I must note that China has political and economic power that comes with enemies. The world is beset by malignant actors, and for most of a century that malevolence has included biological pathogens. While it is impossible to prove any particular provenance of some pathogen China has suffered, it is undeniable that the present circumstances in China involving not only the Kung Flu, but bird flu and swine flu, as well as the constant threat of a resurgence of plague, and now the arrival of a swarm of locusts on it's border, have generated much speculation that some of that pathogenicity results from malice, and not natural sources.
In addition to malice, there's also speculation that this most recent pathogen resulted from carelessness or incompetence at a biomed research facility near Wuhan. Again, impossible to prove or disprove at the moment, so I'm not drawing any conclusions, but it does seem plausible.
I have another article on a different topic that involves China in tomorrow's post. I don't go looking for articles about China, but I was just thinking this morning that it's surprising to realize how often China comes up in this series. In STEM, it seems that all roads lead to China.
In regards to an 'own goal' by China on the Wuhan epidemic, I have read several papers that all have found animal trials of SARS vaccines are disastrous. The vaccines for virii with the SARS spike protein all cause deadly pneumonias in subjects when the subjects are challenged with the infection.
China nonetheless human trialed SARS vaccines. Unbelievable, but they said they did themselves. If they vaccinated a lot of people in Hubei Province, it really explains well why China is suffering such terrible pathogenicity, but no other country in the world is.
I must note that China has political and economic power that comes with enemies. The world is beset by malignant actors, and for most of a century that malevolence has included biological pathogens. While it is impossible to prove any particular provenance of some pathogen China has suffered, it is undeniable that the present circumstances in China involving not only the Kung Flu, but bird flu and swine flu, as well as the constant threat of a resurgence of plague, and now the arrival of a swarm of locusts on it's border, have generated much speculation that some of that pathogenicity results from malice, and not natural sources.
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Good point. Thanks for the reply!
In addition to malice, there's also speculation that this most recent pathogen resulted from carelessness or incompetence at a biomed research facility near Wuhan. Again, impossible to prove or disprove at the moment, so I'm not drawing any conclusions, but it does seem plausible.
I have another article on a different topic that involves China in tomorrow's post. I don't go looking for articles about China, but I was just thinking this morning that it's surprising to realize how often China comes up in this series. In STEM, it seems that all roads lead to China.
In regards to an 'own goal' by China on the Wuhan epidemic, I have read several papers that all have found animal trials of SARS vaccines are disastrous. The vaccines for virii with the SARS spike protein all cause deadly pneumonias in subjects when the subjects are challenged with the infection.
China nonetheless human trialed SARS vaccines. Unbelievable, but they said they did themselves. If they vaccinated a lot of people in Hubei Province, it really explains well why China is suffering such terrible pathogenicity, but no other country in the world is.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn4417-china-to-give-first-sars-vaccine-to-people/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/china-to-test-risky-sars-vaccine/
https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-08/06/content_466753.htm