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2020-02-13 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

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Posted by Fred 2020-02-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 China sees 242 coronavirus deaths, nearly 15,000 new cases in one day

IF you believe ChiCom propaganda...I'm of the opinion they're actually 10x worse

Posted by Frank G 2020-02-13 07:35|| 2020-02-13 07:35|| Front Page Top

#2 IF you believe ChiCom propaganda...I'm of the opinion they're actually 10x worse

Yes, but the lengthy chow line problem at the secret Chinese Muslim re-education camps may have been resolved.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-02-13 07:41|| 2020-02-13 07:41|| Front Page Top

#3 ZeroHedge whom I do not trust any further than I can throw their server just published a very good article about this virus. It is a LONG article but it clearly states what I said two days after the outbreak. This virus is manmade, it is a manipulated virus originating from a supposedly BioHazard Level IV biological research facility that is essentially within a couple of blocks of the infamous meat market.
The General in charge of the PLA's bioweapons program has taken over the lab in Wuhan and has brought in the PLA to run the containment etc., of this virus.
A graph in the ZeroHedge article indicates that the virus infection is approaching an exponential rate.
The precursor virus was stolen from a lab in Canada by the Chinese and all of the Chinese staff of that lab were fired when the theft was discovered. The fired staff almost in toto were running the "research" lab in Wuhan.
This is a biological weapon that was accidentally released before they could perfect a vaccine for it.
Let's all hope the PLA, the EU, and the US can adequately contain this mess.
Tied to this is the potentially high number of infected individuals coming in from Latin America.
Lastly the Anti-Vaxxers and their pathological germ phobic behavior with their children leave their children with underdeveloped immune systems and exposure to this virus for them in particular will be catastrophic.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2020-02-13 08:43|| 2020-02-13 08:43|| Front Page Top

#4 Soylent Red

Posted by Lex 2020-02-13 08:44|| 2020-02-13 08:44|| Front Page Top

#5 Lastly the Anti-Vaxxers ...leave their children with underdeveloped immune systems and exposure to this virus for them in particular will be catastrophic.

Jenny McCarthy, ask not for whom Darwin tolls...

Posted by Lex 2020-02-13 08:49|| 2020-02-13 08:49|| Front Page Top

#6 what to call this is also new

I had been calling it Coronavirus 2019 (or 2020), others had called it nCov2019 or other things

The WHO now calls it COVID 2019 and the CDC agrees

regarding the origin

The vast majority of the persons who were first found to be infected had visited the Huanan seafood and live animal market in Wuhan. I've never visited this (and have no desire to go) but if you've seen pictures of this, it will go a ways toward convincing you of the plausibility of this market as the source. ZeroHedge's theory that the Bioweapon went first to the market is possible but IMO quite unlikely.

Posted by lord garth 2020-02-13 09:10|| 2020-02-13 09:10|| Front Page Top

#7 per SPOD's comment:

Sudden Militarization Of Wuhan's P4 Lab Raises New Questions About The Origin Of The Deadly Covid-19 Virus

Posted by Skidmark 2020-02-13 09:11|| 2020-02-13 09:11|| Front Page Top

#8 Notably, the first three known cases from early December had no contact with that market, and roughly one-third of the initial exposed cohort had no direct ties to Wusan’s wild meat market

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-02-13 09:55|| 2020-02-13 09:55|| Front Page Top

#9 the main reason I discount ZH's theory is that there is no need for it -- virus mutation, infection, etc. can all Huanan market in Wutan

the SARS virus is now reliably traced via DNA retro tracing to bats

another reason is that creating a virus as a military weapon is a terrible idea for a lot of reasons

- risk to your own high value medical team that works at the lab
- risk to your own population
- the fact that if you did come up with a weapon it would mutate in uncontrollable ways and almost certainly would not do what you designed it to do

this is not to say that all research in virology is bad, in fact such research is obviously worth doing

and yes, in medicine as in other fields you get people who are megalomaniac or careless and so it is not impossible that ZH is correct

Posted by lord garth 2020-02-13 10:01|| 2020-02-13 10:01|| Front Page Top

#10 Excellent analysis Lord G.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-02-13 10:05|| 2020-02-13 10:05|| Front Page Top

#11 TwoRussian women quarantined over coronavirus escape hospitals

Posted by Frank G 2020-02-13 11:06|| 2020-02-13 11:06|| Front Page Top

#12 North Korea 'shoots dead coronavirus patient' after he's 'seen at public baths'

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un quickly placed those returning from China in a quarantine. But according to reports an official was spotted breaching the order

Posted by Frank G 2020-02-13 13:31|| 2020-02-13 13:31|| Front Page Top

#13 Federal Reserve is now closely monitoring global risks the virus is causing. Economies collapsing yet anyone???

Posted by Goober Tingle7365 2020-02-13 15:56|| 2020-02-13 15:56|| Front Page Top

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