I agree, Tabby.
I have no crystal ball but this coronavirus could be the “Big One”. Or maybe not. Too soon to tell. Of one thing I am certain, the W.H.O. has issued a world wide emergency warning AND the U.S has pulled U.S citizens out of Wuhan, China and they are now in isolation at a military base in California. The isolation will last a minimum of 14 days, unless someone tests positive. Also, any planes leaving anywhere from China are to land exclusively at specially prepared sites in the U.S. Once there, all passengers will undergo two separate testing facilities.
The W.H.O. and the C.D.C. in the U.S., are not going to all this trouble unless the threat is deemed damned serious.
I say, “Better safe than sorry”.
As for any apocalyptic conspiracy theories, I say, “HOG WASH”. We have a far better chance of being run over by a car than being nuked.
Moreover, I do not appreciate the numerous off topic posts alleging a U.S. inspired conspiracy against China.
I just saw a photo of the inside of the cockpit in the U.S. plane which evacuated U.S. citizens from Wuhan, China. The pilot and the co-pilot were in full bio-hazard suits with what appeared to be a separate air supply.
Photo was CNN news service but I could not cut and paste it. Photo taken from outside of the plane.
This photo taken at a stop in Anchorage, Alaska during a re-fueling stop. Jeez, if I was on that plane I’d be scared to death .
Australia is sending evacuees to Christmas Island if they get permission for them to leave China. They will be charged $1000 for the flight and have to stay in the Christmas Island Detention Centre for 2 weeks.
The Detention Centre was reopened by the government because of their predicted swarm of refugees coming from Manus and Nauru after the medivac legislation was passed last year (it was repealed after the election). Currently it holds four people.
One slight problem - Christmas Island runway can’t take a jumbo jet so once out of China they will have to transfer to smaller planes somewhere else.
Coronavirus is not a single virus but a family of viruses which includes the common cold, SARS (the severe acute respiratory syndrome, of which there were outbreaks in 2002 and 2004) and this new coronavirus identified in people in Wuhan.
There are no patents for this new coronavirus.
A patent application from 2015 does exist for a different type of coronavirus and is referred to by users in the comments to the post.
This patent refers to a “live attenuated” version of the avian infectious bronchitis virus (IBV). This is essentially a weakened version of the virus, patented with the aim of eventually developing it into a vaccine against the disease for birds and other animals.
This patent is held by the UK-based Pirbright Institute, researchers of viral diseases in livestock.
The Pirbright Institute is not owned by Jacob Rothschild. We can find no evidence of any link between Mr Rothschild and the Institute.
The Institute says that in 2018/19 it received £12.6 million from public funds through the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council and £35 million from grants and commercial activity.
This article is part of our work factchecking potentially false pictures, videos and stories on Facebook. You can read more about this—and find out how to report Facebook content—here. For the purposes of that scheme, we’ve rated this claim as false because there is no patent for the coronavirus found in Wuhan and so it’s incorrect to say that Jacob Rothschild owns the patent.
Out of date information. As was stated earlier an Australian Lab has isolated the virus from a patient and successfully grown it and is sharing it with the world so that it can be studied and work commenced on a vaccine.
That statement clearly implies that there ARE patents for other forms of Coronavirus.
The above essentially confirms that these deadly viruses ARE being manufactured but their excuse is that they are generating weaker versions in order to be able to create a lucrative profit making vaccine.
Believe what you will but for me this is no different to computer antivirus businesses. If there were no computer viruses these companies wouldn’t be making $millions so where do people really think the viruses are coming from and why do you think Microsoft leave so many holes in their operating systems to be exploited?
Very lucrative business indeed !
The war on our health continues for the sake of making $billions for pharmaceuticals and associated institutes.
The common cold is a coronavirus and they have been studying that and no doubt replicating it for decades. It’s perfectly possible that this could have escaped via an infected animal in a research lab, but it wasn’t deliberately done to cause an epidemic. Perhaps some animal rights activist is to blame.
Am I the only person who had never heard of Wuhan ( a city bigger than London ) ?
I had no idea that so many expats were living there what are they all doing ?
Have to agree Swims the more I read about it the more I’m convinced it’s a massive over reaction . Unless of course we are not being told the whole truth.
Am l being pedantic or did l see the bus drivers of the convoy that
took the returning tourists from their aircraft to the isolation
hospital had no protection from getting infected by their passengers?
What will happen on monday when they pick up the schoolkids
for school, or take a load of pensioners to another town or city??
Maybe l was seeing things??
Just asking??
Donkeyman!
