Paul Craig Roberts: Coronavirus Wake-up Call – Big Scare Hype, Bioweapon or What?

This non event of a virus – isn’t even up to boring annual common or garden regular flu – threat level – lol

– Chugging Along For A Month & WORLDWIDE >>>> Under 500 Dead

- and as you will see in some REAL Investigative NEWS (NY TIMES)

Even those dying are the old & sick on their last legs anyway

As To A – Biological Weapon Ha Ha Ha Ha !!!!!!!!!!!!!
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IT’s >>>>> Standard Rinse & Repeat Playbook (Ebola, Swine Flu) FEAR PORN Propaganda Machinery

eg Headline Main News – “Another Case (you mean 1 more person) diagnosed with Caronavirus in ….. (Fill In The Blank)”
Yada Yada etc
(SAY WHAT ONE MORE CASE MAKES WORLD NEWS)

C’est La Vie – As Barnum Said …….. etc

WAKE UP >>> Engage Brain … Activate “Common Sense” – read on
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All Hype & Balloney – Heres some 1st Feb >>> FACTS – From The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/world/asia/china-coronavirus-contain.html
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How Bad Will the Coronavirus Outbreak Get?
Here Are 6 Key Factors
By Knvul Sheikh, Derek Watkins, Jin Wu and Mika GröndahlUpdated >>>> Feb. 1, 2020

As the coronavirus outbreak continues to spread across China, a flurry of early research is drawing
>>>> a clearer picture of how the pathogen behaves

1. How contagious is the virus?
It seems …..moderately infectious,…. similar to SARS. (YAWN)

2. How deadly is the virus?
It’s hard to know yet. But the fatality rate is probably …..less than 3 percent, >>> much less than SARS. (YAWN)

3. How long does it take to show symptoms?
Possibly between 2 to 14 days, allowing the illness to go undetected.
4. How much have infected people traveled?
The virus spread quickly because it started in a transportation hub.
5. How effective will the response be?
The W.H.O. has praised China’s efforts, but critics fear lockdown measures may not be enough.
6. How long will it take to develop a vaccine?
A vaccine is still a year away — at minimum.

While the virus is a serious public health concern,…… the risk to most people outside China …..remains very low,(YAWN)
…….and seasonal flu is a more immediate threat. (DOUBLE YAWN)

How contagious is the virus?
It seems ….. moderately infectious, … similar to SARS. (YAWN)

The scale of an outbreak depends on how quickly and easily a virus is transmitted from person to person. While research has just begun, scientists have estimated that each person with the new coronavirus could infect somewhere between 1.5 and 3.5 people without effective containment measures.

That would make the virus roughly as contagious as SARS, …….another coronavirus that circulated in China in 2003
and was contained after
it sickened >>>> JUST 8,098 people and >>>>> killed (ONLY) 774. (REALLY BIG YAWN)
If each person infected with the new coronavirus infects two to three others, that ……may be enough to sustain… an outbreak (YAWN)

How deadly is the virus?

It’s hard to know yet. But the fatality rate is
probably less than 3 percent, >>>> much less than SARS.

“There’s still a lot of uncertainty about what this virus is like and what it is doing,” said Dr. Allison McGeer, an infectious disease specialist at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, who was at the frontlines of the Canadian response to SARS.

Early indications suggest the fatality rate for this virus is >>>> considerably less >>>>>than another coronavirus, MERS, which kills about…….. one in three people …..who become infected,

and SARS, which kills …….. about one in 10.
All of the diseases appear to latch on to proteins on the surface of lung cells,
- but MERS and SARS ……seem to be more destructive to lung tissue.

(ABOVE KILLED 1 In 3 & 1 in 10 !!!)

HERE COME DE REALLY BIG BIG YAWNS

As of Jan. 31, fewer than >>>>> 1 in 40
>>>> of the people with confirmed infections had died.

AND >>> Many of those who died were….. older men….. with underlying health problems.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/world/asia/china-coronavirus-contain.html