Mao, stupid peasants and few smart ones who twigged to the fact and knew how to put on an act survived. This has changed, but getting rid of decades of programming and generational trauma takes time.

Black slaves did the same shit. Play servile and dumb because there's literally nothing to gain from intelligence beyond the suspicion of the master. Authoritarian dictatorships are just plantations that span a whole country so you're bound to see the same behavior.

 

[Rumpled Foreskin]

I’ve heard, through grapevines, the mortality rate is around 15%. Plum Island Research Facility had planned to have been sold last year, but in December, of last year, it was delayed by a year. Take all with a grain of salt. Be safe, friends.

 

[Rabidcolombian]

For Chinese, acting stupid is actually survival trait, I am 100% serious and not even joking this time - anyone too smart or educated got killed by Mao, stupid peasants and few smart ones who twigged to the fact and knew how to put on an act survived. This has changed, but getting rid of decades of programming and generational trauma takes time.

I always thought IQ tests were kind of bullshit on this alone. Asians have the highest IQ in the world but independent thinking doesn't seem to be a factor in regards to high intelligence in those tests. I know IQ tests are for the most part accurate (The Bell Curve makes a valid point) but these people literally use shit water to make oil. I'm sure there are certain Hispanic and African countries who aren't as stupid as this (though I could be wrong). You'd think basic sanitary knowledge would be an important factor in finding out if someone is stupid or not. Peasants at least in the middle ages had the excuse that they didn't even know what germs were. But how can you be aware of how badly germs and pollution are and STILL cook your street food with a thousand wasps buzzing around and not care???

Apparently there are also restaurants in China where there are pigs underneath the building and they make holes in the floor for customers to poop in and the pigs eat the poop. Then they kill the pigs to serve to the customer. What the flying fuck.

 

[Computer Boy]

Chinese scholar blames Xi Jinping, party for not controlling virus outbreak

Beijing’s crackdown on civil society, freedom of expression made it impossible for people to raise the alarm about the situation, Tsinghua University professor Xu Zhangrun says in online article.

www.scmp.com

 

[simulated goat]

I'm not one for conspiracies and I don't see if they broke down the deaths by sex. If I'm reading right 41 People in the study, 30 Men - 11 Women. Of the 30 Men, 11 in ICU and of the 11 Woman, 2 in ICU. Of those who ended up in ICU, 5 Died. Which given it was more men who ended up in ICU you could make a safe assumption most of those who died were probably male? It really seems wild that you'd have a virus that from what we currently know seems to affect people of Asian backgrounds harder and from the results from this particular piece, more common in males.

In a country that is Asian and has a cultural bias against women, with a preference for male children.

IMO. If this was something that escaped from one of their own labs how do you mess up so badly as to make your own people and the preferred gender of those people be the hardest hit. It it was spontaneous from their gross habits IDK but whatever great cosmic being you believe in woke up and decided fuck you in particular today China.

Chinese have mentioned people losing mothers, aunts, etc. There is no guarantee they were even added to statistics as some of the women in these stories died at home. I would remember that China has a preference for males (and certain classes of people) before using any of the stats for hospital admittance and testing from that country. I think the cruise ship is going to give us vastly more accurate information.

 

[Fatafata]

Really hope a Korean friend of mine is doing okay over there. Really worried for her.

Its business as usual for them right now but with the added bonuses of having more reasons to hate on the Chinese.

She's doing fine.

 

[Rabidcolombian]

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Chinese scholar blames Xi Jinping, party for not controlling virus outbreak

Beijing’s crackdown on civil society, freedom of expression made it impossible for people to raise the alarm about the situation, Tsinghua University professor Xu Zhangrun says in online article.

www.scmp.com

BREAKING NEWS

The smartest man in China suicided himself today by deadly coronavirus, which the CCP has just found out CAN be possible, reports Wuhan Times. "He was found in the streets of Wuhan with his head face down in bat soup," President Xi Jumping has stated. "The communist party of China will dearly miss him. Even during the times he acted all high and mighty by not eating Chinese gutter oil."

 

[LetThemEatCake]

Apparently there are also restaurants in China where there are pigs underneath the building and they make holes in the floor for customers to poop in and the pigs eat the poop. Then they kill the pigs to serve to the customer. What the flying fuck.

The 'hole in the floor toilet over the pig pen' situation is an ancient Chinese set-up but is also still seen all over the ass-backwards parts of Asia such as Tibet and India, and used to be a thing in Japan pre-WW2.

The Vietnamese had or have (not sure) a version of it featuring a fucking fish pond. So you could eat a fish fed on human faeces that had swum in water spiced with human urine. You sometimes wonder how Asia got to be as populous as it is.

 

[Shaka Brah]

I always thought IQ tests were kind of bullshit on this alone. Asians have the highest IQ in the world but independent thinking doesn't seem to be a factor in regards to high intelligence in those tests. I know IQ tests are for the most part accurate (The Bell Curve makes a valid point) but these people literally use shit water to make oil. I'm sure there are certain Hispanic and African countries who aren't as stupid as this (though I could be wrong). You'd think basic sanitary knowledge would be an important factor in finding out if someone is stupid or not. Peasants at least in the middle ages had the excuse that they didn't even know what germs were. But how can you be aware of how badly germs and pollution are and STILL cook your street food with a thousand wasps buzzing around and not care???

Apparently there are also restaurants in China where there are pigs underneath the building and they make holes in the floor for customers to poop in and the pigs eat the poop. Then they kill the pigs to serve to the customer. What the flying fuck.

Ah, but you see, the people selling shit-oil are not the ones eating it.

The Chinese are intelligent but also cruel and individualistic (or at least family-centric). Their culture is "fuck you I've got mine" personified, and they will gladly cheat, lie, and steal from anyone if it means getting a leg up over their peers.

 

[moocow]

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Chinese scholar blames Xi Jinping, party for not controlling virus outbreak

Beijing’s crackdown on civil society, freedom of expression made it impossible for people to raise the alarm about the situation, Tsinghua University professor Xu Zhangrun says in online article.

www.scmp.com

Welp, he's dead.

 

[EmuWarsVeteran]

Things like Coronavirus's tend to be adapted to best exploit the local populations in the area that they arise. It's not that it was engineered to attack Asian people, It's that it is a Coronavirus originating from Central China. Hence the best replicating specimens of it are the ones that best exploit the local host population. Everyone always thinks it works like the Native American's having no natural immunities to smallpox. But it is more complex than that. The population also needs to have abundant receptors for what the virus targets. A virus can just as easily stop dead when it hits a new population because it has not yet adapted to exploit that population.

I remain doubtful that this was engineered as a bioweapon. More likely it was a lab grown, for lack of a better term, adversary. An example of an expected and fast spreading virus that the scientists were using as the means to test things like potential cures and vaccines against in controlled lab conditions. In case you haven't figured it out yet Scientists are often idiots, and will cook this sort of thing up so they can find a cure for it for when it naturally occurs, never grasping the danger of cooking it up in the first place.

Scientists here in the west are quite understanding of the danger, and abaolutely fucking autistic about the security protocols. Chinese scientists though? Well. The results speak for themselves. Here's two anecdotes to illustrate the sheer unbridalled autism of lab conditions:

-here's one I witnessed but didn't participate: a scientist wearing 3 layers of gloves. You might say: 3 layers? Why? Well: first layer was the normal lab gloves. Nothing too weird there, you're working with samples, even if they're noninfectious you could pollute the sample and that's not ok, so you wear them. Right. Well before getting the 2nd layer we get the first disinfectant, you don't wanna possibly pollute the lab equipment, so even though you're wearing gloves, just in case, clean them, even if they're new. Second layer is part of the equipment, labs for contagious shit often feature a screen to keep the shit behind. This screen sometimes have thick rubber gloves attached to it so you don't have to put your arms around it. This is specially true for any lab using radioactive markers. Well, second layer of disinfectant: those gloves are static, non-disposable, so before ysing them slather that shit in disinfectant, and then 3rd layer. Said disinfectant can fuck up the sample, so cover the thick rubber gloves with disposable gloves to protect it. Hence, the triple layered autistic glove monster from hell. Now you may think: what kinda shit they were working on to have this kinda autism at full display? Ecoli. It was god damned ecoli. Radioactive markers means the screen has to be used, even if the risk of infection is practically 0.

-and one I actually participated in: here's the first time I realized the sheer level of autism of biolabs during lab practices: the protocol which we were under strict supervision to ensure we followed call for us to put the sealed container with the sample inside the presurized bell (while wearing gloves already of course), then use disinfectant on the gloves before entering the bell with our hands, use a disposable pipette contained in an individual package which is only ever opened within the bell and dispose of both the package and the pipette in a container inside the bell after use. All this just to add an enzime to the sample which is resealed within the bell before being taken to the incubator, then use disinfectant again on the gloves. Seems like a really strict protocol for really dangerous stuff. Huh? Well that was human skin tissue. That... that was just skin. The reason for this protocol is not to protect us, but the sample, and avoid pollution. THIS IS THE LEVEL OF AUTISM PRESENT IN WESTERN LABS. This is the BASE level of autism for PERFECTLY SAFE SAMPLES. Just saying, this shit wouldn't have escaped over here! China though? Well you already heard that guy that worked there rile against the conditions, AND WITH GOOD REASON!

 

[Coldgrip]

So you have a ignorant country run by a total asshole who is trying to save face by showing the world that In they are "launching a people's war against the Corona Virus" And it is being lead by their glorious leader... Xi jingping.

And if you have noticed he is NOT been seen for a while...

I wonder if he has the sniffles... It is flu season you know.

Super late on this, but he's doing what every dictator does when the plague shows up; keep as low a profile as possible, horde the best medical supplies and doctors, and when this all blows over emerge to tell the decimated masses that through his strength alone he was able to beat the disease.

Pooh Bear knows that shit like this can fuck him hard, that dictators have fallen due to these events or the events it sets into motion.

 

[Yotsubaaa]

Here's the latest. I'll also include here links to my previous post collections too (Thanks @Token Weeaboo!)
Jan 20-Jan 27 (post 1/2)
Jan 20-Jan 27 (post 2/2)
Jan 27-Jan 28
Jan 28-Jan 29
Jan 29-Jan 31 (post 1/2)
Jan 29-Jan 31 (post 2/2)
Jan 31-Feb 3

EDIT: Also, thanks @Coleslaw for the correction!

Spoiler: Monday, 3 February 2020

○ Update: China reports 3235 more confirmed cases of coronavirus, non-Hubei cases up to 890, and 23314 suspected cases (@Ahriman post)
○ China's National Health Commission reports 750 new confirmed cases of coronavirus, total is now more than 20000 (@Computer Boy post)
○ Japan currently leading in non-China cases of coronavirus, China admits shortcomings in their response to virus outbreak, the BBC reports on the Chinese doctor who tried to warn colleagues about a "SARS-like" virus in Wuhan and was threatened by authorities, and UK health secretary warns the coronavirus "will be with us for at least some months to come" (@LetThemEatCake post)
○ Australian GPs reportedly testing "any patient who's been to China" for potential coronavirus infection (@Charls did nothing wrong post)
○ South Korean patient infected with coronavirus has recovered enough to be discharged from hospital (@Jann_Hörn post)
○ Hong Kong reports first coronavirus death, with a 39 year old man who had an underlying illness (@Computer Boy post)
○ Coronavirus death toll passes 420 (@IAmNotAlpharius post)
○ Twitter poster suspects China's reported coronavirus infection numbers may be fabricated outputs from a basic algorithm (@Ow The Edge post)
○ China injecting another $242 billion of liquidity into the markets today (@Rei is shit post)
○ China's People's Daily says US "offered no concrete help to China to fight coronavirus outbreak" (@Feline Supremacist post)
○ Brazil to declare state of emergency as they investigate 14 suspected cases of coronavirus (@SparklyFetuses post)


Informative takes and extras:
Livestream: Chinese news anchor talks about the coronavirus and follows patients as they are transferred to the new Huoshenshan hospital (@Computer Boy post)

@Mike Stoklasa asks some good questions about drainage and air-tightness in China's two-week-constructed hospital
@Mike Stoklasa continues: there are many gaps, uneven materials, and weirdly-cut holes in the China hospital prefabs already
@Jet Fuel Johnny weighs in about China's two-week hospital too: they can't do pressure differentials, what happens when it rains, and the issues involved in supplying/powering the complex

Alibaba listing for the same type of prefabricated "Luxury Container" that China used to build their hospital (@Bat Soup Reviews post)

Spoiler: Tuesday, 4 February 2020

○ South America news: so far no cases reported for Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Uruguay, Venezuela, Suriname and Guyana, Colombia and Peru had suspected cases that were cleared, and Brazil, Ecuador and Paraguay have suspected coronavirus cases that they're still evaluating. No alerts yet in Mexico or Colombia, Bolivia creates an Emergency Operative, Costa Rica activates all protocols, Argentina recommends its citizens avoid travel to China or Asia, and Venezuela to add more security to airport arrivals in Caracas (@Tasty Tatty post)
○ Hong Kong medical workers officially go on strike to pressure their government into closing its border with mainland China (@SiccDicc post)
○ First suspected case of coronavirus in Iran (@SparklyFetuses post)
○ @Youthanasia's translations of the Chinese Twitter account continued: the Chinese medical personnel are hurting their faces by keeping the masks and goggles on basically all the time, A Chinese woman snitches on her husband for "not taking care of the family" and "causing public disorder amidst the pandemic", one of the P4 Wuhan Lab researchers denies that the coronavirus was caused by their leaking it and gets schooled by an alleged professor about China's insufficient lab protocols, Wuhan's medical supplies have finally run out, the CCP issues a notice on the stoppage of water supply to the Dongtan district, chickens still being culled en masse over bird flu fears, a Chinese man is arrested and almost charged when someone falsely reports him to the police for "intentionally spreading the coronavirus", and China issuing "hall passes" for families to go out an buy groceries/supplies once every two days
○ First Malaysian citizen infected with the coronavirus (@Kane Lives post)
○ First case of coronavirus confirmed in Belgium (@Apathy is my superpower post)
○ China's National Health Commission announces that their national mortality rate for coronavirus is 2.1% (@Apathy is my superpower post)
○ 12 confirmed cases of coronavirus in Germany (@Apathy is my superpower post)
○ South Korean woman infected with coronavirus after traveling in Thailand (@Apathy is my superpower post)
○ More apparent hospital footage: dead bodies bagged up in hallways (@ulsterscotsman post)
○ Update: 20679 confirmed cases of coronavirus, 427 dead, 713 recovered. Chinese mining company CITIC Pacific isolates more than 20 of their workforce in Western Australia as a precaution, Sino Iron Ore Mine workers asked to take "voluntary isolation" for 14 days, and Kwinana BP Oil Refinery refuses entry to anyone who has traveled to China in the last two weeks (@MechanicusAdmin post)
○ Christmas Island detention center camp has dirty sheets, dead cockroaches, lousy internet access, and the families staying there are not isolated from one another. An 8 year old boy is the latest confirmed case of coronavirus in Queensland, and the two South Australian coronavirus patients lied to authorities about self-quarantining (@cruisecontrol4cool post)
○ A Letter in Science claims that the New England Journal of Medicine paper about asymptomatic transmission of coronavirus is flawed (@Glad I couldn't help post)
○ Coronavirus-infected couple in Rome moved to the Intensive Care Unit (@Mammamia in Naziland post)
○ Thailand confirms 6 new coronavirus cases: included are two motorcycle drivers who apparently caught the virus through local transmission (@Apathy is my superpower post)
○ Apparently Nanjing issued a notice stating that "if an outbreak occurs in a rented house without a timely report, the leasing unit or individual of the house will be held accountable according to law" (@MasterBaiter post)
○ Chinese woman attacked in New York City for wearing a protective mask (@Computer Boy post)
○ Thailand now leading in non-China cases of coronavirus with 25 confirmed cases (@LetThemEatCake post)
○ Italians are throwing rocks at Chinese people and banning them from local bars and restaurants amid coronavirus panic (@Slimy Time post)
○ Multiple people infected with coronavirus on a cruise ship off of Japan, 10 taken to hospital (@Computer Boy post)
○ China's UN envoy tells WHO that the bans on Chinese travelers a "risky overreaction" (@Computer Boy post)
○ No expected earthquakes, seismic events or alarming weather events in Wuhan for at least the next week or so (@JosephStalin post)
○ Demand soars in China for the Nintendo Switch 'Ring Fit Adventure' exercise game, as coronavirus is keeping people trapped in their homes (@Computer Boy post)
○ Possible case of indirect transmission of coronavirus in US as man with no history of travel to China goes through airport and is sick with pneumonia two weeks later (@Niggaplease post)
○ Woman reportedly shot dead in Hubei for attempting to break the blockade set up to contain coronavirus, and another woman freaking out at being taken away for quarantine (@Jump post)
○ Philippines senator presents a QAnon conspiracy video at a senate hearing on the coronavirus (@von Hapasbourg post)
○ 38 new confirmed cases of coronavirus for February 4 marks the biggest daily increase to-date (@Computer Boy post)
○ Smaller Chinese cities hit by coronavirus are scrambling for supplies (@Computer Boy post)
○ Amid calls for culling of cats and dogs in China, local hero is going around rescuing and looking after pets still trapped in Wuhan after their owners were evacuated (@LetThemEatCake post)
○ Wuhan crematoriums working 24/7 to cremate bodies of coronavirus victims (@Rei is shit post)
○ Chart graphing the CCP's current 'official' numbers of confirmed coronavirus cases, suspected cases and reported deaths (@Ow The Edge post)
○ Vice President of the Italian senate recommends using the 'fascist salute' instead of a handshake to avoid getting the coronavirus (@Ahriman post)
○ 2 new confirmed cases of coronavirus in South Korea (@SparklyFetuses post)


Informative takes and extras:
Video: informative conversation on coronavirus outbreak between Dr Li Shaolei and college classmates working in Wuhan (@Rudy Russo post)
ADVChina video with Serpentza and Laowhy86 on the recent updates with the coronavirus and the relationship between WHO and the CCP (@TheRedChair post)
@Ivan Shatov on Chinese markets and the potential damage the coronavirus could be doing to China's economy

@Tour of Italy goes into detail about those Alibaba prefabs that the coronavirus hospital is built from
@Tour of Italy's part two on the construction quality of China's hospital built from prefabs
@Tour of Italy's part three on the Chinese prefab hospital, re: seismic/wind events, and piping/drainage
@Jet Fuel Johnny critiques the 'finished' rooms in the Chinese prefab hospital

@Palpatine found a conspiracy theorist's blog claiming an nCoV S protein analogue in pShuttle-SN potentially better than RaTG13
@Otterly tears apart the conspiracy theorist's claims that 2019-nCoV is an experimental vaccine
@pull over dat ass too fat gives us a BLAST analysis tutorial while debunking the conspiracy theorist's claim of a matching sequence for pShuttle-SN
@pull over dat ass too fat's addendum on the E-value of a BLAST analysis

Some informative videos about Chinese sweatshops and immigration in Italy that might explain Italy's current tensions about the coronavirus (@TheRedChair post)
Informative video/article on the coronavirus capability to block white blood cell production, leaving infected with compromised immune systems (@Sulla post)
Some videos tours of the new Huoshenshan hospital (@Bat Soup Reviews post)

Spoiler: Wednesday, 5 February 2020

○ Fears that the thick 'death smog' over Wuhan are from all of the bodies being cremated (@qu_rahn post)
○ Germany reporting that the Chinese leadership is criticizing its own authorities, and Chinese authorities putting two cruise ships on chains, thousands of passengers stuck in quarantine (@soft breathing post)
○ Update: 24597 confirmed cases of coronavirus, 494 deaths, 955 recovered (@MechanicusAdmin post)
○ Video: live coronavirus update and Q&A, and Youtube reportedly demonetizing all coronavirus coverage (@TheRedChair post)
○ Patients in Germany's Munich clinic stable, and most are largely symptom-free (@Apathy is my superpower post)
○ Woman gets 10 days jail for claiming that the government gave her free masks (@Coleslaw post)
○ Tencent may have accidentally leaked the real coronavirus statistics: apparently for 02/01 there were 154023 confirmed cases, 79808 suspected cases, 24589 deaths and 269 recovered (@PicsNGifs post)
○ Newborn in Wuhan diagnosed with coronavirus, suggesting that the virus may transmit vertically between mother and baby (@Bat Soup Reviews post)
○ Hyundai apparently shutting down factories in South Korea temporarily, as they have been unable to source parts from China (@SpEd Kaczynski post)
○ Austrian woman flees quarantine isolation while waiting for coronavirus test results (@Apathy is my superpower post)
○ Chinese propaganda now saying that the US released the coronavirus as a bioweapon (@Ivan Shatov post)
○ WHO issues an appeal for $675 million to fight the coronavirus outbreak (@pairaducks post)
○ 350 American coronavirus evacuees arrive at Travis Air Force Base (@JosephStalin post)
○ Four new cases of coronavirus in Singapore, including a six month old infant (@Kane Lives post)
○ Chinese sex workers now claiming to be Korean or Japanese in their online advertisements since clients are giving them a wide berth amid coronavirus fears (@No_one post)
○ Racism against Chinese people apparently on the rise in Germany amid coronavirus fears (@soft breathing post)
○ Cruise ship of 1800 passengers in Hong Kong investigated after 3 former passengers diagnosed with coronavirus, research paper detailing infection of 2019-nCoV associated with high mortality, and Google Maps apparently moved the location of Wuhan's biolab (@Ahriman post)
○ Coronavirus death tool approaches 500 as number of confirmed cases grows (@Kill all whales post)
○ NHS orders 'coronavirus pods' in England hospitals (@LetThemEatCake post)
○ Tokyo 2020 Olympics CEO "seriously worried" over the coronavirus outbreak (@Jamar Is Enlightened post)
○ Twitter poster replies to BNO Newsroom claiming that the coronavirus spread is slowing down and that BNO is under-reporting recoveries (@Computer Boy post)
○ Video: Wuhan doctor's leaked conversation saying that nobody is handling/removing the dead bodies in the emergency ward (@LetThemEatCake post)
○ Update: 2987 new confirmed cases of coronavirus, 70 new deaths at outbreak epicenter (@Computer Boy post)
○ South Korea reports 4 more cases of coronavirus, raising country's total to 23 (@Computer Boy post)
○ Confirmed case of coronavirus reported in Wisconsin (@Bisdejl post)
○ Chinese scholar blames Xi Jinping and the CCP for not controlling the coronavirus outbreak (@Computer Boy post)


Informative takes and extras:
@Ivan Shatov on burying bodies and mass graves
@EmuWarsVeteran on bioweapons and why developing bioweapons and biotech actually helps us fight against viral pandemics
@Mr. Faget on the PR value of China claiming the coronavirus is a US bioweapon
Laowhy86 video about the CCP's reported coronavirus statistics and why they don't really make sense (@Ivan Shatov post)
@EmuWarsVeteran shares some stories of Western biolab conditions and protocols

 

[ADHD]

Archive:

 

[LetThemEatCake]

I’ve heard, through grapevines, the mortality rate is around 15%. Plum Island Research Facility had planned to have been sold last year, but in December, of last year, it was delayed by a year. Take all with a grain of salt. Be safe, friends.

Anthrax Island!

Which actually reminds me. A similar Level 3 lab in the UK, The Institute for Animal Health/Merial Animal Health Lt, at Pirbright in Surrey were responsible an outbreaks of Foot and Mouth Disease in 2007. There was a countrywide outbreak of the disease in 2001 that half-killed the agricultural and tourism sectors, but that was down to a farmer feeding his pigs untreated swill that included infected meat illegally imported from the continent. The 2007 outbreak was different.

The virus was one used in vaccine production that escaped the facilities in 2007 through broken effluent pipes that led to flooding up into the ground around them instead of the waste being treated properly with caustic substances. All it takes is a lack of maintainance at any single stage of disposal and your biosafety is shot to hell. Would not suprise me at all if this was the case in China knowing how shite their building/maintainance is in general. we joke about someone taking a pig or bat home to chow on, but it could be simply there is/was a leaky valve or pipe or malfunctioning waste disposal system somewhere in the Level 4 lab in Wu Han too.

On 4 August the virus was identified as the FMDV BFS 1860 O1 1967 (Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus, British Field Strain 1860, serotype O, subtype 1, isolated in 1967; also referred to as strain BFS 1860/UK/67[11] ), a virus isolated in the 1967 outbreak and until the 2007 outbreak, not in circulation in animals.[12] It was the same strain as used at the nearby Pirbright laboratory site, which houses separate units of the Institute for Animal Health and Merial Animal Health Ltd at Pirbright, 2 1⁄2 miles (4.0 km) away, which was identified as a possible source of infection, as it is one of only four European laboratories authorised to handle that strain of the virus to produce vaccines, the next nearest being in Belgium.[13][14][15] As a result, the isolation zone was extended.[16]

The source of the strain released and contained in Surrey in 2007 was the advanced effluent pipes from either the Institute for Animal Health or the similar vaccine researching and producing Merial Animal Health laboratory near to Pirbright village in the county – the pipes were too old and/or insufficiently inspected given their importance. An inspection of the effluent pipes and manholes carried out for the HSE investigators showed deficiencies and the independent investigation of Professor Brian Spratt concluded that it was very likely that they occasionally leaked still-infectious effluent at the time of the outbreak. Both laboratories, either of which may have been the cause, upgraded and repaired their effluent treatment systems to continue operation.

 

[Computer Boy]

Ohohoho what's this?

BNO Newsroom on Twitter

“China's National Health Commission has deleted today's press release. Waiting for an update (correction?) https://t.co/hjOsRnMjc5”

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BNO Newsroom on Twitter

“According to Reuters, China's National Health Commission is adding 193 new cases to the update, but we haven't seen it yet https://t.co/l3M4Bn3ltn”

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[HonsPonzud]

Ohohoho what's this?
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BNO Newsroom on Twitter

“China's National Health Commission has deleted today's press release. Waiting for an update (correction?) https://t.co/hjOsRnMjc5”

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BNO Newsroom on Twitter

“According to Reuters, China's National Health Commission is adding 193 new cases to the update, but we haven't seen it yet https://t.co/l3M4Bn3ltn”

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Are the true numbers finally coming out ?

I press X.