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CV20 10 points ago +14 / -4

This virus isn't going away.

Watch the numbers, (outside of China) it doubles every week

https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6

Chinese Communist Party are no longer publicly announcing the numbers for damage control.

We've heard it all before, it's the end of the world, we're all going to die etc etc

It's not the end of the world, but this virus is serious, it's death rate looks like it's about 1%.

'But the flu kills more!' - Flu kills 80,000 people at 0.025% death rate A 1% death rate from SARS-CoV-2 spreading among the American population would kill 3.3 million people, while 60 million Americans would suffer from extreme breathing complications. If the hospitals are full and people are left on their own (like 1918), for those that are suffocating (20% of cases) and don't have access to oxygen masks or respirators that you get from a hospital, the death rate could climb to 5-10%.

Read the report from the WHO about the findings so far on the virus https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/who-china-joint-mission-on-covid-19-final-report.pdf

The good news is that kids don't seem to be affected, the bad news is that your parents or grandparents are in severe danger. 120 million Americans are over the age of 50, many more people have serious conditions that the virus could use to attack their body.

All this for some fucking bat soup!

China demands an apology! https://twitter.com/jenniferatntd/status/1235871996640145408

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thisguy883 13 points ago +13 / -0

Most of this seems correct except for the bat soup thing.

I truly believe this virus was engineered in a lab to be used as some sort of bioweapon. Stefan Molyneux had a few guests on his show who talked about how the virus was not a natural mutation, but a mix of SARS, HIV, and a Corona virus that was used to carry the desease.

The bat soup thing was an excuse.

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CV20 9 points ago +9 / -0

It's possible, we'll never know for sure.

On the one hand I could see the Chinese Communist Party trying to develop a deadly disease to unleash on the world, but as incompetent as they are, release it on themselves first accidently.

However, on the other hand, the Chinese culture of eating anything that moves and keeping wild animals alive until the time that you buy it to 'keep the meat fresh' is a disease riddled cesspool, anything can happen.

Bubonic Plague, Spanish Flu, SARS, Avian Flu, every time it comes from China.