SARS-like virus spreading rapidly in China; cities quarantined; cases in US

Do you say that abou the Democrat members? Are they dangerous for the same reason? Or is that (D)ifferent?

All good, now.

Are we taking Chinese numbers at face value? Doesn’t seem rational.

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Are the authors still alive?

When and if things change dramatically for the worse in this country, then you can worry about dying from this new virus over the myriads of other things that are likely to kill you first. :wink:

The only thing to be taken slightly from their numbers is the number who are infected. That number is almost certainly greatly under reported because they already have determined that some people get such a mild illness that they don’t know they are sick or think they have a common illness. That means the death rate is actually lower than what is being reported. And given that the death rate from the seasonal flu is based on exposures, not verified infections, the death rate of the coronavirus is probably not much different than from a particularly virulent flu because in densely populated Chinese cities, quite likely most of the residents have been exposed.

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Which Dems are spreading this theory? I honestly don’t know.

Oh I am wait and see, another week or three should tell the tale. But I am waiting to see how it plays out from governments I can trust to report accurately and China isn’t one of them.

You are relying on China to tell the truth, bad assumption.

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You could have just said, “No. I don’t have those stats.”

The figures being reported are coming from the World Health Organization.

How exactly is FNC responsible for what Cotton said?

They had to have a substantial number of patients before they could even come up with a reliable test.

The WHO has to get it’s numbers from the public health officials of each country.

The WHO is supporting the existence of biological weapons development facilities. I don’t trust them either

Maria Bartiromo starts in with speculation chat and prods Tom Cotton to weigh in with his own unsupported take. Pretty irresponsible all around.

Much worse than the fake news channels interviewing Avenati ad nauseam with his unsupported take.

No, not even close to what she said.

Maria tees up the whole ‘speculation’ about where this disease really came from and while ignorant herself, goads noted epidemiologist Tom Cotton for his uninformed take, which she does not challenge in any way because she’s an uninformed non-professional incapable of properly informing her audience during a concerning disease outbreak. Rather than discuss how there is no evidence of this disease being some sort of cooked up Chinese bioweapon, she just rolls with it and lets Tom continue with his trash.

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WHO is on site. They can see for themselves.