Coronavirus 2019-2020 thread (no unsubstantiated rumours!)

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Tensions Simmer

While Australia and China entered a free trade agreement in late 2015, tensions between the two nations have been simmering for years. Passing laws against foreign interference in 2018, Australia accused Beijing of “meddling” in its government, media and education system. Like the U.S., it has also banned Huawei Technologies Co. from building its 5G network on security concerns.

The Huawei ban was seen as the catalyst for China’s barley anti-dumping probe that began in 2018, and a slowdown of Australian coal shipments into Chinese ports. China also restricted canola imports from Canada after the nation detained a Huawei executive.

“China has been practicing economic coercion against many countries over the past 10 years,” said Rory Medcalf, head of the National Security College at the Australian National University in Canberra. “As we’ve seen with the barley tariffs, economic coercion is about applying short-term economic and political pain but it will be difficult for China to sustain such tactics against the wide range of countries that want the pandemic to be investigated. I don’t see that China can succeed in singling out Australia indefinitely on this issue.”

Shi Yinhong, an adviser to China’s cabinet and a professor of international relations at Renmin University in Beijing, said ties between the two nations were more likely to deteriorate than improve, given Australia’s foreign policy alignment with the U.S.

“If the Australian government’s rhetoric is still loud and it sticks to its current demands, China may take more severe countermeasures,” he said. “If the Australian government -- mindful of its economic interests and opposition from the business community -- steps back, China would not need to take such steps.”

— With assistance by Ainslie Chandler, Steven Yang, Shuping Niu, Penny Peng, Jason Scott, Michael Heath, Dandan Li, and Jing Li

(Updates with Australia statement on virus)

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Australia obviously overplayed their hand pandering to the US. They are disrespecting and belittling China if they think China is not going to respond.
 

Rettam Stacf

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Scientists in China believe new drug can stop pandemic 'without vaccine'
  • A drug being tested by scientists at China's prestigious Peking University could not only shorten the recovery time for those infected, but even offer short-term immunity from the virus, researchers say.
  • Sunney Xie, director of the university's Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Genomics, told AFP that the drug has been successful at the animal testing stage.
  • This may offer temporary protection for medical workers for a few weeks, which Xie said they are hoping to "extend to a few months".
  • He added that the drug should be ready for use later this year and in time for any potential winter outbreak of the virus, which has infected 4.8 million people around the world and killed more than 315,000.
  • "Planning for the clinical trial is underway," said Xie, adding it will be carried out in Australia and other countries since cases have dwindled in China, offering fewer human guinea pigs for testing.
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Scientists in China are taking a multi-pronged approach to fight the Coronavirus :
  • Vaccines development
  • Testing efficacy of existing drugs
  • Development of new drugs
  • Plasma therapy
 

Rettam Stacf

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Looks like more pain for Australia in this Covid 19 spat. One interesting fact here is that in terms of Australia's total exports . China only amounted to 6% in 2000, but as of last year it was at its peak of 32.6%!

Australia did not sell less to other countries. China just buy more and more from Australia, thus contributing to Australia's economic growth and the prosperity of her citizens. If the government and people of Australia do not understand that, they deserve what is coming to them.

What a bunch of idiots turning a WIN-WIN relationship into a WIN-LOSE one.
 

vesicles

Colonel
Scientists in China believe new drug can stop pandemic 'without vaccine'
  • A drug being tested by scientists at China's prestigious Peking University could not only shorten the recovery time for those infected, but even offer short-term immunity from the virus, researchers say.
  • Sunney Xie, director of the university's Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Genomics, told AFP that the drug has been successful at the animal testing stage.
  • This may offer temporary protection for medical workers for a few weeks, which Xie said they are hoping to "extend to a few months".
  • He added that the drug should be ready for use later this year and in time for any potential winter outbreak of the virus, which has infected 4.8 million people around the world and killed more than 315,000.
  • "Planning for the clinical trial is underway," said Xie, adding it will be carried out in Australia and other countries since cases have dwindled in China, offering fewer human guinea pigs for testing.
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Scientists in China are taking a multi-pronged approach to fight the Coronavirus :
  • Vaccines development
  • Testing efficacy of existing drugs
  • Development of new drugs
  • Plasma therapy

I understand that your bullet points above are direct quotes from the article. I would just like to say that I hate calling patients and test subjects the "human guinea pigs"... I can call myself a human guinea pig when I volunteer to test something for the first time. But I would never call other volunteers "human guinea pigs". It carries a negative tone... And a little disrespect to the volunteers, especially coming from a health care professional.

I hate to always be a party pooper, but I would caution that their drug has just finished animal testing. Usually, a very small percentage of test drugs manage to pass the clinical trials after successfully passing the animal tests. Let's see how it goes. Somehow, the efficacy of the drugs is almost always diluted in human, when compared with their efficacy in mice. And the opposite goes with the toxicity. Although we know that it must be because of the different physiology of human and mice, but we don't know exactly why and how...

About using plasma containing antibodies in general, I just chatted with a colleague of mine who has been treating COVID-19 patients at a major hospital in Houston for the past 2 months. She told me that she has major doubts about the efficacy of antibodies. She's seen conflicted results and the antibodies are not as clear cut as many in the media have made it out to be. In fact, she's not even sure if we can be immune to future infection even if we have recovered from a previous infection... i.e. can the antibodies generated from a previous infection can prevent us from a new infection? A short answer is "not so sure"...
 

AssassinsMace

Lieutenant General
I don't know why the media believes Trump is taking hydroxychloroquine. The guy just can't admit he's wrong so he keeps perpetuating the drug because of ego. You think a narcissist is going to risk his life? A narcissist would love other people risking their lives knowingly taking poison because he told them to in order to feel like he's the one in control. People die because of him must give him a high.
 

TerraN_EmpirE

Tyrant King
I am sick of this Conspiracy Theory bull shit so I am going to Debunk this video as the pile of it is.
Oh my god this this hilarious!! That stupid robot voice..... CIA secret Bioweapons lab... give me a break everyone knows it’s a DOD Bio warfare facility Why the hell would the CIA need to be involved.

Ft. Derrick has a history of leaking into the environment... you mean conspiracy theories about the US inventing HIV there. In fact that’s the whole CIA link which was back tracked to a KGB operation Infektion. A disinformation campaign. The biggest real issue was chemical disposal. It’s a super fund site.
oh but the 2001 Anthrax....
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Farther more they keep calling Anthrax a virus. It’s a bacterium, Mold.
but now we jump to Convid 19...
oh and the Wuhan lab also has a history of leaking in 04 it leaked SARS causing a reflare of it.
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Not FACT supposition. fact can be proven. Supposition is Theory.
June 2019 a out break of SARS 2 in a Maryland Retirement home. Convid 19 wasn’t identified till far later in Wuhan Not the US. Cases of the retirement home cannot be proven as being of Convid 19.
fact there was a breach at Ft. Dertrick in June however by Army and CDC statements no agents were released.
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The releases were untreated waste water.
Oh the lab was later reopened.
Supposition Maryland should have had more cases of Convid 19. Based on what? Some model? Guess what Models can be Wrong. They are projections based on guess work.
Fact the Greenspring Assisted living facility From June to 2019 July only Had 63 residents out of over 250 fell ill of a respiratory illness. The CDC found evidence of Bacteria. 3 died of the illness. 3 out of 63 Out of over 250! Given the effects that have been seen with confirmed Neocorona outbreaks in Nursing homes and assisted living facilities this outbreak is downright tame.
A second facility did suffer an additional infection but those were far smaller and seem unrelated. The video however would have you believe these must have been related.
oh yes the loaded question “Why was China able to identity it in a few days”
Timeline review China the first official reports were for 2019 12 31 with identification on 2020 1 12.... Dr. Li however talked on Wichat about it on 30 21 2019 but first documented hospitalization was 2019 12 16 By 2020 1 1 China had over 266 cases. By 2020 1 10 they had sequenced the genome. It was almost a month. From first hospitalization to sequencing. But wait. The reason Li was talking about it was because he thought the symptoms resembled SARS 1.0. Where as the US had no real experience with SARS 1.0, and let’s face it the facilities in question are Nursing homes. Where the elderly are cared for. A third of the casualties of Convid 19 have been in Nursing homes.
OMG a Convid case in Japan....
Yet wait... the first confirmed case was January2020!!
Oh But Mayor Michael Melham says he had it in November... Excuse me although he has tested positive for the Antibodies that don’t mean jack ships! Many of those tested have reported no symptoms... but he said he got sick! And he may have remember November is cold and flu season. He likely had a case of the flu. It is possible to be Asymptotic with Convid 19. Yet the Video blesses him like a saint:rolleyes:
Frances first case was confirmed December not earlier. You can check that.
Coronavirus: France's first known case 'was in December'
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And Japan as well.
Wait what is this bull ship there are 8 Types of Corona Virus. Virus often mutate.
The old claim was that the US had two strains this is not entirely false just misrepresenting the cases on the west coast of the US are linked more closely to the Washington state cases which in turn are directly linked to Wuhan Those on the East cost are from More afar having cycled around the world. Because the US East and West coasts have a large sparely populated area between them the two coasts get there own strains
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The. Fun with made up projections pulled out of the video makers arse.


Video @ 5:16 “It was genetically Engineered to kill The Chinese people.”:eek:
Wait What?
IT WAS GENETICALLY ENGINEERED TO KILL THE CHINESE PEOPLE”
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the FAQ?

Race and nationality are not genetics.https://www.sapiens.org/body/is-race-real/
Genetically speaking I can have identical DNA to any human on earth I fact I am more likely to have identical DNA to someone of an other race than that same background. This statement is such horse crap it should have caused the video to have been stopped by those who watched it and to be flagged as both racist and inflammatory.
he is still in his counter factual claiming that the US strain is the oldes neglecting to mention that even as the video was made there were more than one strain.
next we move to his timeline claiming that the US had moved in late November to alert allies Of the coming epidemic in China... True.
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Yup it happened but then again. Lookback at the timeline. He insists that This popped up in late December 2019 however case Zero is believed to have December 1 2019. However it could have been earlier.
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December 1 or late November lines up. No conspiracy needed. Simply unreported cases that the CCP might not have realized were tripping a threat.
and here we go drawing lines to no dots the FDA and CDC blocked testing in February... did they?
No they didn’t they had issued contaminated tests and didn’t have enough of them. They wanted to issue working tests.
yet we have already seen how far this video maker wants to go.“IT WAS GENETICALLY ENGINEERED TO KILL THE CHINESE PEOPLE”
And here we are with the demonization and incitement of hatred... oh wait that what is that above. Calling it Wuhan virus? That’s where it was found does that mean Ebola is racist? China virus? That’s again where it came from isn’t it? My favorite is CCP Virus. That’s targeted to a group absolutely but the CCP isn’t the people.
as soon as tested started the US numbers of Convid 19 skyrockets... No really like how could we have know of cases before testing? A dip stick? That’s like saying there are significantly fewer car crashes on The Michigan 185 Highway . The island where M185 Is built has banned cars for a century! Of course cases shot up we were testing for them!
Again creating number from his arse. With no real basis in fact and bash the American President as the norm.
and in review conspiracy theory. As yet there is no solid proof of Convid 19 being man made or “WAS GENETICALLY ENGINEERED TO KILL THE CHINESE PEOPLE”.
What we have is classic conspiracy theories. Take some coninidence jumble the facts and add in preconceived notions. Mix in a dash of controversy mistakes early on shake spread liberally add in made up facts and figures and lather over nationalists


as with most conspiracy theories it asks you to believe a double theory. 1) that this was accidentally released in the US then 2) that it was intended to Hurt China. How could if the lab that created it be shut down they then improve it and release it on China? If it was released in the US by mistake first why didn’t the ethnic Chinese populations of the east coast suddenly keel over dead? Why has it killed all ethnicities or hit places like Iran if it was supposed to only kill Chinese people.
I don't know why the media believes Trump is taking hydroxychloroquine
Because his said it and the MSM and most of the members here love to ridicule everything about him. However some doctors when asked have said it’s not a political problem but just one to talk with his doctor about.

FOX!!! DIE!!o_O
 
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B.I.B.

Captain
Scientists in China believe new drug can stop pandemic 'without vaccine'
  • A drug being tested by scientists at China's prestigious Peking University could not only shorten the recovery time for those infected, but even offer short-term immunity from the virus, researchers say.
  • Sunney Xie, director of the university's Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Genomics, told AFP that the drug has been successful at the animal testing stage.
  • This may offer temporary protection for medical workers for a few weeks, which Xie said they are hoping to "extend to a few months".
  • He added that the drug should be ready for use later this year and in time for any potential winter outbreak of the virus, which has infected 4.8 million people around the world and killed more than 315,000.
  • "Planning for the clinical trial is underway," said Xie, adding it will be carried out in Australia and other countries since cases have dwindled in China, offering fewer human guinea pigs for testing.
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Scientists in China are taking a multi-pronged approach to fight the Coronavirus :
  • Vaccines development
  • Testing efficacy of existing drugs
  • Development of new drugs
  • Plasma therapy
Surely there are other countries in the West they could choose to test it on, Uk Brazil for example.
 

PikeCowboy

Junior Member

Haha companies are moving back.

Interesting news, I think it's about more than just the current epidemic though, because I can't see manufacturers shifting their production bases back and forth based on transient issues. I'm suspecting that a lot of manufacturers are finding that productivity isn't necessary where they thought it would be or perhaps there are other factors which didn't show up in the numbers in their original research.
 
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