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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
24,000++ Dead – The Real China Numbers Are Dramatically Higher
2020-02-06
[Guns America] What are we to believe with the numbers coming out of China? The World Health Organization this week declared a global pandemic. How is that possible with only a few very closely guarded infections in countries outside of China, and only about 500 people killed in China by the epidemic?

Somebody is wrong or lying. Either the WHO should not have pulled the trigger on calling it a pandemic, or the Chinese are lying. None of the information adds up. But there have been glances at what may be the true picture of what is going on in Wuhan.

Look at the above image. It is from a recent article on a recent article on Zero Hedge. The picture is a screengrab from the website Tencent, and their official "Epidemic Situation Tracker."

There are two images next to each other in the picture, with the same data, one day apart. On the left it shows the numbers for February 1st, 154,023 infected, and 24,589 dead. Then the next day, on the right, the numbers are severely reduced to what were the official government numbers of the day.

Meanwhile, out of Wuhan, there are reports that the crematoriums are running 24/7, and burning 100 bodies per day. The government has banned funerals. The people are dying, and they take them immediately out to be burned.

Here in the US, things are as normal. Even the stock market has recovered on news that a vaccine is on the way.
Posted by:Besoeker

#10  ^Iblis.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-02-06 13:54  

#9  Sorry, I was wrong - I thought of something else. It is virus specified protease. But, if it has a similar active site & inhibitor is active site directed, than it may work on different types of viruses. My guess, they tried it because they have it and, what do they've to lose? And it worked. A few months from now, we'll see a paper explaining why it worked.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-02-06 13:54  

#8  Either the WHO should not have pulled the trigger on calling it a pandemic, or the Chinese are lying.

...or c) both.

Occam would vote for c)
Posted by: Lex   2020-02-06 13:24  

#7  grom - please explain. I don't pretend to understand this stuff, but a quick Google search says that the drugs involved are both protease inhibitors. These inhibit the virus's ability to replicate itself. From what I see, they aren't changing the host at all.
Posted by: Iblis   2020-02-06 13:21  

#6  "I love what you've done with your genome. It's totally retro!"
Posted by: SteveS   2020-02-06 11:43  

#5  The last thing I saw on the subject suggested that the drugs to affect retroviruses were being effective because they were both retroviruses, and didn't rely on closer similarities.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2020-02-06 11:36  

#4  could be that a first
wave of the virus was especially lethal as it infected Wuhana

as the virus mutated successive waves have been less so

it happens sometimes that the transmissibility and lethality of successive waves of a virus change

this happened with the 2009 h1n1



Posted by: lord garth   2020-02-06 10:54  

#3  The drugs affect the host, iblis
Posted by: g(r)omgoru PB   2020-02-06 10:30  

#2  And Thailand is treating it with AIDS drugs. Which shouldn't work, because it's a completely different family of virus. Something is definitely up.
Posted by: Iblis   2020-02-06 09:42  

#1  With people crammed together in unsanitary conditions and little modern medicine available, not really surprising with those numbers.

If the virus really spreads in Western nations I would expect to see much, much, much lower death rates. Bad, but not apocalyptic.
Posted by: DarthVader   2020-02-06 09:39  

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