Wuhan Corona Virus Coming Soon? (Now Here)

[randomq]

East Hawaii seems particularly susceptible to this strain of meme. If we could somehow add in a moon landing hoax angle it would be unstoppable.

Still, keeping an open mind, there are a lot of billionaires that might want to save the planet for themselves by any means necessary...

[PaulW]

Aaaand there’s another one. Murderous billionaires, what a thing to worry about.
I am encouraged by the fact that if you google this virus then very few nutty websites appear.

In the meantime, wash your hands! That seems to stop many diseases pretty effectively.

I predict Honolulu first, then Maui, then Kona.

[Punatic007]

The WHO warns against trolls? Really, is that his job? And by what definition? It's a free country and we can read and write just about anything we want and if someone wants to indulge in a conspiracy theory or not it's their own dam business. I've read the WHO is primarily funded by pharmaceutical companies so I can assume some of the info he wants to squash is primarily due to the influence on profits and losses, period.

[kander]

Lol, Conspiracy theories?

When the PLA agents have been caught not only stealing from US labs but also from biolabs in Canada. Its like a child who gets into the gun cabinet and steals a loaded gun to play with something bad is going to happen.
The Gene sequence is known, it looks engineered to many geneticists some saying that there can be no doubt because it shows the splice proteins where it was cut and pasted.
This thing was handled improperly at their BL4 facility in Wuhan and now pandoras box is opened.

So far so good, no new cases reported in the states. We might just dodge the bullet here?

~nolo carborundum bastardo.

[PaulW]

The WHO is an organisation, not a person. So we have yet another conspiracy theory, the World Health Organization is in cahoots with the pharmaceutical companies.
Hence we shouldn't believe anything they say, let's believe some kook on youtube (or Punaweb) instead.
You people are unbelievable.

[Guest]

Conspiracy theories? Lol is right!

Today the NY Times has a little ditty, human interest kine story, about one family's ordeal in dealing with the Corona Virus in Wuhan that makes all this nonsense about where and who and whatever the latest Russian propaganda is saying to infect the weaker minds among us just silly. America's greatness is now measured in silliness instead of compassionate concern. What a joke, eh? And, to think, some idiot said this is the path to greatness.

In the NY Times at:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/09/world...china.html

It begins..

Her Grandmother Got the Coronavirus. Then So Did the Whole Family.

“What kind of government is this?’ asks a family of three generations sickened by the new virus and desperate for care in Wuhan, the Chinese city at the center of the outbreak.

WUHAN, China — Bella Zhang hung an intravenous drip on a spindly tree branch and slumped down on a large stone planter outside the crowded hospital. Her mother and brother sat wearily beside her, their shoulders sagging, both also hooked up to their own drips.

In recent days, Ms. Zhang, 25, had watched helplessly as one by one, her relatives were sickened by the coronavirus that was tearing through her hometown, Wuhan. First, her grandmother got it, then it spread to her grandfather and mother. She and her younger brother were next.

The family had pleaded for help, but the city’s hospitals, faced with an extreme shortage of beds, could not take them. On Feb. 1, Grandfather Zhang died at home.

“They tell us to wait,” thundered Ms. Zhang’s mother, Yang Ling, 48, speaking to a reporter from The New York Times who visited the hospital.

She nearly ripped the intravenous needle out of her hand as she waved her arms in frustration. “But wait until when? We’ve already lost one.”

The city of Wuhan, where the new coronavirus originated, is struggling to get the epidemic under control, exacerbated by a lockdown as well as the government’s limited resources and options. Overwhelmed and understaffed, hospitals have turned away many sick residents like the Zhangs, forcing them to go home and quarantine themselves in small apartments where they risk infecting other family members.

Nearly 15,000 people have been sickened in the city, and more than 600 have been killed, accounting for three-quarters of the total deaths in China from the virus. Faced with growing public anger and desperate to stop the spread, the authorities in recent days have been rounding up patients with mild symptoms and putting them into makeshift quarantine centers, which create their own separate challenges for treatment.

Such centers have been set up in sports stadiums and exhibition venues to house several thousand patients in total, with beds arranged close together and in tight rows. The strategy has raised concerns about whether such dormitory-like facilities could inadvertently help spread other infectious diseases among the patients.

Ms. Zhang, who was admitted to one of the centers on Thursday with her mother, a retiree, saw it as their only option to keep from infecting her father.

It was cold in the tall, repurposed exhibition center; bathrooms were limited; and there was little privacy. But the beds were heated with electric mattress pads, and medical teams checked their temperatures three times a day and gave out free medicines and meals.

“At least someone cares now,” she said in a telephone call from the quarantine center...

The rest of the article is at the link above...

[Rob Tucker]

You all are wandering off the farm again. Keep it Hawaii please.

Assume the best and ask questions.

Punaweb moderator

[ironyak]

PaulW - How does it feel to be a tool of the Russians?
Don't worry about islandlvng, he's just trying to short the market - drive that fear with links implying coronavirus conspiracies. Enough panic set in to cover the bets yet?

PaulW - let's believe some kook on youtube (or Punaweb) instead.
Hey! Some of us resemble that remark! (although some more than others - Dr Paul Cotrell, of the bioweapon opinion, has shown that this is all part of a CIA plot because a Chinese dissident called for an uprising on June 4, 2020 which is 6 4 2+0+2+0 = 644 which divided by 2 is 322, the number of the Skull & Bones Yale secret society, which has CIA ties. How can one argue with that? )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cil3YX8X4Fw

I don't think this has been posted, but we have several people on house quarantine in Honolulu in addition to those two asylum seekers. nCov test kits were supposed to arrive yesterday (but they probably ended up being sent media mail as it has the best rates!
https://www.staradvertiser.com/2020/02/0...rom-china/

[1voyager1]

I have not checked this out myself.
But from their history, I have a pretty high level of confidence in their reporting.
More educated, knowledgeable information may be coming more available to the world, including us here.
It may help drive some of the rabble and those trying to profit from this into obscurity, ... not likely but possible.

Always remember:
Fear and panic are your worst enemies when dealing with threats.
That was driven home and proven by the reactions of many during the latest LERZ eruption.

https://torrentfreak.com/unofficial-coro...ge-200207/

[Punatic007]

Paul there you go picking on me again! I was referring to and forgot to type WHO spokesman. My point was we are blessed here in Puna to have conversations covering every angle if we so choose.