It’s Probably Nothing

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Random news roundup, drop your own in the comments:

@inteldotwav — UK man linked to at least seven other coronavirus cases, possible superspreader

@nytimes — Nearly 100 people died from the coronavirus on Sunday, many of them in Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the epidemic. It was the single deadliest day since the outbreak began.

Associated Press: At a Chinese-run hospital in Zambia, some employees watched as people who recently returned from China showed up with coughs but were not placed in isolation. A doctor tending to those patients has stopped coming to work, and health workers have been ordered not to speak publicly about the new virus that has killed hundreds around the world.

@ChinaScience The incubation period of the novel #coronavirus can be as long as 24 days according to a study led by Zhong Nanshan, leader of the high-level expert group for fighting the virus.

Just when you thought the Chinese Ambassador had put those crazy conspiracies to rest. – White House asks scientists to investigate origins of coronavirus

@DrEricDing – UK cutting itself off from China: @British_Airways is now suspending all flights to Beijing and Shanghai until April 1st. These two China flights are among the biggest money makers for BA. If they’ve given up on them, that’s pretty effing big deal.

More from the Propaganda Zone.

23 Replies to “It’s Probably Nothing”

  1. The incubation period is not 2 weeks. It’s now defined as 3-21 days for asymptomatic transmission of the virus.

  3. Its been noticed that there has been no real showing of the Kung Flu in Africa. If it gets into that population it will be predictable chaos.

    It was discovered that the absence of cases in continental Africa was not due to it not being there. It was due to not testing for the illness on anybody.

    This could be a continent killer.

    1. I didn’t save the links but the testing kits were only distributed to 20 some countries (sub saharan) last week and it looks like the analysis will take place in South Africa and Liberia. Not expecting data for at least a week maybe two. Even in the states and Canada the lag between test and confirm has been days in early cases before state labs approved to do the analysis.

    2. Africa is nothing, think big, think India, the world’s largest open air toilet.

      Or closer to home think what this will do (and it will it is just a matter of time) to giant sewers like Mexico City or Santo Domingo…

  6. So now we see that the coronavirus causes an uncontrollable urge to dance. It is much worse than we thought.

  7. Seems to me that Canada is in the same boat as the Continent of Africa.
    Totally underwhelming attitude & totally unprepared to what is looking like a Massive Global Pandemic .. IMO.

    Are we even quarantining anyone yet from China.? Have our Flights from China been suspended.? Yea, I thought so….

    You did say “we will replace them” didn’t you Mr. Prime minister..??

  8. After dumbing down “critical” to “serious” and removing the percentage of serious cases, worldometer has gotten real. Now they are showing the data, in a complete set of easy to understand brackets for the dimmer bulbs.
    A great and transparent improvement.

    https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

    These folks aren’t being pushed around any more. This change bird dogs the potential of this event to get way out of control.

  10. Has anybody noticed, only Asians seem to be getting this virus and dying. Is there any way to find out what kind (ethnicity) of people are getting it? Could it be engineered to dothis?

    2. Yeah perhaps it has something to do with the outbreak occurring in … Asia? Watch larger urban centers in the turd world in the next few weeks. There is no reason to believe this thing discriminates.

  11. No one knows anything. When it hits the death level of the Spanish flu give me a call. I will still be old and I will still be white.

    1. A senior virologist was on a business TV channel — I think it was CNBC, surely an establishment media source — and he said the world coronavirus situation is worse than it looks. And the Globeand Mail’s Scott Barlow — a business writer and another establishment writer — tweeted today that scientists have measurements indicating that air pollution in China’s major cities is only 20-50% of normal, indicating a major economic shutdown of major manufacturing areas.

  13. If it ever lets loose in a place like Canada you’ll see all types pissing and moaning aboot the government not doing enough.
    Governments can solve plagues aboot as well as they can control the weather.
    If it continues to spread like UnMe’s mom, we’ll soon see some heavier economic impact.

  16. From WUWT, a learned article from Rud Istvan:

    https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/02/10/wuhan-coronavirus-a-wuwt-scientific-commentary/

    Sample:
    “The incubation period is about 10-14 days until symptoms (fever, cough) evidence. That is VERY BAD news, because it has been demonstrated beyond question (Germany, Japan, US) that human to human transmission PRECEDES symptoms by about a week. So unlike SARS where all air travelers got a fever screening (mine was to and from a medical conference in Panama City). Since transmission did not precede symptoms, SARS fever screening sufficed; with Wuhan fever screening is futile. That is why all the 14-day quarantines imposed last week; the only way to quarantine Wuhan coronavirus with certainty is to wait for symptoms to appear or not. Quarantine is disruptive and expensive, but very effective.”

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