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1. 80% of the people over 60 who contract the Coronavirus die. 

2. People who contract the Coronavirus could remain asymptomatic for up to four weeks while infecting others. The quarantine should be at least five weeks to know for sure if a person is infected. Fourteen days in quarantine doesn’t prove or disprove conclusively if the person is infected.  

This comes directly from an epidemiologist working in the epicenter of the epidemic. 

The same epidemiologist said that there are hundreds of thousands, of not millions, of the people already infected in China. 

CDC is now saying that they can’t prevent the epidemic in the US. I guess the government will after all be able to solve the social security and Medicare problem. This Coronavirus will wipe out virtually everyone over 60 within the next few years. 

Foxconn has just announced that they are not reopening their factories next Monday, which was to be expected. 

The reality with the Coronavirus is much worse than what China wants the rest of the world to
 believe. There is likely a million people or more already infected, and the official numbers of dead are just the tip of the iceberg. 

There’s a report on NPR this morning that those found infected are rounded up and moved to quarantine camps against their will in China. Hong Kong announced that those who are placed under quarantine and break it will face 6 months in prison and a big fine. Let’s be honest here: measures like these are not taken to stave off a rather insignificant virus that China wants the rest of the world believe that Coronavirus is. You don’t quarantine over 60 million people, build concentration camps for those infected, shut down your entire economy, threaten doctors with prison terms for sharing information, etc. if this were a mild seasonal viral infection. 

One thing I learned from this experience is what Chinese dietary habits are like. The horror animal markets in China and Indonesia where dogs, cats, rats, bats, monkeys, etc. are sold for food, bludgeoned in front of the buyers and then cooked  with blowtorches while still alive and screaming from unbearable pain. That is something that I will never be able to get out of my mind. I will NEVER eat in a Chinese restaurant - not in the US nor anywhere else in the world. I haven’t eaten Chinese food in over a decade, but now I have a good reason to never do this again. You never know what meat you will be served there. There’s always been a rumor that you may be served dogs, cats, and rats, but I always thought this was just a bad joke. Now I know that’s what the Chinese eat in China, and chances are that those cheap Chinese buffets in the US are not cheap because of some magic but for a reason. 

1. We cannot rely on the Chinese government to report accurate numbers of infected or dead. Most likely, the  numbers are significantly underreported. 

2. There are not enough testing kits or lab facilities to test everyone who has symptoms. People get turned away because of the inadequate testing facilities. 

3. People cannot get their sick relatives into the hospitals due to the lack of space. Sick people go back home until they get so sick that they end up in the emergency room on the floor waiting for over 12 hours to be seen. There are reports of people dying in the ER before being seen. Other reports say that relatives take their sick back home to let their loved ones die at home rather than on the floor of the ER. 

4. We know that the Chinese government is trying to suppress the true reports of what’s happening. Doctors who raise alarm over the severity of the epidemic are summoned to the police and made sign a paper saying that they should stop immediately leaking information about the severity of the situation under the threat of being prosecuted and jailed. That happened to the ophthalmologist who alerted the world of the Coronavirus in the beginning of January. He subsequently got sick during the first week of January by caring for his patients. The Chinese government denied that the Coronavirus could be spread from one person to another even though this doctor got infected in the hospital. Today, this doctor died in the hospital, but as the news spread, the hospital continued to deny that the doctor died and continued to list him in serious condition for hours until they finally admitted that he had died. He was 34 and in perfect health before he got infected. Because he realized what he was dealing with before he was infected, he wore a mask and protected himself in any possible way known to medicine. Yet, he fell victim to this virus. 

5. Crematorium workers in China
report significantly higher numbers of dead delivered for cremation. They are saying they had never seen so many people dying every day.

6, The official Chinese statistics lists 31,452 cases (as of this writing) with 632 deaths and 1,341 recovered. Therefore, according to this statistics, over 2% of all reported cases have died, but only a little over 4% have recovered. What is happening to the rest 93+%? We don’t know. If they have not recovered and have not died, most likely many are in serious condition. Because, otherwise, they would be listed as recovered. A viral infection from a flu-like virus  normally goes away within 7 days, so we are talking about tens of thousands of people who have not recovered in 7-14 days. The ophthalmologist who died today first reported his symptoms exactly a month ago. So, it took him 30 days to die from this virus. We may see an escalating number of deaths from those who are currently listed as infected but not recovered. 

7. The Chinese government has taken unprecedented measures to quarantine over 60 million people and completely shut down their economy indefinitely. This reaction doesn’t jibe with relatively low numbers of infections and deaths officially reported. China will not jeopardize their economic growth during a trade war with the US unless the alternative is even more catastrophic than idling the entire economy. 

It’s not like what he is saying is out of the realm of possible.