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Residents of Wuhan reportedly heard loud noises at approximately 1pm local time on Thursday, which shook windows and floors of nearby residents, followed by what appears to be nearly a dozen helicopters.
Reports on power grid explosion in China
https://twitter.com/russian_market/status/1228059451510448129
The helicopters
https://twitter.com/Alston_Kwan/status/1227855083892658177
Coronavirus: Why many deaths will never appear in official figures - 12 Feb 2020
- Wuhan’s overburdened health workers are unable to confirm many of those who died were suffering from Covid-19, so they will not show up in official figures
- The families of those who die at home are also denied the comfort of being able to make proper funeral arrangements [nor are those dying at home who weren't diagnosed counted in the CVID-19 death figures - W]
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/soc...body-china-knows-about-many-deaths-will-never
Retired Wuhan factory worker Wei Junlan had always been in good health, but around two weeks after developing the first signs of a cough and fever, the 63-year-old was dead from what doctors suspect was the new coronavirus.
But her death on January 21 will not show up in official statistics about the outbreak – her death certificate listed the cause only as “heavy pneumonia”.
Her nephew Jerry Shang said that Wei had not been tested for the disease, but that the doctor said her symptoms – including a lung infection, fever and increasing weakness – closely matched those of Covid-19, the disease caused by the virus.
By the end she was unable to walk, and the last the family saw of her was when she was being wheeled into the emergency room. The doctor told the family: “It’s the pneumonia that everybody around the country knows about.”
Local doctors have heard of many such cases and many Wuhan residents have complained that family members cannot get a proper diagnosis because frontline hospitals are overwhelmed in the face of high patient numbers and a shortage of supplies and testing kits.
Wei Peng, a community hospital doctor in the city, said that medical staff were not allowed to list coronavirus as a cause of death when cases had not been confirmed and said that later instructions had even banned them from listing pneumonia. Instead they can only write the immediate cause of a patient’s death, such as diabetes or organ failure.
He also said the problem was compounded by the difficulty in getting some patients to hospital in time.
He gave the example of a woman whose father died at home because she did not have the strength to get him to her car and the ambulance was too busy to collect him.
“Such patients die at home, nothing can be done, and they cannot be counted in the official numbers,” he said. Some patients, like Wei, have died without it ever being confirmed what had taken their lives.
Students’ dormitories ‘ransacked’ after requisitioned for coronavirus quarantine use in China
12 Feb 2020
- South Korean media said the trade official was arrested and immediately shot
- Kim Jong-un has imposed military law to enforce the coronavirus quarantine
- North Korea has no confirmed cases [of course, they lie worse than the Chinese Communist Party - W] but has taken strict quarantine measures
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...es-official-public-bath-visit-quarantine.html
The trade official was reportedly quarantined under a policy of isolating anyone who had been to China or had contact with Chinese people.
He is said to have fallen foul of a decree by Kim Jong-un which vowed to 'rule by military law' against anyone who left quarantine without approval.
Another official is said to have been exiled to a North Korean farm after trying to cover up his travels to China.
The second official was reportedly a member of the secretive kingdom's National Security Agency.
North Korea has almost completely closed the border with China, its only major diplomatic ally.
Flights have been reduced with road and rail links either closed or heavily restricted, while foreign tourists have been banned.
State media reported that North Korea's Red Cross Society had deployed to 'relevant areas' around the country to monitor people with possible symptoms.
It was unknown how many of them have returned home.
World Health Organisation officials based in Pyongyang have said they are not aware of any confirmed cases.
However, some South Korean media outlets have reported multiple cases and even possible deaths from the virus in the North.
North Korea took similar tough quarantine measures during the 2002-03 spread of SARS, which also began in China.
The North did not report any SARS cases at the time, according to the South Korean government.
A health worker in protective gear carries a disinfectant spray can on their way to inspect arrivals at Pyongyang Airport in North Korea:
While all other news sources are clueless, this one has many details:
Coronavirus 'Spreading in N.Korea'
February 05, 2020
https://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2020/02/05/2020020502187.html
Wuhan Crematory 127 Yesterday, This is 4 to 5 Times Normal Rate
9 Feb 2020
https://moneymaven.io/mishtalk/econ...-4-5-times-normal-rate-hcpFWN-1pEKCzCo26oPXLA
Here is a translation from China Press on Worker Burnout at the Wuhan Crematorium.
The site does not allow capturing text so I made this image clip.
Only 8 of 116 Counted as an Official [COVID-19] Death
That is just one funeral home.
China Vows To Put An End To "Lab Leakage Of Pathogenic Microorganisms And Various Samples"
13 Feb 2020
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/china-vows-put-end-lab-leakage-pathogenic-samples
Seemingly providing more anecdotal evidence that the Covid-19 outbreak was caused by an accidental leak of a bio-engineered virus and not by some freak of nature in Wuhan's market, China's Communist Party has issued a serious "Wartime Order" demanding more care and containment be taken with virus handling. Specifically:
“Strengthen laboratory management and resolutely put an end to the theft, leakage, and loss of pathogenic bacteria (poisons) and various samples...”
... the idea that a Chinese lab could have a viral sample escape is well-documented – as mentioned, one lab in Beijing has had four separate incidents of the SARS virus leaking out accidentally. “These narratives of escaped pathogens have common themes,” argued an analysis of biocontainment failures by medical historian Martin Furmanski in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. “There are unrecognized technical flaws in standard biocontainment... The first infection, or index case, happens in a person not working directly with the pathogen that infects him or her, as in the smallpox and SARS escapes. Poor training of personnel and slack oversight of laboratory procedures negate policy efforts by national and international bodies to achieve biosecurity, as shown in the SARS and smallpox escapes.”
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Smoking Gun? Chinese Scientist Finds "Killer Coronavirus Probably Originated From A Laboratory In Wuhan"
14 Feb 2020
https://www.zerohedge.com/health/sm...onavirus-probably-originated-laboratory-wuhan
The uncertainty and the debate over the origins of the coronavirus pandemic are growing with each passing day.
That has now changed, however, with what may be a "smoking gun" report from a scientist at the prestigious South China University of Technology in Guangzhou China. A pre-print published by Botao Xiao and Lei Xiao, titled "The possible origins of 2019-nCoV coronavirus" whose abstract is the following:
"The 2019-nCoV has caused an epidemic of 28,060 laboratory-confirmed infections in human including 564 deaths in China by February 6, 2020. Two descriptions of the virus published on Nature this week indicated that the genome sequences from patients were almost identical to the Bat CoV ZC45 coronavirus. It was critical to study where the pathogen came from and how it passed onto human. An article published on The Lancet reported that 27 of 41 infected patients were found to have contact with the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan. We noted two laboratories conducting research on bat coronavirus in Wuhan, one of which was only 280 meters from the seafood market. We briefly examined the histories of the laboratories and proposed that the coronavirus probably originated from a laboratory. Our proposal provided an alternative origin of the coronavirus in addition to natural recombination and intermediate host."
and an especially ominous conclusion:
"In summary, somebody was entangled with the evolution of 2019-nCoV coronavirus. In addition to origins of natural recombination and intermediate host, the killer coronavirus probably originated from a laboratory in Wuhan."
Who is Botao and should anyone listen to him? Well, yes: this is what we find about the research group of the Harvard post-doc:
"The Xiao group study mainly in the fields of cellular and molecular biomechanics, single molecule biophysics and engineering. Current research areas are: protein-ligand interactions, DNA and RNA assembly, high-throughput nanometer measurements and manipulation, mathematical modeling and quantitative analysis. The experimental techniques include: magnetic tweezers, optical tweezers, biomembrane force probe, fluorescent microscopy, genetic engineering, and chromatography. An project example is using high-throughput single molecule techniques to study the modulation of protein drugs on interactions of integrins and their ligands such as TGF-beta. We also study von Willebrand Factor and glycoproteins on platelets. We collaborate with a number of well-known universities and institutions, and a few enterprises. Our research will be of relevance for the prevention and treatment of cancer, immune and cardiovascular diseases."
But what is far more interesting, and important, is that the paper was supported by China's National Natural Science Foundation, which means that the paper would likely never see the light of day if someone in Beijing did not stand to gain politically by endorsing the contrarian theory that a Wuhan biolab was indeed the source of the infection.
Which begs the question: is China's political elite set to change the narrative it has been spinning since day one about the origins of the coronavirus, and in order to appease an increasingly angry population, points the finger to one or more scientists at the Wuhan Center for Disease Control and Prevention and/or Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Another extremely informative video as usual from this Hong Kong sourced channel with COVID-19 related news from INSIDE China and covered nowhere else.
China fights coronavirus with 'wartime' measures
Is The Coronavirus Now Unstoppable? New Data Suggests So [the Los Alamos study I previously linked to is explained starting at 9:00]
'It's Coming': CDC Director says to prepare for coronavirus to become widespread in America
WHO Turns On China, Demands To Know How Nearly 2,000 Doctors Were Infected With COVID-19
14 Feb 2020
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopoliti...s-infected-shortages-medical-supplies-persist
The WHO has just wrapped up its now-daily presser for Friday, and it appeared to focus on imminent plans to send a group of a dozen scientists and researchers to Beijing to figure out exactly what the hell is going on.
Much fuss has been made over the past week over China's continued refusals to allow Americans, or any other foreigners, for that matter, to offer assistance with the virus response. It's almost as if they're...hiding something...
Even after yesterday's big reveal about the change in their 'pro forma accounting standards' to reflect a higher death toll and number of confirmed cases (the jump alarmed global investors and prompted a selloff on equity markets), China still won't let Americans participate in a WHO-sponsored team of 12 researchers who are traveling to the mainland.
It was a big deal earlier this week when Beijing said it would reluctantly accept the team, ending weeks of suspiciously standoffish behavior (though the WHO bigwigs did travel to Beijing for meetings). But as one analyst said earlier on CNBC: 'We want to see foreign boots on the ground before we simply take the Chinese at their word'.
It's also notable how the WHO, initially a purveyor of what seemed like propaganda hot off the presses in Beijing, seems to have turned completely against its benefactor, now treating it with public suspicion.
After imposing strict lockdown conditions on nearly a third of the country, Beijing is kicking off its shift to 'wartime measures' by adopting even more strikingly draconian measures on the residents of its capital city.
From Feb. 14 on, all people returning to the city will be advised to quarantine for 14 days.
Residents of Wuhan reportedly heard loud noises at approximately 1pm local time on Thursday, which shook windows and floors of nearby residents, followed by what appears to be nearly a dozen helicopters.
Reports on power grid explosion in China
https://twitter.com/russian_market/status/1228059451510448129
The helicopters
https://twitter.com/Alston_Kwan/status/1227855083892658177
Coronavirus: Why many deaths will never appear in official figures - 12 Feb 2020
- Wuhan’s overburdened health workers are unable to confirm many of those who died were suffering from Covid-19, so they will not show up in official figures
- The families of those who die at home are also denied the comfort of being able to make proper funeral arrangements [nor are those dying at home who weren't diagnosed counted in the CVID-19 death figures - W]
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/soc...body-china-knows-about-many-deaths-will-never
Retired Wuhan factory worker Wei Junlan had always been in good health, but around two weeks after developing the first signs of a cough and fever, the 63-year-old was dead from what doctors suspect was the new coronavirus.
But her death on January 21 will not show up in official statistics about the outbreak – her death certificate listed the cause only as “heavy pneumonia”.
Her nephew Jerry Shang said that Wei had not been tested for the disease, but that the doctor said her symptoms – including a lung infection, fever and increasing weakness – closely matched those of Covid-19, the disease caused by the virus.
By the end she was unable to walk, and the last the family saw of her was when she was being wheeled into the emergency room. The doctor told the family: “It’s the pneumonia that everybody around the country knows about.”
Local doctors have heard of many such cases and many Wuhan residents have complained that family members cannot get a proper diagnosis because frontline hospitals are overwhelmed in the face of high patient numbers and a shortage of supplies and testing kits.
Wei Peng, a community hospital doctor in the city, said that medical staff were not allowed to list coronavirus as a cause of death when cases had not been confirmed and said that later instructions had even banned them from listing pneumonia. Instead they can only write the immediate cause of a patient’s death, such as diabetes or organ failure.
He also said the problem was compounded by the difficulty in getting some patients to hospital in time.
He gave the example of a woman whose father died at home because she did not have the strength to get him to her car and the ambulance was too busy to collect him.
“Such patients die at home, nothing can be done, and they cannot be counted in the official numbers,” he said. Some patients, like Wei, have died without it ever being confirmed what had taken their lives.
Students’ dormitories ‘ransacked’ after requisitioned for coronavirus quarantine use in China
12 Feb 2020
North Korea 'executes trade official for visiting a public bath while he was in quarantine over coronavirus fears after returning from China'
- South Korean media said the trade official was arrested and immediately shot
- Kim Jong-un has imposed military law to enforce the coronavirus quarantine
- North Korea has no confirmed cases [of course, they lie worse than the Chinese Communist Party - W] but has taken strict quarantine measures
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...es-official-public-bath-visit-quarantine.html
The trade official was reportedly quarantined under a policy of isolating anyone who had been to China or had contact with Chinese people.
He is said to have fallen foul of a decree by Kim Jong-un which vowed to 'rule by military law' against anyone who left quarantine without approval.
Another official is said to have been exiled to a North Korean farm after trying to cover up his travels to China.
The second official was reportedly a member of the secretive kingdom's National Security Agency.
North Korea has almost completely closed the border with China, its only major diplomatic ally.
Flights have been reduced with road and rail links either closed or heavily restricted, while foreign tourists have been banned.
State media reported that North Korea's Red Cross Society had deployed to 'relevant areas' around the country to monitor people with possible symptoms.
It was unknown how many of them have returned home.
World Health Organisation officials based in Pyongyang have said they are not aware of any confirmed cases.
However, some South Korean media outlets have reported multiple cases and even possible deaths from the virus in the North.
North Korea took similar tough quarantine measures during the 2002-03 spread of SARS, which also began in China.
The North did not report any SARS cases at the time, according to the South Korean government.
A health worker in protective gear carries a disinfectant spray can on their way to inspect arrivals at Pyongyang Airport in North Korea:
While all other news sources are clueless, this one has many details:
Coronavirus 'Spreading in N.Korea'
February 05, 2020
https://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2020/02/05/2020020502187.html
Wuhan Crematory 127 Yesterday, This is 4 to 5 Times Normal Rate
9 Feb 2020
https://moneymaven.io/mishtalk/econ...-4-5-times-normal-rate-hcpFWN-1pEKCzCo26oPXLA
Here is a translation from China Press on Worker Burnout at the Wuhan Crematorium.
The site does not allow capturing text so I made this image clip.
Only 8 of 116 Counted as an Official [COVID-19] Death
That is just one funeral home.
China Vows To Put An End To "Lab Leakage Of Pathogenic Microorganisms And Various Samples"
13 Feb 2020
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/china-vows-put-end-lab-leakage-pathogenic-samples
Seemingly providing more anecdotal evidence that the Covid-19 outbreak was caused by an accidental leak of a bio-engineered virus and not by some freak of nature in Wuhan's market, China's Communist Party has issued a serious "Wartime Order" demanding more care and containment be taken with virus handling. Specifically:
“Strengthen laboratory management and resolutely put an end to the theft, leakage, and loss of pathogenic bacteria (poisons) and various samples...”
... the idea that a Chinese lab could have a viral sample escape is well-documented – as mentioned, one lab in Beijing has had four separate incidents of the SARS virus leaking out accidentally. “These narratives of escaped pathogens have common themes,” argued an analysis of biocontainment failures by medical historian Martin Furmanski in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. “There are unrecognized technical flaws in standard biocontainment... The first infection, or index case, happens in a person not working directly with the pathogen that infects him or her, as in the smallpox and SARS escapes. Poor training of personnel and slack oversight of laboratory procedures negate policy efforts by national and international bodies to achieve biosecurity, as shown in the SARS and smallpox escapes.”
-----------
Smoking Gun? Chinese Scientist Finds "Killer Coronavirus Probably Originated From A Laboratory In Wuhan"
14 Feb 2020
https://www.zerohedge.com/health/sm...onavirus-probably-originated-laboratory-wuhan
The uncertainty and the debate over the origins of the coronavirus pandemic are growing with each passing day.
That has now changed, however, with what may be a "smoking gun" report from a scientist at the prestigious South China University of Technology in Guangzhou China. A pre-print published by Botao Xiao and Lei Xiao, titled "The possible origins of 2019-nCoV coronavirus" whose abstract is the following:
"The 2019-nCoV has caused an epidemic of 28,060 laboratory-confirmed infections in human including 564 deaths in China by February 6, 2020. Two descriptions of the virus published on Nature this week indicated that the genome sequences from patients were almost identical to the Bat CoV ZC45 coronavirus. It was critical to study where the pathogen came from and how it passed onto human. An article published on The Lancet reported that 27 of 41 infected patients were found to have contact with the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan. We noted two laboratories conducting research on bat coronavirus in Wuhan, one of which was only 280 meters from the seafood market. We briefly examined the histories of the laboratories and proposed that the coronavirus probably originated from a laboratory. Our proposal provided an alternative origin of the coronavirus in addition to natural recombination and intermediate host."
and an especially ominous conclusion:
"In summary, somebody was entangled with the evolution of 2019-nCoV coronavirus. In addition to origins of natural recombination and intermediate host, the killer coronavirus probably originated from a laboratory in Wuhan."
Who is Botao and should anyone listen to him? Well, yes: this is what we find about the research group of the Harvard post-doc:
"The Xiao group study mainly in the fields of cellular and molecular biomechanics, single molecule biophysics and engineering. Current research areas are: protein-ligand interactions, DNA and RNA assembly, high-throughput nanometer measurements and manipulation, mathematical modeling and quantitative analysis. The experimental techniques include: magnetic tweezers, optical tweezers, biomembrane force probe, fluorescent microscopy, genetic engineering, and chromatography. An project example is using high-throughput single molecule techniques to study the modulation of protein drugs on interactions of integrins and their ligands such as TGF-beta. We also study von Willebrand Factor and glycoproteins on platelets. We collaborate with a number of well-known universities and institutions, and a few enterprises. Our research will be of relevance for the prevention and treatment of cancer, immune and cardiovascular diseases."
But what is far more interesting, and important, is that the paper was supported by China's National Natural Science Foundation, which means that the paper would likely never see the light of day if someone in Beijing did not stand to gain politically by endorsing the contrarian theory that a Wuhan biolab was indeed the source of the infection.
Which begs the question: is China's political elite set to change the narrative it has been spinning since day one about the origins of the coronavirus, and in order to appease an increasingly angry population, points the finger to one or more scientists at the Wuhan Center for Disease Control and Prevention and/or Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Another extremely informative video as usual from this Hong Kong sourced channel with COVID-19 related news from INSIDE China and covered nowhere else.
China fights coronavirus with 'wartime' measures
Is The Coronavirus Now Unstoppable? New Data Suggests So [the Los Alamos study I previously linked to is explained starting at 9:00]
'It's Coming': CDC Director says to prepare for coronavirus to become widespread in America
WHO Turns On China, Demands To Know How Nearly 2,000 Doctors Were Infected With COVID-19
14 Feb 2020
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopoliti...s-infected-shortages-medical-supplies-persist
The WHO has just wrapped up its now-daily presser for Friday, and it appeared to focus on imminent plans to send a group of a dozen scientists and researchers to Beijing to figure out exactly what the hell is going on.
Much fuss has been made over the past week over China's continued refusals to allow Americans, or any other foreigners, for that matter, to offer assistance with the virus response. It's almost as if they're...hiding something...
Even after yesterday's big reveal about the change in their 'pro forma accounting standards' to reflect a higher death toll and number of confirmed cases (the jump alarmed global investors and prompted a selloff on equity markets), China still won't let Americans participate in a WHO-sponsored team of 12 researchers who are traveling to the mainland.
It was a big deal earlier this week when Beijing said it would reluctantly accept the team, ending weeks of suspiciously standoffish behavior (though the WHO bigwigs did travel to Beijing for meetings). But as one analyst said earlier on CNBC: 'We want to see foreign boots on the ground before we simply take the Chinese at their word'.
It's also notable how the WHO, initially a purveyor of what seemed like propaganda hot off the presses in Beijing, seems to have turned completely against its benefactor, now treating it with public suspicion.
After imposing strict lockdown conditions on nearly a third of the country, Beijing is kicking off its shift to 'wartime measures' by adopting even more strikingly draconian measures on the residents of its capital city.
From Feb. 14 on, all people returning to the city will be advised to quarantine for 14 days.
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