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It looks like the Wuhan corona virus hysteria has not made its way to this forum (yet).
Yes, I am not taking it seriously. Its a cold virus. Yes, it may be a worse than usual cold virus (always mutating) but the press is treating like the next plague, as they did with SARS, Zika, avian and swine flu.
To give an example, the Spanish Influenza epidemic of 1918. What killed most people infected with the flu? Well its was NOT the flu! It was secondary bacterial infections made possible by being weakened by the flu....as well as weakened by poor nutrition and even fatigue and other things resulting from 4 years of world war. Bacterial infections were caused by poor sanitation, hygiene and over-crowded hospitals...also largely the result of four years of world war.
So cut to today. Just what do you think the conditions are in PRC hospitals? Over-crowded? Poor sanitation, hygiene and nutrition? Yep. Plus you got old people in these hospitals who were sick before they ever got this new strain of cold virus. No deaths among those infected in other countries as yet. No surprise from me.
So why do I not see anyone talking it about yet here? Are you all that woke?
Yes, I am not taking it seriously. Its a cold virus. Yes, it may be a worse than usual cold virus (always mutating) but the press is treating like the next plague, as they did with SARS, Zika, avian and swine flu.
To give an example, the Spanish Influenza epidemic of 1918. What killed most people infected with the flu? Well its was NOT the flu! It was secondary bacterial infections made possible by being weakened by the flu....as well as weakened by poor nutrition and even fatigue and other things resulting from 4 years of world war. Bacterial infections were caused by poor sanitation, hygiene and over-crowded hospitals...also largely the result of four years of world war.
So cut to today. Just what do you think the conditions are in PRC hospitals? Over-crowded? Poor sanitation, hygiene and nutrition? Yep. Plus you got old people in these hospitals who were sick before they ever got this new strain of cold virus. No deaths among those infected in other countries as yet. No surprise from me.
So why do I not see anyone talking it about yet here? Are you all that woke?