Sunday, January 26, 2020

I'm Sure It's Nothing to Be Concerned About

Quite ...




Let's start with the way-back machine:

SARS, or Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (characterised by fever, coughs, muscle pain, lethargy and other flu-like symptoms) is a zoonotic respiratory that has been traced to bats in China. The initial outbreak in China in November 2002 and July 2003 resulted in 774 deaths. The first known case of SARS in Canada was on February 23rd, 2003. The patient - an elderly woman named Kwan Sui-Chu - died of SARS on March 5th. SARS eventually spread to 257 people in Ontario. Health officials, complete unprepared for this or any other outbreak, responded in a slow, haphazard way.

Despite what is being insisted now, the SARS outbreak was poorly handled and few effective measures are being enacted now.

How can one tell?

Because the government is involved.







The same government that insists that it can ably handle the new coronavirus coming out of China (more on that later) as it handled SARS is totally on top of this:

The Canadian government is rolling out information rather than surgical masks and thermal scanners to try to keep the country safe from a virus that has already killed more than two dozen people in China and left hundreds more sick.

The World Health Organization on Thursday chose not to declare a global health emergency because of the disease even as China quarantined more territory around the city at the heart of the outbreak, Wuhan, to prevent its spread.


Even as Chinese officials were scrambling to contain this outbreak and five people were being monitored for the coronavirus in Quebec, Canada's chief medical officer was playing down the chances of an outbreak here.

"While we are aware of incidents under investigation, we have no reports of any confirmed cases of this new coronavirus in Canada," Dr. Theresa Tam said during a technical briefing with reporters. "The risk of an outbreak in Canada remains low."


Ontario health officials have announced that a “presumptive” case of a new coronavirus has been discovered in Toronto, which, if confirmed, would mark the first instance of the illness in Canada.

That's how SARS happened in the first place and the same authorities that insisted it could handle anything that came its way left people waiting outside in wintry weather running basic fever checks on every single person who walked into hospitals.

Self-reporting? Is that what people who walk into Canada (which they are allowed to do) will be keen on?


This fresh incompetence comes on the tails of previous incompetence and/or treason:

Scientists from Canada’s National Microbiology Laboratory (NML) have also said the highly lethal bug is a potential bio-weapon.

But this March that same lab shipped samples of the henipavirus family and of Ebola to China, which has long been suspected of running a secretive biological warfare (BW) program.

China strongly denies it makes germ weapons, and Canadian officials say the shipment was part of its efforts to support public-health research worldwide. Sharing of such samples internationally is relatively standard practice.

But some experts are raising questions about the March transfer, which appears to be at the centre of a shadowy RCMP investigation and dismissal of a top scientist at the Winnipeg-based NML.

“I would say this Canadian ‘contribution’ might likely be counterproductive,” said Dany Shoham, a biological and chemical warfare expert at Israel’s Bar-Ilan University. “I think the Chinese activities … are highly suspicious, in terms of exploring (at least) those viruses as BW agents. “

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So -whose bright idea was it to let China handle these Biblical plagues in the first place?


Also - yeah, that's why they're doing that:

North Korea has banned foreign tourists and closed borders temporarily as Wuhan coronavirus spreads rapidly. 

The outbreak, which has killed three people in China so far, seems to have scuppered North Korea's hopes of earning hard currency from Chinese visitors to a brand-new ski resort town and other facilities it is frantically building.

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