>>8170975 (LB)
>Anyone know what’s really going down? We know media lies and so do governments.
What's really going on is what would be the most logical:
The Chinese got hit by SARS pretty bad. They don't want to get cough off-guard again. So they went out into their own backyard and collected a bunch of wild bats (riddled with countless coronavirus variation) to gather samples to study and hopefully develop vaccines for when they inevitably get hit again. But they were incompetent with their containment, and someone got infected with one of the viruses they meant to study. The Chicoms can't admit it for fear of their own people taring them apart. So they were slow to acknowledge the problem.. which made everything much worse… and now they have to downplay the real scale of the epidemic.
There is no containing it at this point. But, ultimately, it's just a bad chest cold. For 90% of the population, you've had hangovers worse than this. But for elderly people, those with weakened immune systems, and a few with genetic bad-luck it is potentially life threatening. This sort of thing, viruses hopping from animals to humans, has happened countless time throughout human history (this is the third time, that we know if, in just the last 20 years). It's only now that we have the tech to understand what's happening when a bad bug leads to an uptick in elderly pneumonia patients. We used to just blame it on witches or comets or whatever. It's not the apocalypse.
If the average life expectancy is 70 then you'd expect 1/70th of the population to die off every year. That happens to be pretty close to what we expect to see from this virus. Not a coincidence. The only thing different is that we now have the ability to understand what's happening, give it a name, and have 24hour news get everyone wound up about it.