The death rate is dead/cases. The reason that statistic is not valid is that 32,000 cases are not resolved and are ongoing. So, that number is likely to go up.Loading…
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722 dead of 34,546 infected, so yes a 2% death rate.
Not sure why anyone would invest billions into a “weapon” that only kills 2% of the people it affects.
This is just another case of open air meat markets in Asia providing the perfect breeding ground for a zoonotic virus to be born and mutate into something deadly for humans. Exactly as predicted in Contagion.
For sure. A virus of "that" size surely wouldn't box in 60 million people.It was bats you dummies.
At first it was thought it was bats. Now, that is in doubt. Source still unconfirmed.It was bats you dummies.
Of course, if you want to simply destabilize a population and control them, then this type of bioweapon is perfect. Therefore, a virus like this makes perfect sense. If you were dedicated to having a secret bioweapons program, you want something that can achieve your political aim, not just as a terror weapon. Mass casualties does not have to be the aim of the weapon. A cause for a lockdown that will be self enforcing and policing, this makes for a perfect political bio weapon. Whatever you do, MplsGopher, don't run for President. Do us that favor.Regardless, if it was an engineered weapon, they’d be going for a death rate at least Ebola. Not 2-4%.
assuming that it was in its final stages of development.Not sure why anyone would invest billions into a “weapon” that only kills 2% of the people it affects.
Again, a bioweapon does not have to mean everybody dies.assuming that it was in its final stages of development.
Not buying your idea.Of course, if you want to simply destabilize a population and control them, then this type of bioweapon is perfect. Therefore, a virus like this makes perfect sense. If you were dedicated to having a secret bioweapons program, you want something that can achieve your political aim, not just as a terror weapon. Mass casualties does not have to be the aim of the weapon. A cause for a lockdown that will be self enforcing and policing, this makes for a perfect political bio weapon. Whatever you do, MplsGopher, don't run for President. Do us that favor.
Not buying this. But also not saying it is impossible or even unreasonable.Nurses in Wuhan are said to see 100 patients per day. Video shows people in Wuhan passing out in the streets with the disease. At least 100k people in Wuhan are said to be infected, far more than reports consolidated by "official" numbers. It is more contagious than Ebola by half.
Interesting fact about Wuhan. It is the location of the revolution of 1911 that overthrew the imperial regime. Prior to the lockdown, 5 million of its 11 million inhabitants had left the city. The disease went with them. Wuhan has some of the worst pollution on the planet. Life expectancy dropped by 5 years in the last decade. Over 200 Fortune 500 companies do business in Wuhan with subsidiaries. It is the deepest interior water port on the Yangtze river that conducts deep water, ocean going freight.
Wuhan is centrally located between Beijing and Hanoi and is west of Shanghai. It is a transportation hub of China. This has all the earmarks of a bioweapon event as far as where it would be deployed to the maximum extent. Plus, the disease progresses in 3 distinct phases over an 8 day acute phase. From near normal to lung and other tissue organ damage.
It is concerning that it has these later phases that are more intense than the initial phase. And, initial symptoms are so benign, in America, nobody would bother going to see a physician. By the time it reaches the acute phase, you are simply knocked on your ass, unexpectedly trying to breath with low O2 saturation. That is why there is lots of Chinese video of people just passing out in various places doing ordinary things.
Less than 10 percent of people have recovered who have been diagnosed since the beginning of these patients being patients under investigation. And, we are well into 6 weeks of the Chinese knowing about this disease. So, the numbers are not adding up very well. 24,000 official cases in Wuhan, and only a handful of recoveries. I would say that is an alarming statistic.
China does have a history of lying about things like this.Its been reported in the news that China's tally of the infected and dead is likely erroneous, but a fraction of the real numbers.
I do some sound research on NGO reporting, and this is your take. Fine. You don't like it. Got it.Not buying this. But also not saying it is impossible or even unreasonable.