Wuhan Coronavirus: Megathread - Got too big

[AnotherPleb]

Canadians, a Coronavirus, spreading fast near you :

National Bacteria Association 🇨🇦 on Twitter

“@CPHO_Canada Self Quarantine? People are out licking food at supermarkets 🤷‍♂️ https://t.co/Ml1zIvFE1m”

twitter.com

When was the last time anyone in here washed anything besides produce when they went shopping?

 

[remiem]

For the first time in weeks there's a major change on the John Hopkins dashboard--besides the 2 Aus and 1 Japan cases, there were no First World "Recovered" cases. They now show a US case as recoverd on Seattle. According to news reports, he was the first US diagnosed case, but all they say is he was sent home from the hospital to be isolated and monitored. Not sure if this is good or what.

First U.S. Coronavirus Patient Leaves Washington Hospital

The hospital declined to provide information about when he was discharged

time.com

Of course the Time article is from 4 days ago, so either John Hopkins is late on reporting the "recovery"or it's a true recovery and his condition improved in the past 4 days and they have access to info not yet reported in the news.

I assume this relates to the whole they found the virus shedding in his stool still. So having to remain in isolation is related to them not being able to spread it along until they test negative. Prevautionary measures. Letting him go home just means they feel he's no longer at risk for the severe complications.

He's probably at the tail end and just waiting for the last symptoms to stop. Especially if the cough is the last thing to go.

I can't help but feel this is probably why China keeps getting new cases. The 'recovered' column grows but if that just means the person whose recovered is out of the woods for severe symptoms and sent home they might take that as they're fine and go back to doing whatever, when in reality they are still contagious to others. If that's coupled with being able to pass on the virus before showing symptoms it's no wonder it's ballooning in number of infected.

 

[Tasty Tatty]

I'm going to put on my tin foil hat for a second here.

If it turns out to truly be more affective against east asians, could it be possible that the western research facilities let the chinks "steal" the virus knowing that their lab tech was shite and it would get out?

Could be, but America also has high numbers of east asian population. If that spreads to their own country, where these people are minorities, would be too suspicious if only they drop dead. This is a chart that was making the rounds earlier. It won't only affect Chinese, but people from different backgrounds. And yes, also whites.

(check #7...hah...)

If we find out that there is indeed a very specific virus, that it specifically affects Han Chinese while the rest of people, even the risk populations, do overall well, I think it would be because they were trying to find a vaccine for themselves and were testing it on their own people rather than being targeted by Western countries.

 

[AltisticRight]

Developing Theory #4 (2+3) Is the one I give the most credence. It was a developed lab specimen. Most likely a test subject used to test and develop vaccines against an expected Coronavirus outbreak. Not specifically a weapon. It was in the Wuhan Institute of Virology. And much like happened with the most recent SARS outbreak and a few other prior incidents in China, somebody was selling excess lab animals to the live markets. Suddenly it all comes together. We have likely point of origin and explanation for some of the Viruses odd developmental quirks that do not look natural. We have the tie in to the Live Market. And we have a path connecting them that has been seen in at least 4 other Chinese Lab Containment Breaches in the past few years. Somebody who didn't give no fucks and wanted some extra holiday scratch was selling the lab animals which ended up in the live market.

This actually sounds very plausible and makes sense.
- Wuhan is an incompetent city
- Politicians are eunuchs
- The lab has high end shit, but the people who work there are kind of stupid (refer to my longer recent post)
- Chinamen eat fucking everything that's sentient
- China has some nice stuff sure, hygiene is shit, standards are low, markets are filthy

However, the lab still took the same time as the Shanghai one (actually they spent more time, since the virus had to be sent to Shanghai) to deconstruct the virus [insert technical term here... genetic sequencing or whatever I forgot]. If it's really a test subject there that carried a virus they made, then what took them so long?

Also, that lab has a bio-safety level of P4, surely test subjects won't just get funnelled out?
Who am I kidding, they had a winter vacation while the virus was circulating, the city of Wuhan arrested 8 experts, falsely accused them of spreading rumours while it's a screenshot someone else leaked and it was closed group, therefore where's the act of "spreading", and the politicians of Wuhan had a cringe worthy CNY gathering involving 40k fucking families.

And fuck me, Hubei's official wechat account deleted their post on the CNY gathering, I should have archived it, arrrrrrrg fuck. It's even on the local newspaper.
Not a big deal, I'm sure I can find it, here it is, begin to cringe.

This isn't fake shit, these photos were posted on Hubei's official wechat “湖北宣教”, 宣教 means 宣傳教育, "spreading and education", or one succinct word, "propaganda".

Here's the very nice masterpieces of culinary, even Gordon Ramsay should be satisfied (or else get arrested for spreading misinformation)

On flag "red neighbourhood"
Text:
The party's policy and propaganda team
Neighbourhood's hospitality team
Conflict defuse team
Emergency tackling team

Fucking hell

Xi's mantra
Follow the party
"Don't forget the initial goal (of course, communism)"
"Remember the duties"
"Duties are on your shoulders"
"Initial goal is heavy as a boulder"
I'm about to vomit.
If you read the second left column vertically, it's says 忘記命心 which means forget life and heart, lmfao, nice.

"
These have nothing to do with the party it seems, pretty nice.
Leftmost says "sing as you march", then "spread family values, forward family rules", "Chinese dream", last says harmony.

Newspaper and outlets:

This looks nice:

Hope the protein isn't pangolin or bats.

This is actually the same as a local church Christmas gathering. Each family brings their own dish, it's really nice and it's a great way to celebrate something big... however yeah... cross infection. Also those cringey commie propaganda shit, Xi really think he's the second coming of Mao.

Here's a video:

Nice food and qty plain reporter, but I'd rather not go near there.

 

[EmuWarsVeteran]

Okay, now it gets a little bit complicated:

A british citizen was tested positive for the coronavirus in Mallorca/Spain - he contracted the virus from a british family in France while on a skiing trip. The infected family in France was apparently infected by someone from Singapore.

Coronavirus: Briton tests positive in Spain as fourth case is confirmed in UK

A British man who caught coronavirus in Singapore appears to be linked to at least seven other confirmed cases in England, France and Spain.

www.telegraph.co.uk

edit:

Also, another case in London - also contracted the virus in France:

CMO confirms fourth case of coronavirus in England

Chief Medical Officer Professor Chris Whitty statement about a new case of novel coronavirus in England.

www.gov.uk

*Sigh* of course it'd be a Brit. Don't worry we're already used to taking care of you tea drinking bastards!

(For anyone that doesn't get it: brits love coming to spain to leech off of our healthcare because we really do need to start putting in checks for non-nationals already. This is called "turismo farmaceutico" (rough translation: "healthcare tourism"), and is so common than their colony of gibraltar doesn't even have proper medical facilities as their citizens just take a trip to the nearby province of Cadiz whenever they get sick. And yea, we are ultra-salty about that specially because Gibraltar also causes many, many issues both ecological and criminal because they keep dumping a ton of shit into the ocean and obstructing our government's work, effectively being a safe harbor for drug cartels who enter europe. So every few months we have another awful result of their shit dick measuring contest with our stupid ass government.)

Jokes (and salt) aside I do find it hilarious that all spanish infectees are from other european countries yet our hotel staff and waiters have been left alone by the disease, usually as soon as a tourist catches something those dumbasses in catalonia start catching it like flies. This shit really can be contained by bare bones western sanitation if they haven't yet. So china has a LOT to explain right now.

 

[AltisticRight]

Could be, but America also has high numbers of east asian population. If that spreads to their own country, where these people are minorities, would be too suspicious if only they drop dead. This is a chart that was making the rounds earlier. It won't only affect Chinese, but people from different backgrounds. And yes, also whites.

View attachment 1137311

(check #7...hah...)

If we find out that there is indeed a very specific virus, that it specifically affects Han Chinese while the rest of people, even the risk populations, do overall well, I think it would be because they were trying to find a vaccine for themselves and were testing it on their own people rather than being targeted by Western countries.

Makes this theory by @RodgerDodger sound even more believable:

Developing Theory #4 (2+3) Is the one I give the most credence. It was a developed lab specimen. Most likely a test subject used to test and develop vaccines against an expected Coronavirus outbreak. Not specifically a weapon. It was in the Wuhan Institute of Virology. And much like happened with the most recent SARS outbreak and a few other prior incidents in China, somebody was selling excess lab animals to the live markets. Suddenly it all comes together. We have likely point of origin and explanation for some of the Viruses odd developmental quirks that do not look natural. We have the tie in to the Live Market. And we have a path connecting them that has been seen in at least 4 other Chinese Lab Containment Breaches in the past few years. Somebody who didn't give no fucks and wanted some extra holiday scratch was selling the lab animals which ended up in the live market.

 

[dopy]

dr john just dropped a new video:

 

[Tasty Tatty]

The final solution to the British Question in Spain is very simple.

For those who don't get it, Brits have a thing for dying by balcony in Spain.

Jokes (and salt) aside I do find it hilarious that all spanish infectees are from other european countries yet our hotel staff and waiters have been left alone by the disease, usually as soon as a tourist catches something those dumbasses in catalonia start catching it like flies. This shit really can be contained by bare bones western sanitation if they haven't yet. So china has a LOT to explain right now.

Check the chart I posted above: Iberians are actually a risk population.

 

[Inquisitor_BadAss]

For anyone that doesn't get it: brits love coming to spain to leech off of our healthcare

Did this trend start before or after your doctors stopped selling peoples new born children?

 

[IAmNotAlpharius]

The final solution to the British Question in Spain is very simple.

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For those who don't get it, Brits have a thing for dying by balcony in Spain.



Check the chart I posted above: Iberians are actually a risk population.

For a lot of mestizos they’d get a double whammy since some also have eastern asian ancestry through native Americans in addition to Iberian ancestry.

 

[Mike Stoklasa]

For those who don't get it, Brits have a thing for dying by balcony in Spain.

Sounds like a lovely activity and I hope the British do more of it.

 

[Tasty Tatty]

For a lot of mestizos they’d get a double whammy since some also have eastern asian ancestry through native Americans in addition to Iberian ancestry.

S. America has Chinese ancestry due to Native Americans and then actual Chinese immigration from a few decades ago. People here are practically genetically Chinese without knowing it.

 

[Otterly]

I wonder how many corona virus deaths in China are preventable.

Lots. That JAMA paper a few pages back said 41% were probably hospital acquired. They should be isolating people at home. Instead they are collecting people together and creating conditions where not only will the virus spread like wildfire but they run a higher chance of selecting for a driving a more virulent strain.

There is no way a virus will just simply escape from a bio-safety level 4 lab, unless one is willing to entertain the idea of either French or Chinese researchers intentionally infecting people.

Ok with not too much power levelling I can say from experience this isn’t true. With all the SOPs and autism and highly trained people in the world, even western labs have leaks, drainage issues, BioWaste removal and disposal issues and contractors fucking up ventilation issues. Oh the airflow goes that way... shit... oh the storm this weekend has damaged the roof and flooded which area?... shit... People slip and stick themselves with needles. Stuff happens. The foot and mouth outbreak in 07 was from the pirbright lab, via a dodgy pipe. It shouldn’t happen but people are human, and sometimes it does.
I’ve worked with China on medical research projects. The idea of a BSL4 lab somewhere like China gives me chills. (Frankly even the ones in the western countries do)
Is this released? I don’t think we have enough data to say either way, nature is perfectly capable of cooking this stuff up herself, especially given a wet market hot zone to play with. But it’s just as likely it was something sampled from the wild and stored. After SARS, people have been collecting wild samples for study. It doesn’t have to have been a super engineered weapon, it could just be sample 389b among a thousand others, from some random bat infested cave somewhere, being grown up for aliquotting out and storage, or raising antibodies, or looking at a specific protein.
We will probably never know where it came from. A bio lab fuck up is one possibility among many.

 

[Rei is shit]

Kim Jong Un just canceled some big parade for no apparent reason. SK media just started running some stories that coronachan is spreading in best korea.

Things might get really messy. If only there was some way to see PLA deployments near NK.

EDIT: some real neat guns popping up in China. I've seen some C96s and now we got a Maxim.

 

[Yotsubaaa]

Hey guys, here's the post lists for Wednesday-Friday. (Sorry for the lateness! This thread moves like crazy and I've been busy and lazy.)

Not current! Haven't got to the weekend stuff yet. I'll try to get that done soon.

Spoiler: Wednesday, 5 February 2020 (continued from post on page 259)

○ China's National Health Commission reports 193 new confirmed cases of coronavirus, but then deletes their updated numbers (@Computer Boy post)
○ China's National Health Commission releases the new update, numbers haven't changed (@Computer Boy post)
○ Japan confirms 20 out of 102 tested returned positive for coronavirus infection (@Computer Boy post)
○ US House of Representatives hold hearings on coronavirus: health experts tell Congress that travel bans and quarantines will not stop the outbreak, and only serves to 'penalize' China for reporting cases (@Glad I couldn't help post)
○ Wuhan CCP official apologizes for failure to provide coronavirus patients with proper treatment (@Computer Boy post)
○ China's People's Liberation Army allegedly suspends large-scale exercises, training, vacations and studies due to "severe epidemic" (@Computer Boy post)
○ Update: 226 total confirmed cases of coronavirus outside of China, with 1(?) dead and 9 recovered (@Rudy Russo post)
○ Mongolian citizen reportedly isolated for suspected coronavirus, but tested negative (@northstar747 post)
○ Update: 6 now infected with coronavirus in California (@TheRedChair post)
○ Suspected case of coronavirus in Bolivia and 3 Japanese tourists receiving medical treatment in Uyuni (@SparklyFetuses post)
○ Wuhan lockdown: residents to receive body temperature checks from Thursday as a comprehensive search for suspected cases begins (@Ahriman post)
○ A Chinese trade expert "close to the government" suggests China might use a 'natural disaster' clause to launch a consultation with the US about the US-China trade deal (@Ahriman post)


Informative takes and extras:
@LetThemEatCake on viruses escaping facilities due to improper disposal procedure
@LetThemEatCake elaborates on how bio-waste disposal is often the weak link in any protective procedure
@Ivan Shatov notes that, by their reported numbers, Hubei's coronavirus victims are dying at much higher rates than even any other province in China
Informative video of a Doctor comparing the coronavirus to SARS and MERS (@Shick post)

Spoiler: Thursday, 6 February 2020

○ Shipment of masks for Chongqing and Huangshi intercepted and seized by the Dali town government (@Coleslaw post)
○ Photo of Wuhan's makeshift coronavirus hospital shows rows upon rows of adjacent hospital bunk-beds in massive open rooms (@Sulla post)
○ Canadian man charged after claiming that he was infected with coronavirus on a WestJet flight in order to create a 'viral video' (@LetThemEatCake post)
○ China's ambassador in Belgium mad about "anti-China" cartoons amid the coronavirus outbreak, says China is doing everything it can and is very transparent; also only infected Belgian doesn't know where/how he contracted the virus (@Mariposa Colorado post)
○ Update: 28322 confirmed cases of coronavirus, 565 deaths, 1261 recovered (@lottalove post)
○ Nintendo announce delays in Switch production due to coronavirus fears (@Glad I couldn't help post)
○ Another photo from one of the warehouse hospitals in Wuhan: patients packed together, wearing winter coats in bed (@LetThemEatCake post)
○ Patent haggling: Wuhan Institute of Virology applies for Remdesivir patent to "fight coronaviruses" back in January, but US company Gilead Sciences who make the drug applied for a patent three years prior (@Feline Supremacist post)
○ Two newborns reported to have contracted coronavirus (@TheRedChair post)
○ Goods being stranded at sea as the coronavirus outbreak hits shipping, and China to halve extra levies on 1717 US products (@Unsweet post)
○ Pet owner seeks legal remedies as neighborhood council buries their cat alive when they weren't home (@Coleslaw post)
○ 3rd confirmed case of coronavirus in the UK, and another confirmed case in Germany (@Apathy is my superpower post)
○ Update: 28350 confirmed cases of coronavirus, 565 dead, 1382 recovered (@MechanicusAdmin post)
○ Video: quarantine station director emphatic that "this is not a hospital!", they can't help with medication or treatment or help patients "that can't help themselves" (@Synesthesia post)
○ From Bolivia: three Japanese tourists have been cleared, another resident showing symptoms of coronavirus has been hospitalized (@Tasty Tatty post)
○ Chinese doctor Li Wenliang, who was accused of spreading rumors after trying to warn colleagues about the coronavirus, has reportedly died after becoming infected (@Computer Boy post)
○ Chinese employer detained for 5 days for wanting their employees to work earlier, and Chinese schools introducing online streaming/extra Winter homework for their students (@AltisticRight post)
○ Video: State media on current coronavirus containment measures (@Namaste Bitches post)
○ Update: Japan leading in confirmed coronavirus cases with 45 reported, ahead of Singapore with 28 and Thailand with 25 (@LetThemEatCake post)
○ Chinese man causes apartment fire on a floor that's being disinfected by tossing cigarette butts out of a window (@AltisticRight post)
○ Leaked video of Wuhan Fangcang hospital: no washrooms or anywhere to wash, no doctors, everyone packed in close together, not enough beds, late arrivals have to sleep on the floor (@la mort post)
○ Li Wenliang reportedly still alive, but in critical condition (@Computer Boy post)
○ Paraguay closes borders to Chinese arrivals and suspends all visas, waiting for US labs to confirm tests of coronavirus for isolated suspected case (@Tasty Tatty post)
○ Li Wenliang actually dies from the coronavirus, confirmed by Wuhan Central Hospital (@Computer Boy post)
○ WHO tweets about Li Wenliang's passing, then later admits they have no information on Li's status (@la mort post)
○ Video of Chinese people blasting a street block with disinfectant aerosol (@Noideawhattopick post)
○ Update: 2447 new coronavirus cases and 69 new deaths reported from China's outbreak epicenter (@Computer Boy post)
○ US Pentagon reportedly preparing a dozen military installations near major airports to be used to house coronavirus evacuees (@la mort post)
○ Detroit Metro Airport to get passengers diverted from China amid coronavirus outbreak (@TaimuRadiu post)
○ Chen Qiushi's mother apparently lost contact with him after he said he was going to the Fangcang quarantine (@Shick post)
○ Infant being tested for coronavirus in Derry, Ireland (@ulsterscotsman post)
○ Coronavirus-infected person travels while sick to Wisconsin, potentially infecting many others on the plane (@Evilronald post)
○ Video of Chinese couple being snatched up off of the street and stuffed into a metal box on the back of a truck (@The Vinyl Solution post)
○ 6 out of 8 African airlines suspend flights to China (@Autistic lurker post)
○ Japan reports 41 new cases of coronavirus on cruise ship near Tokyo, bringing their total to 86 confirmed cases (@Computer Boy post)
○ China's numbers the last few days have aligned perfectly with that Twitter user's basic algorithm outputs (@pairaducks post)
○ Switch port of 'The Outer Worlds' delayed due to the coronavirus outbreak (@Dr. Geronimo post)
○ Hundreds of suspected coronavirus cases being investigated in India (@HumanHive post)
○ Update: Outside of China/Hong Kong/Macau, 276 confirmed cases of coronavirus, 1 dead and 11 recovered (@Rudy Russo post)
○ Change.org petition to call for the resignation of the WHO Director General gets more than 320K signatures (@HonsPonzud post)
○ UK's 3rd case of coronavirus had traveled back from Singapore (@LetThemEatCake post)
○ [Apparent hoax] News report: China seek court approval to kill 20000 coronavirus patients to avoid further spread of the virus (@HTTP Error 404 post)


Informative takes and extras:
@Sulla reiterates: the coronavirus can transmit through mucous membranes (e.g. eyes)
Video of armored Chinese 'knight' on horseback patrolling the entrance to his village to stop the spread of coronavirus (@GrotesqueBushes post)
Interview with a front-line coronavirus doctor detailing the three stages of the coronavirus: mild with cold-like symptoms, then respiratory issues, then organ failure, but most recover by the first stage (@Unsweet post)
Laowhy86's new video on the coronavirus and the CCP using the virus to promote its leadership, with timestamps (@אΩ+1 post)
@Home Again found many Twitter videos of people dead from the coronavirus, suggesting a death toll much higher than is being reported
@AltisticRight's translation of the Chinese law allowing the state to requisition private property in the event of an infectious virus outbreak

Theorist on /pol/ speculates almost 14k bodies burned in Wuhan based on human body composition vs tracked SO2 emissions on the 3rd of February (@LemmeSee post)
@AltisticRight tears apart the /pol/ SO2 emissions theory

@Judge Holden called it! (Semper!)
@Otterly on the problem with China faking coronavirus statistics
@אΩ+1 on why many mapping services, e.g. Google Maps, have inaccurate China maps (recommends using OpenStreetMaps instead)
@Rei is shit on the economic impacts of the coronavirus so far
Memology 101's video on China's nationwide order to round up infected people (@TheRedChair post)
Video: during US evacuation of citizens from Wuhan, personnel dressed in full NBC containment gear with positive-pressure filtered masks (@HonsPonzud post)

Spoiler: Friday, 7 February 2020

○ Bolsonaro orders two planes to rescue Brazilian residents trapped in Wuhan before Congress finishes approving the law to allow so, and two suspected cases of coronavirus in Brazil have been cleared (@Tasty Tatty post)
○ Report from a teacher in Chengdu about the lockdown, mandatory temperature checks, government 'assurances', and tentative livestreaming of university classes in the new year (@Tasty Tatty post)
○ 5123 people reportedly under home surveillance in India as a precaution against the coronavirus, 741 tested, 738 negative, 3 positive coronavirus infection (@ballslols post)
○ Chinese social media Weibo and Wechat outraged over Li Wenliang's death (@Still Anonymous For This post)
○ Outrage and suspicion over Li Wenliang's death makes international headlines (@LetThemEatCake post)
○ First Italian resident tests positive for coronavirus, and China grills Italy for its "excessive reaction" and "inconveniences brought to Chinese travelers" (@Mammamia in Naziland post)
○ Video: journalists in China apparently reveal Li Wenliang was put back on life support after he died so China could "control the flow of information" (@theshep post)
○ Shenzhen closing roads in preparation for apparent lockdown (@Keystone post)
○ Malaysia confirms a new case of coronavirus infection (@Dirty Mug post)
○ 60 confirmed cases of coronavirus reported for passengers on quarantined cruise ship in Yokohama (@Glad I couldn't help post)
○ San Francisco officials urge the public to attend Lunar New Year celebrations despite the coronavirus outbreak (@Rudy Russo post)
Update: 31515 reported cases of coronavirus, 638 deaths, 1650 recovered (@MechanicusAdmin post)
○ Chinese scientists have apparently found pangolins to be a link between bats and humans in coronavirus, Singapore confirms three additional cases of infection that cannot be traced to China or other known cases, and a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Op-Ed argues against travel bans (@Glad I couldn't help post)
○ Diners at a Melbourne Glen Waverley Chinese restaurant warned that they may have been exposed to coronavirus, and to check for symptoms (@אΩ+1 post)
○ Apparent news from North Korea: the border closures with China have driven up commodity prices, and the state media has allegedly covered up the deaths of five people with "fevers" (@Glad I couldn't help post)
○ Britain's leading virologists meet in London to brief on the coronavirus outbreak, admit that a working vaccine may not be ready until 2021 and argue for travel restrictions to mitigate coronavirus spread (@LetThemEatCake post)
○ Dr Li Wenliang revered as a martyr, as mourners hold vigil and fan art circulates on social media (@LetThemEatCake post)
○ Xi Jinping strikes back at international travel bans, tells Trump that Beijing has "declared a people's war" to defeat the coronavirus (@Computer Boy post)
○ @Youthanasia's Chinese Twitter post translations: woman comments on the lack of toilets or running water available in one of the Wuhan stadium quarantine stations, the patients are even being given numbers, and a research institute president warns the Chinese people that the West will use Li's death to undermine the CCP
○ UK citizens evacuated from Wuhan to be quarantined in an NHS facility for 2 weeks, and Japan now leading in non-China coronavirus cases with 86 confirmed (@LetThemEatCake post)
○ Breitbart reports: China begins implementing their nationwide order to round up infected people and isolate them in "quarantine camps" (@Ivan Shatov post)
○ Li Wenliang's death becoming catalyst for 'freedom of speech' demands in China (@Computer Boy post)
○ Chile decrees a National Health Emergency amid the coronavirus outbreak, and Paraguay starts taking preventative measures too (@SparklyFetuses post)
○ Two crematoriums in Wuhan cremating about 341 bodies per day (@Computer Boy post)
○ 14th case of coronavirus confirmed in Germany and a 12th case in Bavaria, and 40 medical staff infected by patients at a single Wuhan coronavirus hospital (@Memology 101 post)
○ Flight of China evacuees that went to Omaha will be sent to Camp Ashland (@Rudy Russo post)
○ Update: 34375 confirmed cases of coronavirus worldwide, 26359 suspected cases, 719 deaths, 5894 in critical condition, 1838 recovered, across 25 countries reporting cases (@Memology 101 post)
○ iPhone maker Foxconn urges Shenzhen staff not to return to work (@Extremist Frank post)
○ List of 203 people who were punished for spreading information about the coronavirus outbreak in China (@Computer Boy post)
○ Update 2 hours later: 503 more confirmed cases, 1298 more suspected cases, 5 more deaths, 213 more in critical condition, and 212 more recovered (@Memology 101 post)
○ Videos of many trucks spraying disinfectant in China, and an unknown deep-pit construction site inside the quarantine zone (@HonsPonzud post)
○ American in Wuhan dies from the coronavirus (@HonsPonzud post)
○ Update: outside China/Hong Kong/Malau, 282 infected, 1 dead, 14 recovered (@Rudy Russo post)
○ Japanese man dies of severe pneumonia at a Wuhan hospital, was thought to be infected with coronavirus but wasn't listed in the death statistics (@Memology 101 post)
○ Currently untranslated video posted by a friend on Chen Qiushi's Youtube account: Qiushi was quarantined for 14 days, but nobody can get in contact with him directly or via phone (@PumpkinSpiceBitchMeringue post)


Informative takes and extras:
@MarvinTheParanoidAndroid's reminder of how the Chinese are defining their coronavirus deaths in order to downplay the reported numbers
@Glad I couldn't help elaborates on China's economy and its probable future
@AltisticRight's deep dive on the whole Li Wenliang situation: why Li and the others weren't being misleading when they called the coronavirus "SARS-like", China's actual gay-op to obfuscate Li's time of death and 'resuscitation', and the documents China had Li sign in response to his "rumor spreading"
@AltisticRight revisits the /pol/ body burning theory; many of the mapping sites aren't accurate, and Wuhan is actually pumping out a lot more SO2 than /pol/'s suggested location anyway
@Rei is shit has a transcript of a short interview with Li Wenliang, back when he was expecting to recover from the coronavirus
Video: Woman uses a remote control car to buy groceries during the coronavirus quarantine lockdown (@Computer Boy post)
Serpentza's new video on the coronavirus and China's lies about the situation (@TheRedChair post)
@Still Anonymous For This on the P100 masks: perhaps don't buy them, unless you have the specialized training and knowledge required to use them properly
@remiem on cremation machines and their self-sterilizing operating temperatures
@Angry New Ager elaborates: any coronavirus spread from the crematoriums will come from transporting the bodies or the overworked, exhausted crematorium workers messing up disinfection protocol
@RodgerDodger on protective masks and taking reasonable precautions
@TheRedChair on how China's mist blowers are just for show, and they're not going to stop the coronavirus spread

 

[⠠⠠⠅⠑⠋⠋⠁⠇⠎ ⠠⠠⠊⠎ ⠠⠠⠁ ⠠⠠⠋⠁⠛]

Wow, argument's over guys. Noted scientist Dean Koontz has PROVEN that the novel coronavirus is definitely a Chinese bioweapon.

https://books.google.com.hk/books?i...age&q="they call the stuff wuhan-400"&f=false

 

[EmuWarsVeteran]

Did this trend start before or after your doctors stopped selling peoples new born children?

Actually that trend ended with the healthcare revamp that occured during the transition, which is the same law package which allowed for and therefore started healthcare tourism, so you could say one started exactly as the other ended. Like the exact vote that ended one started the other. Funny how that shit works. Also btw more often than not doctors weren't the one doing the sell, just the kidnapping, the sellers were nuns.

 

[Ow The Edge]

Chinese official confirms airborne transition:

A Chinese official has confirmed a scary new fact about the deadly coronavirus: it is airborne.

It was previously understood that two main ways the virus transmitted from person to person were:
• Direct transmission: breathing in air close to an infected patient who sneezes or coughs, and
• Contact transmission: when a person touches an object tainted with the virus before infecting themselves by touching their mouth, nose or eyes.

People wearing protective face masks in Hong Kong. Picture: Dale De La Rey/AFPSource:AFP

However, over the weekend, an official in Shanghai confirmed the virus also travelled through aerosol transmission, which means it can float a long distance through the air and cause infection later when it is breathed in.
“Aerosol transmission refers to the mixing of the virus with droplets in the air to form aerosols, which causes infection after inhalation, according to medical experts,” Shanghai Civil Affairs Bureau deputy head Zeng Qun said at press briefing on Saturday, the China Daily reports.
“As such, we have called on the public to raise their awareness of the prevention and control of the disease caused by family gatherings.”

RELATED: Disturbing footage of virus crackdown
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The previously unknown virus has caused alarm because of its similarity to SARS, which killed hundreds across mainland China and Hong Kong in 2002 and 2003. Picture: Dale De La Rey/AFPSource:AFP
The concerns about airborne spread of the disease are so dire that the government has urged residents to cancel all social activities and avoid gatherings altogether.
People are also urged to open windows in the home to help with ventilation, and disinfect door handles, dinner tables and toilet seats.
This worrying development comes as the death toll from the virus in mainland China hits 811, making it more deadly than the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic.

Chinese workers wear protective suits as they work inside a mall on in Beijing. Picture: Kevin Frayer/Getty ImagesSource:Getty Images

A further 89 people, most in the virus’s epicentre of Hubei, have been pronounced dead from the outbreak, which pushes the death toll beyond the 774 killed worldwide by SARS, which took hold in 2002 and 2003.
The number of people infected in China is now almost 37,200.

 

[KhorneFlakes]

Everyday now I think more and more that I chose the wrong Chaos God to use as an online name...

 

[Bob's Fries]

Chinese official confirms airborne transition:

No fucking wonder the infection rate is so goddamn high. Godfuckingdammit Xi, you absolute fucktard.