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/ China Corona virus #381  
Sometimes, well actually most times weapons are intended to disrupt. Consumes much, much more resources to attend to a disabled Soldier than a dead one.
 
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They have confirmed cases where the patient does not show symptoms...Asymptomatic.

Really dangerous. Spreading the stuff, with maybe a scratchy throat.
 
/ China Corona virus #385  
Vietnam says that all 16 of their victims are recovering.
 
/ China Corona virus #386  
That does look interesting. Doesn't surprise me though. Universities in the USA are hotbeds of communist ideology. Seems natural for them to team up with our Chicom friends.

Up here in the People's Republic Of Mass...we have several America hating college campuses located in Boston/Cambridge..
 
/ China Corona virus #389  
If you like that...

Here is a look into the WHO

Coronavirus: How WHO Corruption Helped It Spread - YouTube
I've been watching the Ebola outbreak in Africa since 2018, specifically the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) where it borders Uganda. The WHO has said the same thing there about not limiting international travel or trade. Uganda imposed restrictions anyway and has been mostly free of the ravages of the disease. When a case does show up, they are quick to contain it and all the associated people. It turns out that in those cases the person crossed the border in a place the government didn't know about. (As in illegal alien status). In that disease outbreak, WHO was slow to do anything and claimed that it needed more money. Several nations ignored WHO and provided the help they could which did far more to control Ebola than anything WHO did. I don't know if there is any corruption, but it does seem that the organization is not doing what it was originally chartered to do.

And as for China buying into Ethopia, yes, they're doing it and setting themselves up for a permanent presence in Africa. Even Namibia on the opposite side of Africa from Ethopia is trying to contend with the Chinese and has sent several high ranking officials home. Keep in mind that Africa has a lot of natural resources and China is poised to be the primary controller of these resources.
 
/ China Corona virus #390  
And as for China buying into Ethopia, yes, they're doing it and setting themselves up for a permanent presence in Africa. Even Namibia on the opposite side of Africa from Ethopia is trying to contend with the Chinese and has sent several high ranking officials home. Keep in mind that Africa has a lot of natural resources and China is poised to be the primary controller of these resources.
China with its long recorded history thinks in terms of long term strategies. There's no doubt they are re-colonizing Africa to their own advantage duplicating what Europeans did ~300 years ago.

Namibia? That is really the back end of nowhere. I think diamonds are the only resource presently developed. Other efforts were tried and then shut down, due cost of operation in a place so remote that it wasn't profitable. Scarce water, scarce educated labor, a small government running the place like a family secret for their own benefit alone, mostly empty desert. I thought the more resource-rich African nations would see Chinese involvement long before Namibia.

Off-topic - after my daughter's semester-abroad in South Africa she and 3 other women did a road trip including the neighboring countries before flying home. When they reached Namibia's northern border, Angolan border guards frantically waved them away. They didn't realize the border was planted with land mines. Things are just different in remote areas of Africa.
 
/ China Corona virus #391  
2629 / 79774 = 3% The 9% on that worldometer website excludes "active cases"

That's not how that works. recovered over dead would be a better measure of death rate. you can't count people who are active, you don't know if they will be in the dead or recovered column.
 
/ China Corona virus #394  
Coronavirus Live Updates: U.S. Officials Warn Americans to Brace for Likely Outbreak - The New York Times

You can't guess the death rate yet. At this point it's pure speculation, there's just not enough info.

Can't guess the death rate? Huh? Whose guessing? of the 30,620 closed cases, 27,909 (91%) survived (some with lifelong scarring of the lungs) and 2,711 (9%) died as a result of contracting the Coronavirus.

There is no guesswork here, this is math. How big of a distribution of closed cases do you think we need before we can draw a conclusion on the percentage of fatalities?
 
/ China Corona virus #395  
Found this quote

As of (Feb 23), the US remains extremely limited in COVID19 testing.

Only 3 of ~100 public health labs have @CDC test kits working, and CDC is not sharing what went wrong with the kits.

How would we know if COVID19 is spreading here if we are not looking for it.
 
/ China Corona virus #396  
I've been watching the Ebola outbreak in Africa since 2018, specifically the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) where it borders Uganda. The WHO has said the same thing there about not limiting international travel or trade. Uganda imposed restrictions anyway and has been mostly free of the ravages of the disease. When a case does show up, they are quick to contain it and all the associated people. It turns out that in those cases the person crossed the border in a place the government didn't know about. (As in illegal alien status). In that disease outbreak, WHO was slow to do anything and claimed that it needed more money. Several nations ignored WHO and provided the help they could which did far more to control Ebola than anything WHO did. I don't know if there is any corruption, but it does seem that the organization is not doing what it was originally chartered to do.

And as for China buying into Ethopia, yes, they're doing it and setting themselves up for a permanent presence in Africa. Even Namibia on the opposite side of Africa from Ethopia is trying to contend with the Chinese and has sent several high ranking officials home. Keep in mind that Africa has a lot of natural resources and China is poised to be the primary controller of these resources.

China is after the rare Earth metals, all of our future technology will depend on them. U.S. dependence on China's rare earth: Trade war vulnerability - Reuters
 
/ China Corona virus #397  
The deposits of rare earth elements in the seabed far surpass any deposits found on terra firma to date...
 
/ China Corona virus #399  
Can't guess the death rate? Huh? Whose guessing? of the 30,620 closed cases, 27,909 (91%) survived (some with lifelong scarring of the lungs) and 2,711 (9%) died as a result of contracting the Coronavirus.

There is no guesswork here, this is math. How big of a distribution of closed cases do you think we need before we can draw a conclusion on the percentage of fatalities?

The problem is the wide range of severity with this illness compared to previous viruses. Most in the past have left little doubt when someone had a possible case, and had to be tested. This current virus affects many in such a minor way, with a mild sore throat for example, that they never get tested or request treatment. But they continue to spread to others. So we count those we test, and those severely sick or who have died. How will we every know a true number of those infected? The South Korea test might be the best so far, if they test and monitor the entire group.
 
/ China Corona virus #400  
The problem is the wide range of severity with this illness compared to previous viruses. Most in the past have left little doubt when someone had a possible case, and had to be tested. This current virus affects many in such a minor way, with a mild sore throat for example, that they never get tested or request treatment. But they continue to spread to others. So we count those we test, and those severely sick or who have died. How will we every know a true number of those infected? The South Korea test might be the best so far, if they test and monitor the entire group.

Even so, of the closed cases that have been counted, there is a 9% death rate.
 
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