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new coronavirus outbreak China, Korea, USA - mod warnings in OP (updated 24/02/20)

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,251 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    ardinn wrote: »
    Heard one report of 112,000 dead! - I dont believe it, but can you imagine?

    Immediate cremations, no burials now. Order of the Chinese government.

    We are not being told the truth.

    China itself is in the process of being quarantined by the rest of the world for that reason. No one believes them.


  • Posts: 18,047 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    It would help the world trust them.

    China is fighting a war to save it's two main cities, think about that. That's where they are now.

    The situation is far more serious than the authorities are saying hence the quarantines of major, major cities.

    As I said this is a country amputating itself.

    It's incredibly serious.

    Bat soup? Really!? Nothing to do with the virology lab that just happens to exist across the river from the seafood market this supposedly originated from?

    Posters will say i'm being "tin foil hat" and fair enough but I genuinely believe something incredibly serious has happened and that explains the CCPs lightning quick and draconian response.

    So the only way China can gain your trust is by admitting to a conspiracy theory that a biological weapon has been unleashed on its population by mistake?

    Bat soup? Really!? Yes Kermit. Viruses have been around longer than labs. The world is covered in those labs but you're only thinking it's the lab in this case because it's China.
    Ficheall wrote: »
    Maybe the hundreds of people who were on the plane in Dublin would have been quarantined in an airport hotel instead of being sent on their merry way..

    Yeah, that's why China doesn't just say shlt's wild and there are millions of infected just so people will stop doubting them. It would cause global panic and mayhem.
    ardinn wrote: »
    Seeing videos now of the army patrolling streets with automatic weapons.

    Heard one report of 112,000 dead! - I dont believe it, but can you imagine?

    So you don't believe it but post it anyway?
    ardinn wrote: »
    One interesting thing I did find waas that there is 55,000 hospital beds in those two cities - If that is true, then I am in full agreement of the very worst possible scenarios - we have seen the state and strain the hospitals are in - thats not even a question now - but if they declare even 5000 infected, thats only 10% of available capacity (I understand hospitals dont stay empty up until an outbreak) but its very worrying if true.

    So you understand it and then just totally ignore it?
    Immediate cremations, no burials now. Order of the Chinese government.

    We are not being told the truth.

    China itself is in the process of being quarantined by the rest of the world for that reason. No one believes them.

    No one believes what? Are China saying that it is not real and is not spreading to other countries? Is that what other countries are refusing to believe?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,251 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog




    No one believes what? Are China saying that it is not real and is not spreading to other countries? Is that what other countries are refusing to believe?

    The United States knows exactly where this virus came from.

    It came from the bio weapons lab in Wuhan. It's a biological weapon accidentally released on the population.

    I 150% stand by that and believe it is only a matter of time before the CCP admit it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,749 ✭✭✭Smiles35


    tuxy wrote: »
    Has any credible scientist backed the bio weapon theory?


    I'm just stuck on that report from that lab in India on the genetic makeup containing bits of code from other viruses. No group seems to have come forward yet to back it up and say the same.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,129 ✭✭✭✭Oranage2


    Even if the bio lab was true, there is is no way anybody is going to admit it, there's no gain in telling the truth. There would be riots on the street. It's better to blame it on the miniscule minority that eat things like bat soup.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    The United States knows exactly where this virus came from.

    It came from the bio weapons lab in Wuhan. It's a biological weapon accidentally released on the population.

    I 150% stand by that and believe it is only a matter of time before the CCP admit it.

    It will be worth revisiting this thread in a few months.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,122 ✭✭✭BeerWolf


    A flight last night from Moscow off Aeroflot (my company deals with that airline) had an incident of a passenger showing symptoms of the virus, with medics in hazmat suits going on board. :o

    Was doing the morning shift yesterday, so I wasn't present there. Passengers left for 2 hours on the plane no doubt in panic mode.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,251 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    Ipso wrote: »
    It will be worth revisiting this thread in a dew months.

    Posted already. They know

    https://twitter.com/DarrenPlymouth/status/1223714224167358465


  • Posts: 18,047 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]



    He literally says the US still doesn't know where it originated.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    They didn’t need to have contact with the market, just with people that did.
    Like I said, it will be interesting after a while. Also predictable in that conspiracy theorists will never admit to being wrong, they will just double down and make it part of the proof it’s real. Has George Soros being put forward as owner of the lab yet?


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  • Posts: 18,047 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    It could well be true. It is plausible, and some day we may find out that's what happened.

    I suspect that the Australians who grew the virus would have an idea and would say something. Though I haven't looked into it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,276 ✭✭✭sdanseo


    BeerWolf wrote: »
    A flight last night from Moscow off Aeroflot (my company deals with that airline) had an incident of a passenger showing symptoms of the virus, with medics in hazmat suits going on board. :o

    Was doing the morning shift yesterday, so I wasn't present there. Passengers left for 2 hours on the plane no doubt in panic mode.

    They were all let home / to their connections with an explanatory leaflet, patient in the Mater isolation ward.
    If the case tests positive it will be another example of moronic (but typical) Irish under reaction.

    Mainstream news ignoring it. RTÉ has main headline about the virus and updated 3.30am but not a word about it. Censorship.

    https://www.thesun.ie/news/5053254/coronavirus-ireland-dublin-airport-scare-medics-plane/


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,251 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    He literally says the US still doesn't know where it originated.

    That's what he says in public.

    They are not going to swallow the CCP's bat soup.

    He also points out the existence of the lab across the river in Wuhan the CIA identified as the most advanced bio weapons facility in China.

    The reason the response was so rapid and the quarantines were put in place by the Chinese authorities is because they knew what had happened and had no choice.

    Like I said they are now involved in what is a war to defend Beijing and Shanghai.

    That's what China is reduced to now. You telling me it's bat soup? You swallowing what the Communist Party says?


  • Posts: 18,047 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    You telling me it's bat soup? You swallowing what the Communist Party says?

    "swallowing what the Communist Party says".. A balanced unbiased argument does not end with accusing other posters of that, simply because they don't believe in an unproven theory.

    It doesn't even really make sense that if he knew for sure, he'd go hinting at it in public. It can still spread to America and bio-weapon is going to cause more panic than bat soup. He's more likely to just be caught up in it all the same as you are.


    Looking at his logic is pretty funny.

    "This coronavirus is a catastrophe on the scale of Chernobyl for China. But actually, it's probably worse than Chernobyl, which was localized in its effect. The coronavirus could result in a global pandemic," he warned military officials and colleagues.
    "As I've said for a week: 'Do NOT travel to China. If you're in China, GET OUT. Contact our embassy or consulates if you need help," a 9:26 p.m. tweet stated.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,251 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    "swallowing what the Communist Party says".. A balanced unbiased argument does not end with accusing other posters of that, simply because they don't believe in an unproven theory.

    It doesn't even really make sense that if he knew for sure, he'd go hinting at it in public. It can still spread to America and bio-weapon is going to cause more panic than bat soup. He's more likely to just be caught up in it all the same as you are.


    Looking at his logic is pretty funny.

    "This coronavirus is a catastrophe on the scale of Chernobyl for China. But actually, it's probably worse than Chernobyl, which was localized in its effect. The coronavirus could result in a global pandemic," he warned military officials and colleagues.
    "As I've said for a week: 'Do NOT travel to China. If you're in China, GET OUT. Contact our embassy or consulates if you need help," a 9:26 p.m. tweet stated.

    How is it funny?

    Whilst this may be people eating bats as the source there is a very proper chance this is a weaponised virus.

    Foreign individuals should of course get out of the cities west of Beijing and Shanghai.

    But as I said China is fighting to protect those coastal cities - people will have to leave if they fall to the virus in the same way Wuhan has.

    The situation is really bad.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,998 ✭✭✭✭VinLieger


    Cant believe the passengers on the
    Moscow flight werent held until they confirm if the suspected person has bit or not, that leaflet they were handed is a ****ing joke.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,111 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    Whilst this may be people eating bats as the source there is a very proper chance this is a weaponised virus.


    A weaponised virus, really!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,251 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    Wanderer78 wrote: »
    A weaponised virus, really!

    Yes. Wuhan bio weapons lab is across the river from the supposed "origin".


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,129 ✭✭✭✭Oranage2


    Time to turn off Alex Jones Kermit


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,111 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    Yes. Wuhan bio weapons lab is across the river from the supposed "origin".


    That's interesting


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,251 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    Wanderer78 wrote: »
    That's interesting

    It is indeed

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,111 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    It is indeed


    Sold, this is clearly what's happening, I think we should counterattack with the paddy virus


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,983 ✭✭✭✭tuxy


    Wanderer78 wrote: »
    That's interesting

    Yes it's interesting that China has an actual bio weapons lab and no trade sanctions or condemnation from other countries.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,111 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    tuxy wrote:
    Yes it's interesting that China has an actual bio weapons lab and no trade sanctions or condemnation from other countries.


    Do you really think people care, it's all about the money, nobody really gives a fcuk


  • Posts: 18,047 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    It's a BSL-4 laboratory. England has them, Ireland doesn't. Even if it came from there, it doesn't necessarily mean it's some bio-weapon. The labs are used for research.

    Biosafety level 4 laboratories are used for diagnostic work and research on easily transmitted pathogens which can cause fatal disease. These include a number of viruses known to cause viral hemorrhagic fever such as Marburg virus, Ebola virus, Lassa virus, and Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever. Other pathogens handled at BSL-4 include Hendra virus, Nipah virus, and some flaviviruses. Additionally, poorly characterized pathogens which appear closely related to dangerous pathogens are often handled at this level until sufficient data are obtained either to confirm continued work at this level, or to permit working with them at a lower level.[13] This level is also used for work with Variola virus, the causative agent of smallpox, though this work is only performed at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, United States, and the State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology in Koltsovo, Russia.[14]

    I know already that because it's China, you believe they're making bio-weapons and research is a cover. If that's the life you prefer to lead, not much we can do. Most of us prefer to apply Occam's Razor.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,251 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    Wanderer78 wrote: »
    Sold, this is clearly what's happening, I think we should counterattack with the paddy virus

    The CIA say it's the most advanced bio weapons facility in China.

    Why do you think China put such extreme measures in place so quick?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,983 ✭✭✭✭tuxy


    The CIA say it's the most advanced bio weapons facility in China.

    Source?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,251 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    It's a BSL-4 laboratory. England has them, Ireland doesn't. Even if it came from there, it doesn't necessarily mean it's some bio-weapon. The labs are used for research.

    Biosafety level 4 laboratories are used for diagnostic work and research on easily transmitted pathogens which can cause fatal disease. These include a number of viruses known to cause viral hemorrhagic fever such as Marburg virus, Ebola virus, Lassa virus, and Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever. Other pathogens handled at BSL-4 include Hendra virus, Nipah virus, and some flaviviruses. Additionally, poorly characterized pathogens which appear closely related to dangerous pathogens are often handled at this level until sufficient data are obtained either to confirm continued work at this level, or to permit working with them at a lower level.[13] This level is also used for work with Variola virus, the causative agent of smallpox, though this work is only performed at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, United States, and the State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology in Koltsovo, Russia.[14]

    I know already that because it's China, you believe they're making bio-weapons and research is a cover. If that's the life you prefer to lead, not much we can do. Most of us prefer to apply Occam's Razor.

    The CIA say it's China's most advanced bio weapons facility of a far different scale to what you are referencing.

    You are only looking for an argument.

    You see it as pure coincidence.

    You are entitled to that opinion of course.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,998 ✭✭✭✭VinLieger


    The CIA say it's the most advanced bio weapons facility in China.

    Why do you think China put such extreme measures in place so quick?

    This started in late december they didnt implement any restrictions until mid january and they tried to hide it at first, so no they they didnt put any extreme measures in place quickly.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,111 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    Why do you think China put such extreme measures in place so quick?


    Fcuk knows, I think we should nuke them from orbit, it's really the only way


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