What you didn't know? Are you not on social media? Do you not know that social media is akin to the delphic oracle which tells the truth and nothing but the truth?
Pearls Before Swine Comic Strip for February 26, 2020

Most of us are amused while reading the protocols of action, like "that means that if I had contact with a confirmed case without the appropriate gear, I get a sick leave for 14 days?" We will be planning next our special quarantine place in the mountains to help us recover from the burnout of dealing with so many heart breaking tragedies on a daily basis. 😇.
Just for you Gaby:
 
On twitter a friend find this and send it to me, it's a weird coincidence
A book by Dean Koontz, titled THE EYES OF DARKNESS and published in 1981 accurately predicted the outbreak of the coronavirus in China, even naming the very city in China it will begin from
An other guy mentionned that in 2008, the name of the virus was renamed as Wuhan-400 instead of Gorki-400 in a new edition of the book

The main stream press picked up on this with the following explanation, with Snopes to the rescue (sort of), pending a request from the publisher:


No, Dean Koontz did not predict coronavirus in 1981 thriller novel
TORONTO -- A passage from author Dean Koontz’s 1981 fictional novel “The Eyes of Darkness” has gone viral {no pun intended?} for purportedly predicting the real-world outbreak of the novel coronavirus.

Segments of the novel have been shared widely on social media over the last week, showing eerie similarities between the COVID-19 virus and the book’s fictional outbreak called “Wuhan-400.”

“They call the stuff Wuhan-400 because it was developed at their RDNA labs outside of the city of Wuhan,” reads a passage from the book, which can be seen on Amazon’s preview of the paperback edition of the novel published in December 2008.

While the novel includes mention of Wuhan, China, the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak, the book’s fictionalized outbreak is far from reality.

For starters, the “Wuhan-400” virus from the novel is a human-made biological weapon. The coronavirus is not, {now that that has been put to bed} despite online rumours suggesting the new virus was created in a lab early on in the outbreak.

Fact-checking website Snopes points out that in the novel, the “Wuhan-400” virus had a 100 per cent fatality rate, whereas the current coronavirus fatality rate sits at about two per cent.

The fact-checking website also notes that while the 2008 publication of the book mentions Wuhan, other iterations of the book used a different name for the fictional weapon.

“When we searched a 1981 edition of this book available via Google Books we found no references to “Wuhan.” In that edition, this biological weapon is called “Gorki-400” after the Russian city where it was created,” reads the Snopes investigation. {makes sense, the villain then was always Russia, so it looks like a shift was made in 2008 when Russian relations were better, before they got worse again, and China is it at the moment)

“We’re not entirely sure when or why this change occurred. From what we can tell, the biological weapon was originally called ‘Gorki-400’ when this book was published in 1981. But by 2008, the name had been changed to ‘Wuhan-400.’”

CTVNews.ca has contacted the publisher for comment on the matter.
 
And it seems to affect the left and the right... Today met someone for work whose husband is apparently seriously freaking out about it, to the point it's troubling the relationship. Bizarre.

I saw this image posted yesterday in one of the Russian telegram news groups. They say this photo was taken in Austria. Looks this way from the writings in the background.
 

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Going back to the focus on the vaccine and the antiviral treatment, the entire situation that got created (knowingly, in my opinion) with WHO immediately traveling to Ground Zero, the media frenzy, the instantaneous spread and now the petty squabbles around Vit C treatment (which is a valid treatment), serves more like an ambush to make the Chinese, by soft and manipulative means, submit to terms and conditions that under normal circumstance wouldn’t have even made the front door never mind the negotiating table. So maybe the virus is serious, but is a bad call to have been used as a trade war tool in the playbook. Everyone across the globe is making serious efforts to deal with the pressure, and resources are being depleted as they are mobilized, quite possibly for something that was just staged to look like a pandemic.

I don't know why I can't seem to shake off the thought - that it is actually WHO - that is somehow spreading the Coronavirus? Wuhan was the epicenter and when WHO was given permission by the Chinese Government to send in 3 field Specialists, reports of the virus began to surface outside the epicenter? Who was in Italy and now they are reporting a major outbreak? So far, Iran has not given WHO permission to visit the Country. Iran is reporting 16 deaths due to the Coronavirus, yet Vietnam claims to have cured 16 with no further outbreaks?

Not to mix apples and oranges but was any motive ever given for the crash of Ukraine’s Boeing 737 [departing from Tehran] on January 8th? Media did give a break down of the 179 Nationalities on the plane but I don't remember coming across a list of who might been on that plane? Would that plane crash have anything to do with the Coronavirus? Pompeo is accusing Iran of covering up details on the outbreak, like he's trying to force Iran into allowing WHO in to investigate?

Iranian security official accuses White House of cover-up about missile attack
Pompeo said on Tuesday the United States was “deeply concerned” Iran may have covered up details about the spread of coronavirus, and he called on all nations to “tell the truth” about the epidemic.


Iran’s coronavirus death toll rose to 16 on Tuesday, the highest outside China, increasing its international isolation as nations from South Korea to Italy accelerated emergency measures to curb the epidemic’s global spread.

Coronavirus spreads faster outside China, stoking global fears
The number of new coronavirus infections inside China - the source of the outbreak - was for the first time overtaken by fresh cases elsewhere on Wednesday, with Italy and Iran emerging as epicenters of the rapidly spreading illness.

All 16 of Vietnam's coronavirus sufferers cured
All 16 people in Vietnam infected with a new coronavirus have been cured, the health ministry said on Tuesday, adding that no new cases have been recorded since Feb. 13.

Iran urges citizens to stay at home as coronavirus spreads: TV

As death toll of those infected by the new coronavirus reached 16, Iran's health ministry on Tuesday urged Iranians to stay at home, a ministry spokesman told state TV.

In the U.S., Trump is stating Coronavirus in under control BUT the administration has sent the U.S. Congress a budget request for $2.5 billion to fight coronavirus? Pelosi doesn't think the amount is enough? The Pentagon is also requesting extra funding?

Trump says coronavirus under control in the U.S
President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that the coronavirus was under control in the United States, and added that he thought the stock market, which tumbled on Monday on worries over the fast-spreading disease, was "starting to look very good to me!"

Trump says coronavirus risk is low, puts Pence in charge of U.S. response
President Donald Trump told Americans on Wednesday that the risk from coronavirus remained "very low," and placed Vice President Mike Pence in charge of the U.S. response to the looming global health crisis.

Trump asking Congress for $2.5 billion to fight coronavirus: White House
The Trump administration is sending to the U.S. Congress a budget request for $2.5 billion to fight coronavirus, the White House said on Monday.

Trump's request for $2.5 billion to fight coronavirus 'inadequate', Pelosi says
U.S. President Donald Trump's request for $2.5 billion in supplemental funds to combat a coronavirus outbreak is "long overdue" and "completely inadequate" to the scale of the emergency, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said.

Let's not 'short change' funding for coronavirus response: U.S. Senate appropriations chair
The head of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee, Republican Senator Richard Shelby, said on Wednesday Congress should provide the Trump administration with the funds it needs to combat coronavirus.

Pentagon says may need additional funding to deal with coronavirus
The Pentagon told Congress on Wednesday it was reviewing the possibility it may need additional funding to deal with the spread of the coronavirus, hours after the U.S. military reported a soldier in South Korea had become infected.

U.S. health officials urge Americans to prepare for spread of coronavirus
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Tuesday alerted Americans to begin to prepare for community spread of the new coronavirus after reports this week of new cases in several more countries.

U.S. begins first coronavirus clinical trial testing Gilead's experimental drug
U.S. health officials said on Tuesday the first clinical trial testing Gilead Sciences Inc's experimental antiviral drug, Remdesivir, in hospitalized patients with the coronavirus has started.

Gilead starts two late-stage studies to test drug for coronavirus
Gilead Sciences Inc <GILD.O> said on Wednesday it has started two late-stage studies to test its drug in patients with severe and moderate cases of the illness caused by the coronavirus, sending its shares up 4% in extended trading.

Judge orders talks over plans to move virus patients to a California city
A U.S. judge barred the government from relocating coronavirus patients to southern California for another week on Monday and ordered it to discuss the move with state officials.

Coronavirus: Four maps and charts that show how serious the deadly virus is
Coronavirus: Four maps and charts that show how serious the deadly virus is
 
So, it would appear that this current virus is not "the big one" -
(Joe) Give us a percentage of the coronavirus becoming a REAL pandemic in the sense of global and LOTS of people dying.

A: Low.

Q: (Joe) That's what I thought. It's something else.

(L) But that doesn't mean that there's not another one waiting in the wings that's really serious.

A: Yes

Q: (Artemis) It's just a precursor to the plague.

(L) It's just getting us warmed up.
- and in the spirit of not letting a good crisis go to waste, as well as injecting more chaos, the current outbreak can serve to show how effectively the PTB can whip up hysteria/fear via MSM/social networking (while also hiding/deflecting their fault in causing the problem) and how the public will react to the viral threat and the steps taken to contain it.
And the WHO and media is 'all in' on helping them cover that up.
Suspicions about the lab are growing though, which is why the media is running interference on it...
All that stuff about bats, snakes, pangolins and the fish/wet market was probably disinformation in an effort to pawn blame for it off onto ordinary people.
Shi Zhengli, a lead researcher on bat-related viruses in the lab, posted on her WeChat account on Feb. 2 that the virus was “a punishment from the nature for humans’ uncivilized life habits,” and said she “guaranteed with her life” it was totally unrelated to the lab.
The outbreak is not a 'conspiracy' per se. It's probably an accident. It's only a conspiracy insofar as they're not openly admitting that messing around with vaccines caused the very thing they're supposedly all about preventing.
And, thanks to that "messing around", at least 2,768 people (so far) have died who would otherwise still be breathing/living their lives.

Were they really working to develop a vaccine or a bioweapon? Seeing that the vaccine/pharmaceutical industry is a multi-billion dollar enterprise, maybe it was really about the money. After all, maintaining those underground bases and off-planet spaceports/facilities requires a lot of dough! Plus, you can bet when a real plague breaks out, that's where all the elite vermin will flee!
 
An Italian friend from my Yoga Laugh group that lives in the North of Italy said that everything is close: cinémas, theaters, cafes, swimming pool. Everything. She is a police woman and she has to wear a mask at her job. She is very tired

Maybe they are trying something in Italy that they will impose to the rest of Europe? Why Italy? Why this is happening in Italy and all the coronavirus is coming now from Italy? A new case of Coronavirus here in the Islands (not my island for now but you will see very soon yes), and she is a woman that traveled to Italy at the beginning of February. For now we have 8, I say 8, cases of Coronavirus in Spain. And people are freaking. :headbash:
 
An Italian friend from my Yoga Laugh group that lives in the North of Italy said that everything is close: cinémas, theaters, cafes, swimming pool. Everything. She is a police woman and she has to wear a mask at her job. She is very tired

Maybe they are trying something in Italy that they will impose to the rest of Europe? Why Italy? Why this is happening in Italy and all the coronavirus is coming now from Italy? A new case of Coronavirus here in the Islands (not my island for now but you will see very soon yes), and she is a woman that traveled to Italy at the beginning of February. For now we have 8, I say 8, cases of Coronavirus in Spain. And people are freaking. :headbash:

I'm coming to Spain next week! Eeeeeeeeek!

The whole of Europe now has cases pretty much... You name a country and its getting added to the list. Losing track of them now.

Anyways, I'm not afraid, it's just a cold. Fear has no power over here. It's a cold. Just a bad cold. Yup, for sure, just a cold. Pandemia shmandemia...
 
It came here in Macedonia too. I mean the mass hysteria came.:-)
It is just crazy. It is a real hysteria everywhere. They forget everything and now the main concern is this new Corona virus.

People are calling on the phone and asking me not to let my kid go to school. Teachers are afraid and they were talking to kids to not come to school because they will spread the virus.

According to the authorities, there is one registered case in Macedonia until this moment.
The whole family is under police guard in their home in quarantine. Nobody can leave home.

All media are "reporting " ( or better term will be spreading hysteria or propaganda ) about this new deadly virus.

The department for infectious diseases in my town will be set up as a quarantine ( among other 2 in the state) in case Corona virus will infect more people.

And that " department for infectious disease" is not what the words are telling. It is an old wooden shed that is in terrible condition. Few small rooms inside with old rusty beds, sheets and blankets stained with blood so you can't really recognize their original color. Mold on walls, leaking roofs.

Lack of medical personnel is another story. It is working practically without any normal and serious doctors.
If you need any therapy there in normal times, you will have to go first to the pharmacy, buy the drugs, go back to the hospital and tell them to give you the drugs. Like on a market.
How can this be a quarantine that will treat and cure people? It is not a hospital it is a joke. The other 2 recommended quarantines are not better.

It has just started. We will see what measures will they take upon people to " stop the virus"
As I can see they will continue to spread fear more and more, and when they will reach the culmination point they will show up like a knight on a white horse with the new vaccine that will save us all from this deadly virus. Then people will fight to come in line and get the shot in order to save their life.

While all this is happening, silently in the background they will introduce new laws that will restrict people's rights even more.

This morning I listened to one TV channel and they said that doctors recommended taking vit C up to 1g so we could protect from Vit C.
No, this is not a joke, they are ( i mean doctors and medical personnel) so uneducated that it looks unreal. Not just about this. About everything.

We will see how will this show develop.
 
This is a very good one. Listen to this man speak.

In typical fashion, the US is now guilty of what it accused China of. This will become self evident soon!

 
Objectively, or subjectively? I'd say an outbreak objectively becomes a pandemic when at least 1% of the population of multiple countries spread around the globe become infected. An outbreak subjectively becomes a pandemic when a tiny fraction of one percent of the population in multiple countries become infected and an even smaller fraction of those die from the infection, but nevertheless the media says it's a pandemic (to sell papers/gain readers/earn money). So yeah, we're in a subjective pandemic, i.e. not one at all.
The use of the word 'pandemic' is interesting here, as thus far the WHO has not used the p-word yet, at least not as far as am able to ascertain. On their website, they still use the word 'outbreak'. Coronavirus

I think this article Is Wall Street Behind the Delay in Declaring the Coronavirus Outbreak a “Pandemic”? by Whitney Webb of yesterday is of some relevance here.

Here some snippets:

'The refusal to label the outbreak a pandemic is odd, since it refers to an epidemic or actively spreading disease that affects two or more regions worldwide. This currently describes the geographical spread of the highly contagious novel coronavirus, which has now resulted in significant clusters of cases far from China, namely in Italy and Iran. Countries closer to China, like South Korea, have also recently experienced an explosion in novel coronavirus infections.'

'It is possible that concerns over using the word “pandemic” could upset global markets and lead to economic turmoil, similar to what happened to the U.S. stock market following the CDC announcement on Tuesday. Though such concerns are valid, there is also evidence that a particular class of bonds issued by the World Bank that are closely related to official declarations of pandemics may also be responsible for having steered WHO and CDC officials away from using this term, even though the consequences of doing so could negatively impact global public health.'

'In June 2017, the World Bank announced the creation of “specialized bonds” that would be used to fund the previously created Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility (PEF) in the event of an officially-recognized (i.e. WHO-recognized) pandemic.'

'They were essentially sold under the premise that those who invested in the bonds would lose their money if any of six deadly pandemics hit, including coronavirus. Yet, if a pandemic did not occur before the bonds mature on July 15, 2020, investors would receive what they had originally paid for the bonds back in addition to interest and premium payments on those bonds that they recieve between the date of purchase and the bond’s maturation date.'

'In 2017, the news site Quartz described the mechanism of “pandemic bonds” as follows:

Investors buy the bonds and receive regular coupons payments in return. If there is an outbreak of disease, the investors don’t get their initial money back. There are two varieties of debt, both scheduled to mature in July 2020.
The first bond raised $225 million and features an interest rate of around 7%. Payout on the bond is suspended if there is an outbreak of new influenza viruses or coronaviridae (SARS, MERS). The second, riskier bond raised $95 million at an interest rate of more than 11%. This bond keeps investors’ money if there is an outbreak of Filovirus, Coronavirus, Lassa Fever, Rift Valley Fever, and/or Crimean Congo Hemorrhagic Fever. The World Bank also issued $105 million in swap derivatives that work in a similar way. (emphasis added)”'
'Some analysts have argued that these pandemic bonds were never intended to aid low-income pandemic-stricken countries, but instead to enrich Wall Street investors. For instance, American economic forecaster Martin Armstrong has called the World Bank’s pandemic bonds “a giant gamble in the global financial casino” and a “scheme like no other,” recently arguing that these bonds could present a “a structured derivative time bomb” that could upend financial markets if a pandemic is declared by WHO. Armstrong went on to say that it is in WHO’s interest to declare the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic, but noted that, in doing so, they would cause bondholders to take significant losses.'

'As the coronavirus outbreak grows, concern has grown among those invested in pandemic bonds that payout to countries affected by coronavirus will be triggered, despite the clear delay by WHO in declaring the outbreak as a pandemic. While WHO could theoretically alter the criteria that would trigger payout and cause bondholders to lose big, some recent reports have claimed that bondholders are seeking to rid themselves of the bonds prior to their July maturation date.'

'German media outlet Deutsche-Welle noted that the trigger for the first class of pandemic bonds, valued at $225 million, would normally have already been met due to the criterion of more than 2,500 deaths in a “developing country.” However, WHO has said this does not meet said criterion because it does not consider China to be a developing country, even though the World Bank’s own criteria do consider China to be a developing country.'

'For the second and riskier category of pandemic bonds, those bonds are triggered when the disease in question crosses an international border and causes more than 20 deaths in the second country. At the time of publication of this article, Iran has recorded at least 50 deaths, which should have triggered this second category of pandemic bonds, valued at $95 million. Yet, WHO yet to comment on how this criterion for the second category bonds has been met.'

Interesting to see how this one will play out.
 
Anyways, I'm not afraid, it's just a cold. Fear has no power over here. It's a cold. Just a bad cold. Yup, for sure, just a cold. Pandemia shmandemia...
It sounds as if you are actually terrified and in such a state it is not easy to stay open to new input. In Britain, where you appear to live, there are currently 13 cases of infection with zero deaths.
In 2017/2018 during the flu season in the UK, 26408 people died. Did you quarantine yourself during those 6 months and wear gloves and avoid all contact with people? The number infected were probable in the tens of millions in the UK. Did you stock up on food or were the supermarkets out of food due to mass panic? Did you blame the UK government for not declaring it a pandemic and sealing the borders? If you were up in arms about it then you didn't post about it here. Every year this killer pandemic called the flu comes, lots of people die and yet life goes on as normal without the population being alarmed about it.

The common flu kills every year, so it is not that one should not take precautions. If this corona virus kills 26408 people in the UK this year, you will probably feel vindicated and say "Told you so", but it would still not be something more than a bad flu season in line with other years.

Perhaps it will change for the worse, but we can only go on the current observations which are not alarming. The rhetoric is alarming, but not the actual observations so far. One of the consequences of such alarmism is as Gaby says, that all other diseases are put in the back of the cue as money is spent on those infected or suspected of being infected with the corona virus. The health budget is already strained and the UK is no different. The medical staff as Gaby explained is already massively overburdened and now on top of that they have a rush of people coming in, in panic states fearing the worst as social media, Zerohedge, Falun Gong and others say so.

If all mask disappear from the shelves due to panic buying, soon the doctors might find themselves without surgical mask to perform operations. Do you see how fear based on imagined scenarios and not actual observations can bring a society to its knees? It can lead to a number of people dying due to a lack of normal medical care for otherwise curable diseases due to a lack of resources. The corona virus is already being used as the scapegoat for shutting down the economy and for the coming depression.
 
My friend lives in Zagreb, Croatia, and says that shelves in the store are half or completely empty, no disinfectants or masks to buy either.
The prime minister urges people not to panic but no use....

I actually liked this article; not sure if his numbers match but sounds right :)
_Ugledni hrvatski znanstvenik objasnio kolika je doista šansa da se zarazite koronavirusom: "Ovi podaci sve govore"
A reputable Croatian scientist explained what a chance of getting a coronavirus was:
Croatian molecular biologist Igor Stagljar (works at the University of Toronto) says panic about coronaviruses is unnecessary, and he has backed up the figures.
According to his calculations, the chance of getting a coronavirus is only 0.7%. So, chances are 99.3% that you won't get sick. If two data are considered - the possibility of infection and the death - for a person of 45 years, for example. the probability that a coronavirus will kill it is 0.0028%.

'' China has a population of 1.386 billion, with 77,000 infected with 1.4 billion Chinese, up just 0.0055 percent. This means that 99.9945 percent of the population in the country of origin does not have the virus, that is, they are not infected. If you put down 10,000 Chinese, only five of them will have the virus and 9995 will not. That's how contagious this virus is. The point of the whole story is that there is a danger, but it's completely unnecessary to create this kind of panic, '' explained Igor Stagljar of the Department of Biochemistry and Medical Genetics.
 
In Torino where i live despite the Schools, the universities, theatres, the gyms, the museum's being closed the daily life continues as before. The people on the street are calm, don't sense a lot of panic regarding the coronavirus around me, in fact people are more concerned with losing their jobs because almost no one from outside Italy is coming to the northern Italy becuase of fear, as a consecuence the hospitality industry, the restaurants, bars ecc. are suffering HUGE losses. Just in the last couple of days at work we've received hundreds of cancellations of the reservations, the company lost huge amounts of money, the hotel these days is almost empty and the situation is the same in every hotel in Torino not speaking of Milano where the situation is far worse, so yes that's the real thing that saddens and worries me, the absurdity of the situation, because of the hysteria many people are risking their lives to be ruined. From what i heard at work, if the situation will continue so for another month there will be a high probability for the company to close at least until all this nonsense won't end. Though as I wrote previously I do hope that the situation will get better in the next couple of weeks. Will see.
 
In Torino where i live despite the Schools, the universities, theatres, the gyms, the museum's being closed the daily life continues as before. The people on the street are calm, don't sense a lot of panic regarding the coronavirus around me, in fact people are more concerned with losing their jobs because almost no one from outside Italy is coming to the northern Italy becuase of fear, as a consecuence the hospitality industry, the restaurants, bars ecc. are suffering HUGE losses. Just in the last couple of days at work we've received hundreds of cancellations of the reservations, the company lost huge amounts of money, the hotel these days is almost empty and the situation is the same in every hotel in Torino not speaking of Milano where the situation is far worse, so yes that's the real thing that saddens and worries me, the absurdity of the situation, because of the hysteria many people are risking their lives to be ruined. From what i heard at work, if the situation will continue so for another month there will be a high probability for the company to close at least until all this nonsense won't end. Though as I wrote previously I do hope that the situation will get better in the next couple of weeks. Will see.
To me, it looks like the PTB used the spread of this not a very dangerous virus just to oppress people, share fear and hysteria among the population and mostly to make a big economic crisis. Fear and hysteria will make economics decline. I think that this was their main goal.
It started in China and China is the biggest economy in the world now, then in Northern Italy which is an area that has a very developed industry.

I don't have any real arguments but I feel that economic crisis and cutting people's rights with the excuse that they are protecting their lives is the main goal of all this.

Or it is just a test run for something really big and really dangerous that they know will come in the future and this is a good opportunity to make one huge-scale experiment and see how people and institutions will react on a threat like this.
Just a thought that came to my mind.
 
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