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Coronavirus 2019-2020 thread (no unsubstantiated rumours!)
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Please avoid spreading conspiracy theories which are unsubstantiated in future. You've made multiple such posts in the recent past.
This is a formal warning, if I come across a further conspiracy theory post in the future there will be a one month ban.
Pompeo worked for the CIA and said they would frequently lie to reach certain objectives. Pompeo also said that the U.S. had "tremendous evidence" that China's COVID infection rate and death toll was extraordinary higher than reported but provided no details and no credible sources.
If the U.S. truly had hard evidence on either of these topics: China's COVID death toll or Wuhan lab theory, do you think they would really keep it quiet and under they rug?
Intrepid
Major
So sad, this Covid 19 virus brings out the worse in humanity! Still not surprising when you see politicians still (as late as today's tweets) tweeting hatred towards one group of people.
British ColumbiaVancouver officials 'extremely disappointed' by racist graffiti at famed Chinatown gate
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British ColumbiaVancouver officials 'extremely disappointed' by racist graffiti at famed Chinatown gate
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SteelBird
Colonel
The forum is a bit contaminated and need to be cleaned up.
30+ days of zero new case and finally reported zero active case were all the good news but good news won't last forever as long as there still c19 outside and no vaccine or cure have been found. Cambodia reports first new case of c19 after 30+ of zero case. The new case is a Khmer man arrived from Philippines yesterday (21-May-2020). All other passengers have been tested and under quarantine.
30+ days of zero new case and finally reported zero active case were all the good news but good news won't last forever as long as there still c19 outside and no vaccine or cure have been found. Cambodia reports first new case of c19 after 30+ of zero case. The new case is a Khmer man arrived from Philippines yesterday (21-May-2020). All other passengers have been tested and under quarantine.
supercat
Major
China's CanSina is developing a mRNA COVID-19 vaccine in cooperation with a Canadian company called Precision Nanosystems, as well as another vaccine with some Chinese military research institution.
Situation in the U.S. on May 21:
Situation in China on May 21, excluding HK, Macau, and TW:
Situation in the U.S. on May 21:
Situation in China on May 21, excluding HK, Macau, and TW:
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The probable reason is that the US does not want to be investigated.
If an investigation were to be carried out to find the origin of the virus, the US must be investigated together with China. Participants at the Wuhan military games last October should be asked to provide information. Many of the athletes, from France, Spain, Italy, Sweden and other countries reported being ill with what appeared to be COVID-19 symptoms. ( )
France could provide some evidence, because a team of researchers in the city of Colmar in northeastern France announced in a release recently that it had identified two X-rays, from Nov. 16 and Nov. 18, showing symptoms consistent with the novel coronavirus. ( ) The Wuhan games were held in October. There is a possibility that these November French infections originated from the athletes who returned from Wuhan after the games.
Before the above infections, five US athletes became sick and were taken to an infectious disease clinic in Wuhan. Some people claim it was malaria but that does not make sense because there has been no malaria infections in China for a long time. To suddenly have five cases - all Americans - is hard to believe. China has asked the US to provide the medical records of these 5 athletes but to no avail.
According to Israel, US intelligence agencies alerted Israel to the coronavirus outbreak in China last November, at a time when China was not even aware of its existence. Could the five sick athletes be the reason the US knew?
In March this year a group of European universities did a research on the spread of SARS-CoV-2 and concluded that it started in either Europe or US, then spread to China, then spread again to Europe and US. They wrote:
In a phylogenetic network analysis of 160 complete human severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-Cov-2) genomes, we find three central variants distinguished by amino acid changes, which we have named A, B, and C, with A being the ancestral type according to the bat outgroup coronavirus. The A and C types are found in significant proportions outside East Asia, that is, in Europeans and Americans. In contrast, the B type is the most common type in East Asia. ()
The Fort Detrick military laboratory in Maryland, that handled high-level disease-causing material, was ordered by the US to close down in July 2019. An independent investigation should be conducted to find out the real reasons for closure.
According to estimates by the CDC, the seasonal flu that started in September last year has infected over 30 million US citizens, causing more than 20,000 deaths. Head of CDC, Robert Redfield, admitted in March this year that some coronavirus-related deaths have been found posthumously that were previously thought to be flu-related.
So, if an independent investigation is to be carried out to determine the origin of SARS-CoV-2, the US too should be investigated, together with China.