After the crisis, his death should be investigated by an international group.
And those responsible for rebuffing assistance, including those at the CDC or other US agencies that rejected test kits, should be investigated.
Everyone just throws their hands up and says “incompetence” but in the real-world, a huge majority seem to believe in sinister motives. This is based on anecdotal experiences from mostly wealthy/successful people I’ve talked to. I’m a skeptic but way more people are conspiratorial than the media acknowledges.
How the US didn’t have tests in January when people were sounding the alarm, or how we don’t have general Coronavirus tests from decades or years ago is quite confounding.
I was just making what I thought was a clever counter to your endless argument. I have friends who are implicated in conspiracy theories and know well it’s a flawed philosophical system that sustains incompetence.
But set your Google search to 1970-1988, and read the old coronavirus test related papers. Ones of humans, cattle and cats. Then in ~2004 talking about coronavirus testing for SARS.
It seems like they’re at least could be a general test or indicator for all coronaviruses. Even if not, we’ve been fearing mutant coronaviruses for decades, why wouldn’t we get the tests started in November?
Poker players were betting 3-weeks+ ago that WSOP would be shut down and now the world is-
While the world now praises the Chinese government's response (they shouldn't) to the Wuhan Corona Virus outbreak, please remember why it spread at first. Also, I doubt if the situation is actually controlled in China. Have we ever known how China counted the patients? In more than one case, the new infections in a city exceeds that of its province.
I couldn’t find any evidence in the link about new cases in a city exceeding that for a province. Do you have any source for that? Or any other evidence that numbers may be misleading in China? Given their past record it does seem likely, but I suspect their social distancing measures have been at least partly successful.
[2] Official amendment of the numbers in Hubei Province. The day before, the newly confirmed cases reported in the Hubei Province was 349, while that of Wuhan city was 615 (Wuhan is a city in Hubei).
As far as I am aware it is incredibly unlikely to have been engineered. The virus is very similar to those in animals already, and there are no tell tale signs of CRISPR being used (off site effects where unintentional areas are also targeted). While it is possible it could have been perfectly engineered from a very similar virus in a way to avoid leaving signs of engineering (which I think is pretty unlikely), there is no motivation. If you wanted to do this, surely you would immunise your own people against it first to reduce local damage? And for saying the USA planted it in China.... it’s just stupid. I mean, the USA is managing this terribly. If they had planned it surely they would have stockpiled enough masks or medication to make this work.
He had a lot of exposure to SARS-CoV-2 in a brief period of time however, and there's some circumstantial evidence that things like this do contribute to a higher case-fatality rate.
Even after Italy and other countries had known the risks, they really did not take drastic measures to contain it until it was too late. There is a pattern here - governments don’t move fast when there is this level of uncertainty. China deserves blame for lack of free speech, but rest of their efforts were pretty effective. Don’t expect either of these to happen in a democracy.
And those responsible for rebuffing assistance, including those at the CDC or other US agencies that rejected test kits, should be investigated.
Everyone just throws their hands up and says “incompetence” but in the real-world, a huge majority seem to believe in sinister motives. This is based on anecdotal experiences from mostly wealthy/successful people I’ve talked to. I’m a skeptic but way more people are conspiratorial than the media acknowledges.
How the US didn’t have tests in January when people were sounding the alarm, or how we don’t have general Coronavirus tests from decades or years ago is quite confounding.