Coronavirus and Wuhan

oldman

oldman

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When Wuhan was found to be the epicenter of the Coronavirus, China permitted five million people to leave the village prior to its lockdown. I have done some searching and haven’t been able to find any other city that had a breakout of the disease. I did read a few cities had a very few cases, but no real breakout

Do you think this is possible? Possible, maybe, but probable, not likely.
 

I'm leary on the numbers from China including the numbers of those afflicted and calendar dates. Not thrilled with them here either. What puzzles me is many feel the virus mutated to a more deadly form after it left China yet the epicenter was hit hard. Also read there are basically three strands of this at this point. Point being the number that is off is the date this thing started spreading.
 
I would be a bit sceptical about the reports coming from the Totalitarian nations like China, Russia, North Korea, etc. Even the reports from the U.S. and other Western nations are probably based upon limited knowledge about this new virus, and the lack of ability to reliably test the bulk of the population. Perhaps months from now, when/if there is a cure for this virus, and a far better idea of how it originated and spreads, we may get a far better picture of everything.
 

I also believe that because W.H.O. made what we now know to be a false truth in stating that the new strain of the COVID-19 could not be transmitted from human to human made all the difference to the world with regard to how and when countries would react.

The facts speak for themself. The President of W.H.O., Tedros Adhanom, has been in China’s back pocket for awhile. He actually praised China for the way they handled the virus in Wuhan. This is the same man that criticized the U.S. for closing it’s borders to aid in fighting the virus. “No need,” he stated.

I’ll stop here before it becomes political.
 
Below is the actual January 14 tweet in which the WHO took China at its word by reporting what had been reported to them.

The lesson: Woe to anyone who believes what the Chinese government says. Not that I think most other governments (including our own) are terribly different.




World Health Organization (WHO)
@WHO
Jan 14
Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in #Wuhan, #China

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The U.S., I believe, gave W.HO. about $890 million over the past two years, which amounts to about 15% of their budget. We do the same and maybe more for NATO. I never understood why the U.S. has to give away our money to these organizations that give very little back.

I’m not suggesting that these organizations should show the U.S. favoritism, but I think other countries need to be paying a fairer share.
 
StarSong said:
Below is the actual January 14 tweet in which the WHO took China at its word by reporting what had been reported to them.

The lesson: Woe to anyone who believes what the Chinese government says. Not that I think most other governments (including our own) are terribly different.


World Health Organization (WHO)
@WHO
Jan 14
Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in #Wuhan, #China

.
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Thank you for posting. I am a believer in foreign aid, BUT, not when we (the U.S. taxpayers) continue to get the short end of the stick. We deserve better. Several foreign countries show us very little respect and some, none at all, even though we pay their bills, feed their people, supply them medicine, and etc.
 

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