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ALERT: Coronavirus Pandemic Event Now A Serious Risk

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Chris Martenson issues an alert. I think that he's a really smart dude. Here's his write-up:

The coronavirus is currently sweeping across China. So far, it has all the hallmarks of a potential true pandemic outbreak.

While it could still (and hopefully will) be contained and burn itself out, the chances of that are slipping by the hour.

If an actual pandemic breaks out, expect the following to happen quickly:




    • Travel within and especially between countries will be restricted if not completely banned
    • Critical shortages of materials will develop, especially medical supplies, doubly especially antivirals.
    • In cities with lockdowns or quarantines, food will disappear rapidly from shelves.
Pro tip: N95 face masks are already rapidly disappearing form Amazon and other retailers. If you can’t order online, then get yourself down to Home Depot pronto to get a stash of masks for you and your family (something we’ve recommended as a part of routine preparations for years). However, don’t be a hoarder. Buy only what you really need. The time to responsibly stock up was before now.

A Quick Primer On Viruses
When I was getting my PhD through the Duke Medical school, there was a debate as to whether viruses even qualified as being a lifeform. That debate still carries on.

A virus is a protein encapsulated set of genetic instructions. Just some DNA or RNA surrounded by a complex shell that can ‘dock’ with a specific living host cell. All viruses completely lack the ability to reproduce themselves. They require the hijacking of the active replicating machinery of a host cell to reproduce and multiply.

Viruses are everywhere. A single drop of clear seawater may contain 10 million virus particles on average. You encounter them everyday. Your body already has natural immunity against hundreds of different virus types.

The problem comes in when a new virus enters the game, one which your body has not seen before, and against which you have no immunity.

An even bigger problem emerges when ‘the herd’ has not seen it before either and there’s no herd immunity to block its spread.

The biggest problem emerges when such a new virus emerges (usually by ‘jumping’ from a non-human species to humans) has the ability to spread easily between humans. By contrast, a virus that requires some sort of a host vector such as a mosquito or a tick is much more easily contained.

The Coronavirus
The coronavirus currently in question derives its name from the spiky crown of proteins (Corona = Crown) that are seen under magnification.



It first erupted on Wuhan China, and is thought to possibly have jumped from a snake species to humans:

Wuhan coronavirus may have been transmitted to people from snakes

Jan 22, 2020

A new coronavirus that has claimed 17 lives in Wuhan, China, may have been transmitted to people from snakes, according to a genetic analysis. The snakes may have caught the virus from bats in the food market in which both animals were sold.

This was bound to happen sooner or later. Especially among a tightly-packed human population with a proclivity for eating many different forms of wild animals.

This virus has all the statistical and virologic markers to be a true pandemic – the sort that the world has been luckily spared for many decades. But which nature and history shows us is always an inevitability.

According to the WHO’s guidance document on pandemics, this new coronavirus is already well on its way to being a full-blown pandemic:



We are already at Phase 4. Things get really serious at Phases 5 & 6.

All we need to move to Phase 5 is for another country to report a sustained outbreak — something that seems all but certain at this point. Then it will be Game On.

“It’s Contained!”
Early reports on the media have been underselling the severity. This is expected.

For some reason governments across the world long ago decided that ‘not panicking’ people was more important than providing timely, accurate, risk-balanced information.

The straight-up lying about the Fukushima disaster was one example.

China lied like crazy about the SARS outbreak a number of years ago. And they’re certainly being less than fully revealing about this outbreak.

As of this morning (6:35 am, 1/23/20) there are two major Chinese cities under a full quarantine. Wuhan with 11 million people and Huanggang with another 6 million people:

Health officials fear the transmission rate will accelerate as hundreds of millions of Chinese travel at home and abroad during week-long holidays for the Lunar New Year, which begins on Saturday.

The previously unknown virus strain is believed to have emerged late last year from illegally traded wildlife at an animal market in the central Chinese city of Wuhan.

Most transport in Wuhan, a city of 11 million people, was suspended on Thursday morning and people were told not to leave. Hours later, state media in neighboring Huanggang, a city of some 6 million people, said it was imposing a similar lockdown.

(Source – Reuters)

Compounding the difficulty for Chinese authorities is that all of this coincides with the Lunar New Year, when hundreds of millions of Chinese typically travel about.

That’s just a recipe for disaster here.



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So treatment is just symptom mitigation, intravenous this, drink a lot of fluids, etc.? Kind of like what they did for the Ebola outbreak in 2014? They’re saying it’s deadly and flu-like, but I’m assuming its deadliness factor lies in high-risk individuals, the young, the old, the chronically ill, etc.? If it was comparable to pneumonia, the croup, or pertussis, I could see this being a serious problem, but I haven’t heard of that comparison being made. Also, props to you @Tall Boy for doing post-grad/doctoral at Duke Med.
 
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Spreading pretty fast. International Air travel is great ain't it. :rolleyes:

THIRD coronavirus case suspected in Texas as second possible victim hospitalized in LA | Daily Mail Online

Texas health officials are investigating a suspected case of the deadly new coronavirus in a person who recently traveled to Wuhan - the Chinese city where the disease originated.

The Brazos County Health District announced the possible new case on Thursday.

The patient, who was not named, has been isolated in their home after health care providers recognized their symptoms as consistent with the coronavirus - which has killed 25 people and sickened more than 800 across at least nine countries.



 
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Coronavirus is nothing more than a flu virus on steroids, hyped up by the media to divert attention from the failing democrat impeachment sham.
Time will tell because we know they'll never let us know the truth. The truth will only come from discernment , analyzing what was said , times,dates things said and time gone by,by using hindsight . Trying to understand fully their maze of nonsense is nearly impossible as it is happening. They do like their smokescreens, so what else is happening at the same time? I don't know about anyone else but I can't believe anything they (Government/media) says anymore. They've been caught lying too many times.
 
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US is evacuating US citizens from Wuhan, and probably will from other Chinese cities later.

Excerpt:
WSJ News Exclusive | U.S. Working to Evacuate American Citizens From Epidemic-Stricken Chinese City

SHANGHAI—The U.S. government is working to evacuate American citizens by air from the epidemic-stricken Chinese city of Wuhan as soon as possible, according to people familiar with the effort.

The operation comes as the death toll from a newly identified coronavirus that originated in Wuhan climbs above 40 and the number of confirmed infections tops 1,300, with many of the cases in and around the central Chinese city of 11 million people.

The fast spread of the disease in recent days across China and around the world, including two cases in the U.S., has raised fears of a deadly contagion.

Roughly 1,000 American citizens are thought to be in Wuhan, and the U.S. consulate there is reaching out to those it knows about to offer a seat on the plane, these people familiar with the matter said.
 
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More from BBC.

Excerpt:

China virus spread is accelerating, Xi warns

Where has it spread?
There are now 1,372 confirmed cases across China, though most are concentrated in those provinces closest to Hubei.

But it has also spread abroad - in isolated cases affecting small numbers of patients.

On Saturday, Australia confirmed its first four cases - first in Melbourne, and then three more in Sydney.

It has also spread to Europe, with three cases confirmed in France. Tests in the UK on 31 people have come back negative, the government has said. Officials are trying to trace around 2,000 people who have recently flown to the UK from Hubei province.

The cases largely involve people who had recently travelled from the affected region in China.

China's neighbours in the Asia region are on high alert, however, with cases reported in Thailand, Singapore, Japan, Taiwan, Malaysia, Vietnam, South Korea and Nepal.

There are also cases in the United States.
 
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I'd lay odds it's a man made bug accidentally or purposely let loose. There are a variety of reasons "they" would think applicable.

They being a government or terrorist organization.
 
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Here's the problem. Wuhan has a transmission rate of 2.5 (avg), which means that in 10 days or less, there is likely to be 190,000 infected people in that city/province. 48 hrs later, 2.5 times that many, 72hrs.....96 hr........ Exponential until there aren't enough hosts left to infect. If the direct fatality rate is let's say 1% that means 1900 deaths. This is also why other countries - including the US - are scared crapless. They cannot allow this to get out of control.

But the direct death rate is not the big issue. People will get scared and start self quarantining in their homes. They won't go to work. They won't go shopping. They won't go anywhere. And that includes people who collect the garbage. Garbage piles up in the streets, other diseases crop up (secondary effects), but people won't go to the Emergency room because it's full of sick people. People get hungry. The electrical grid collapses because the work force ain't going to work to keep it all spinning.

The Govt looses all control of the population. That's what the Governments are scared of. And they will take any measures to stop it from happening.

But that's just all worst case speculation. There's really nothing to worry about. ;)

 
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