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A Diagram Showing the Life of the Wuhan Coronavirus in Different Environments
The findings come from a pre-print article on Medrix:
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.09.20033217v2.full.pdf
Source: https://www.facebook.com/308671/posts/10102702130560494/
A Diagram Showing the Life of the Wuhan Coronavirus in Different Environments
The findings come from a pre-print article on Medrix:
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.09.20033217v2.full.pdf
Source: https://www.facebook.com/308671/posts/10102702130560494/
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Hong Kong Experts: Wuhan Coronavirus originated from China is an "outcome of Chinese bad habits";
Many Countries Unprepared Due to WHO's Slow Response
The naming of the novel coronavirus has stirred up disputes, as China opposed the insertion of "Wuhan" despite that it is the origin of the virus.
Professor Yuen Kwok-yung, a SARS expert and microbiologist at the University of Hong Kong, and honorary assistant professor, Lung chun-bong contributed an article to Ming Pao on March 18. They wrote that using Wuhan coronavirus or Wuhan pneumonia in daily communication and media coverage is for the sake of mass communication. The name is easier for the public to understand, compared to the formal term adopted in scientific debates or academic discussions.
Yuen and Lung expressed that during the 2013 SARS outbreak, coronavirus was found in civet cat, leading to an outright ban of game meat trading in China; however, 17 years later, the game meat market is flourishing in China. In other words, China seemed to have forgotten the hard lesson of SARS epidemic. Yuen and Lung criticized the behavior allowing fresh game meat to become food delicacy in modern cities as eye-popping.
The article pointed out directly that the South China seafood wholesale market in Wuhan was the origin of the coronavirus. The virus was spread through cross-infection and mutated from its natural host to an intermediate host and to human being, eventually causing human-to-human infection.
The Wuhan Coronavirus was described in the article as an "outcome of Chinese bad habits" which include the "indiscriminate hunt of wild animals, inhuman treatment of animals, and lack of respect for life". The article concluded that should such culture remain, SARS 3.0 would certainly breakout in some ten years later.
In response to China's statement that the virus was originated in the United States, the article criticized such statement as "unsubstantiated", "self-deceiving" and should be stopped to avoid making fool of themselves.
The article also criticized "the World Health Organization for being slow in its decision to declare a pandemic of COVID-19". As a result, many countries are left insufficiently prepared in anti-epidemic measures vulnerable for the disease. For the time being only Singapore, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan are better guarded for virus attack.
[Editor's note: In the evening of March 18, Mingpao said Yuen and Lung withdrew their article from the newspaper and that Yuen said that scientists should not get involved with politics. See Stand News Report.]
Sources: Ming Pao; Stand News
#Mar18 #WuhanPneumonia #WHO #China #CoronavirusPandemic #GameMeatDelicacy
Hong Kong Experts: Wuhan Coronavirus originated from China is an "outcome of Chinese bad habits";
Many Countries Unprepared Due to WHO's Slow Response
The naming of the novel coronavirus has stirred up disputes, as China opposed the insertion of "Wuhan" despite that it is the origin of the virus.
Professor Yuen Kwok-yung, a SARS expert and microbiologist at the University of Hong Kong, and honorary assistant professor, Lung chun-bong contributed an article to Ming Pao on March 18. They wrote that using Wuhan coronavirus or Wuhan pneumonia in daily communication and media coverage is for the sake of mass communication. The name is easier for the public to understand, compared to the formal term adopted in scientific debates or academic discussions.
Yuen and Lung expressed that during the 2013 SARS outbreak, coronavirus was found in civet cat, leading to an outright ban of game meat trading in China; however, 17 years later, the game meat market is flourishing in China. In other words, China seemed to have forgotten the hard lesson of SARS epidemic. Yuen and Lung criticized the behavior allowing fresh game meat to become food delicacy in modern cities as eye-popping.
The article pointed out directly that the South China seafood wholesale market in Wuhan was the origin of the coronavirus. The virus was spread through cross-infection and mutated from its natural host to an intermediate host and to human being, eventually causing human-to-human infection.
The Wuhan Coronavirus was described in the article as an "outcome of Chinese bad habits" which include the "indiscriminate hunt of wild animals, inhuman treatment of animals, and lack of respect for life". The article concluded that should such culture remain, SARS 3.0 would certainly breakout in some ten years later.
In response to China's statement that the virus was originated in the United States, the article criticized such statement as "unsubstantiated", "self-deceiving" and should be stopped to avoid making fool of themselves.
The article also criticized "the World Health Organization for being slow in its decision to declare a pandemic of COVID-19". As a result, many countries are left insufficiently prepared in anti-epidemic measures vulnerable for the disease. For the time being only Singapore, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan are better guarded for virus attack.
[Editor's note: In the evening of March 18, Mingpao said Yuen and Lung withdrew their article from the newspaper and that Yuen said that scientists should not get involved with politics. See Stand News Report.]
Sources: Ming Pao; Stand News
#Mar18 #WuhanPneumonia #WHO #China #CoronavirusPandemic #GameMeatDelicacy
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From Ebola Virus to "CCP Virus"
In reality as well as theory one should be politically correct. Expressions such as "people of color" might propagate stereotypes, just as racial bias still linger in judiciary in multicultural states (Bielen et al. 2019).
Certainly, one can reword "Wuhan Pneumonia" to avoid China's stark accusation of 'racism' in the terminology; however, this would be serving the 'political correctness' set by the Communist Part of China, for that Chinese government has been changing its narrative of what it once called the "Wuhan pneumomia". In the revised narrative put forward by the Chinese Communist Party in 2020, the origin of COVID-19 is no longer Wuhan in China, the first epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, but the U.S. or perhaps Italy. Although China's state media China Daily had used the term "Wuhan pneumonia" in December 2019, Chinese government now condemns the world (in particular, the U.S.) for using the 'racist' term.
Considering "Spanish flu", "Ebola virus", "Hong Kong flu", "German measles", "Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS)" and "Japanese encephalitis", these are precedent examples of naming a disease after a place or site of its first outbreak. While more and more people including U.S. president Donald Trump called COVID-19 a "CCP virus", let us not forget what Prof. Ho-Fung Hung of Johns Hopkins University reminds us that criticizing the Chinese government should not be obscured as a racism.
When people around the world are combating this coronavirus, please do not forget every loss of life that has not been counted in reality but took place in the multiverse that the Chinese government could not cover up. We cannot time travel to undo the past, but we shall always remember the truths to avoid making more mistakes in the future.
Please leave behind your lament and together we will strive for a better future and pursue happiness for the human race. Hongkongers will continue to be the whistleblower to uncover CCP's doing and China authoritarianism, the root cause of this coronavirus pandemic.
#CCPVirus #CoronavirusPandemic
From Ebola Virus to "CCP Virus"
In reality as well as theory one should be politically correct. Expressions such as "people of color" might propagate stereotypes, just as racial bias still linger in judiciary in multicultural states (Bielen et al. 2019).
Certainly, one can reword "Wuhan Pneumonia" to avoid China's stark accusation of 'racism' in the terminology; however, this would be serving the 'political correctness' set by the Communist Part of China, for that Chinese government has been changing its narrative of what it once called the "Wuhan pneumomia". In the revised narrative put forward by the Chinese Communist Party in 2020, the origin of COVID-19 is no longer Wuhan in China, the first epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, but the U.S. or perhaps Italy. Although China's state media China Daily had used the term "Wuhan pneumonia" in December 2019, Chinese government now condemns the world (in particular, the U.S.) for using the 'racist' term.
Considering "Spanish flu", "Ebola virus", "Hong Kong flu", "German measles", "Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS)" and "Japanese encephalitis", these are precedent examples of naming a disease after a place or site of its first outbreak. While more and more people including U.S. president Donald Trump called COVID-19 a "CCP virus", let us not forget what Prof. Ho-Fung Hung of Johns Hopkins University reminds us that criticizing the Chinese government should not be obscured as a racism.
When people around the world are combating this coronavirus, please do not forget every loss of life that has not been counted in reality but took place in the multiverse that the Chinese government could not cover up. We cannot time travel to undo the past, but we shall always remember the truths to avoid making more mistakes in the future.
Please leave behind your lament and together we will strive for a better future and pursue happiness for the human race. Hongkongers will continue to be the whistleblower to uncover CCP's doing and China authoritarianism, the root cause of this coronavirus pandemic.
#CCPVirus #CoronavirusPandemic
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Taiwan Sets Example of Global Solidarity: To ship Australia 3 tons of fabric to make face masks
//Taiwan and Australia have reached an agreement in which the two countries will exchange raw materials desperately needed to battle the Wuhan coronavirus announced the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) on March 30.
Taiwan will offer Australia 3 metric tons of non-woven fabric to produce surgical masks once Taiwan has reached sufficient domestic production capacity...
Australia has pledged to provide Taiwan with 1 million liters of alcohol which can be used to produce 4.2 million 300 milliliter bottles containing 75 percent alcohol to be used as a disinfectant.//
Source: Taiwan News #Mar31
#CoronavirusPandemic #FaceMasks
Taiwan Sets Example of Global Solidarity: To ship Australia 3 tons of fabric to make face masks
//Taiwan and Australia have reached an agreement in which the two countries will exchange raw materials desperately needed to battle the Wuhan coronavirus announced the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) on March 30.
Taiwan will offer Australia 3 metric tons of non-woven fabric to produce surgical masks once Taiwan has reached sufficient domestic production capacity...
Australia has pledged to provide Taiwan with 1 million liters of alcohol which can be used to produce 4.2 million 300 milliliter bottles containing 75 percent alcohol to be used as a disinfectant.//
Source: Taiwan News #Mar31
#CoronavirusPandemic #FaceMasks
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Swedish Former Representative to European Parliament: China Should Apologize to the World for Coronavirus
In an opinion article published by a Swedish newspaper on 19
March, 2020, Gunnar Hökmark, Chairman of Stockholm Free World Forum and Former member of the European parliament, asks the Chinese Communist Party government and its leader to apologize to the world for withholding information of the coronavirus and "using its economic power, systematically threatens democratic countries in order to destabilize and silence criticism".
From China's imprisonment of Swedish citizen Gui Minhai (bookseller in Hong Kong) to Chinese tourists' behaviour, Hökmark wrote that:
"The aggressive Chinese attacks on Sweden for our handling of the Coronavirus should be seen against the fact that the Chinese Communist Party wants to escape all kind of responsibility for the spread of the epidemic.
Lousy animal husbandry and poor food standards, along with fear of the dictatorship and its culture of silence, are the main reasons why the world is presently wrestling with a terrible global pandemic. Its background lies in the inability of a totalitarian system to take people's perceptions, security and life into account. It is not Sweden or Europe that is the problem in all this. It's China.
And it is China that, using its economic power, systematically threatens democratic countries in order to destabilize and silence criticism.
On Radio Sweden, the Chinese propaganda attack was incomprehensibly described as something very sharp and because of that worth listening to. They neglected that this is how the Communist regime for a long time has acted against Sweden, among other democracies.
We saw the same pattern of denials and false accusations when Iran shot down the Ukrainian passenger plane and when Russian air defense units in Ukraine shot down the airplane MH17."
Source: Expressen, (19-Mar)
https://www.expressen.se/debatt/china-should-apologize-to-the-world-for-corona/
Independent Journalist Condemns China’s misinformation and manipulation of data, calling the pandemic a “Jin-ping Coronavirus”
https://publielectoral.lat/guardiansofhongkong/19336
#Sweden #ChinesePropaganda #CCP #SharpPower #Censorship
Swedish Former Representative to European Parliament: China Should Apologize to the World for Coronavirus
In an opinion article published by a Swedish newspaper on 19
March, 2020, Gunnar Hökmark, Chairman of Stockholm Free World Forum and Former member of the European parliament, asks the Chinese Communist Party government and its leader to apologize to the world for withholding information of the coronavirus and "using its economic power, systematically threatens democratic countries in order to destabilize and silence criticism".
From China's imprisonment of Swedish citizen Gui Minhai (bookseller in Hong Kong) to Chinese tourists' behaviour, Hökmark wrote that:
"The aggressive Chinese attacks on Sweden for our handling of the Coronavirus should be seen against the fact that the Chinese Communist Party wants to escape all kind of responsibility for the spread of the epidemic.
Lousy animal husbandry and poor food standards, along with fear of the dictatorship and its culture of silence, are the main reasons why the world is presently wrestling with a terrible global pandemic. Its background lies in the inability of a totalitarian system to take people's perceptions, security and life into account. It is not Sweden or Europe that is the problem in all this. It's China.
And it is China that, using its economic power, systematically threatens democratic countries in order to destabilize and silence criticism.
On Radio Sweden, the Chinese propaganda attack was incomprehensibly described as something very sharp and because of that worth listening to. They neglected that this is how the Communist regime for a long time has acted against Sweden, among other democracies.
We saw the same pattern of denials and false accusations when Iran shot down the Ukrainian passenger plane and when Russian air defense units in Ukraine shot down the airplane MH17."
Source: Expressen, (19-Mar)
https://www.expressen.se/debatt/china-should-apologize-to-the-world-for-corona/
Independent Journalist Condemns China’s misinformation and manipulation of data, calling the pandemic a “Jin-ping Coronavirus”
https://publielectoral.lat/guardiansofhongkong/19336
#Sweden #ChinesePropaganda #CCP #SharpPower #Censorship
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OPINION: China should apologize to the world for corona
China's leaders should apologize now. Apologize to the world for epidemics coming from China because of the dictatorship's failure to address food safety, animal standards, and because its repression of truth and the freedom of its own citizens, writes Gunnar…
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Thermometer Only Gives Reading Below 37°C, Thai Police Arrest Chinese Smugglers of Fake Thermometer and COVID19 Test Kits
A man in Thailand discovered that the thermometer he recently bought always gives a reading below 37 degrees celsius.
2 Chinese men have been arrested in Bangkok for smuggling fake Covid-19 test kits into Thailand. 45,000 fake Covid-19 test kits, 350,000 medical masks, and 1,200 infrared thermometers were seized. The evidence was valued at 33,750,000 baht.
According to the Thai FDA, all products claiming to be Covid-19 test kits online at the moment are fake.
Source: Stand News; Thaiger #Apr11 #Thailand
Thermometer Only Gives Reading Below 37°C, Thai Police Arrest Chinese Smugglers of Fake Thermometer and COVID19 Test Kits
A man in Thailand discovered that the thermometer he recently bought always gives a reading below 37 degrees celsius.
2 Chinese men have been arrested in Bangkok for smuggling fake Covid-19 test kits into Thailand. 45,000 fake Covid-19 test kits, 350,000 medical masks, and 1,200 infrared thermometers were seized. The evidence was valued at 33,750,000 baht.
According to the Thai FDA, all products claiming to be Covid-19 test kits online at the moment are fake.
Source: Stand News; Thaiger #Apr11 #Thailand
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"They Were Us": New York Times Frontpage Names Nearly 100,000 Deceased Patients of Coronavirus Outbreak
On the front page of The New York Times on May 24, 2020, nearly 100,000 names of those who died of COVID-19 in the United States were printed as a commemoration.
As of May 24, over 5.2 million cases of coronavitus are confirmed around the world.
Source: New York Times #May24 #US #CoronavirusPandemic
"They Were Us": New York Times Frontpage Names Nearly 100,000 Deceased Patients of Coronavirus Outbreak
On the front page of The New York Times on May 24, 2020, nearly 100,000 names of those who died of COVID-19 in the United States were printed as a commemoration.
As of May 24, over 5.2 million cases of coronavitus are confirmed around the world.
Source: New York Times #May24 #US #CoronavirusPandemic
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Pro-Beijing Lawmaker Demands to Remove the Image of U.S. Staute of Liberty from Hong Kong Asia Expo
The Asia World-Expo (AWE), Hong Kong's largest convention and exhibition center, was to be transformed into a China-modeled "cabin hospital" to treat COVID-19 patients. Pro-Beijing lawmaker Elizabeth Quat posted her social network that she received 'complains' of a photo of the U.S. "Statue of Liberty" found in AWE. She recommended the Hospital Authority (HA) to remove it.
Source: Stand News #Aug2
#ElizabethQuat
#StatueofLiberty
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Pro-Beijing Lawmaker Demands to Remove the Image of U.S. Staute of Liberty from Hong Kong Asia Expo
The Asia World-Expo (AWE), Hong Kong's largest convention and exhibition center, was to be transformed into a China-modeled "cabin hospital" to treat COVID-19 patients. Pro-Beijing lawmaker Elizabeth Quat posted her social network that she received 'complains' of a photo of the U.S. "Statue of Liberty" found in AWE. She recommended the Hospital Authority (HA) to remove it.
Source: Stand News #Aug2
#ElizabethQuat
#StatueofLiberty