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“One theory (observation, really) is that Asians are more susceptible. And men more than women, by about four to one. No, I don’t have any citations for that. It came across my Twitter feed and made me go hmmmm.”

If true, it would suggest that the Chinese grand poohbahs made a bio-weapon to be used against their own people to solve the gender imbalance caused by their “One Child” policy. Are you suggesting this Dame Weasel?

Where’s the SUV parking lot that caused the huge temperature rise in the sun’s atmosphere?

Can’t they get one of those spy cameras to zoom in closer and see what kind of vehicles the Sun People use?

I am not suggesting it, Mitchell, but I certainly have heard it suggested. They know the specific allele that makes Asians more susceptible, though. The male thing, I have no idea how that would work.

Well, I ‘d mentioned that in a Japan a bus driver who had never been to China came down with the Wuhan flu after driving for a group of Chinese tourists about two weeks ago.

The Japanese NHK (Think BBC) news just announced that the Tour Guide who was on that bus now has the flu.

And heeere we go!

Naugahyde?

More like chopped nuts.

Based on current observations, the incubation of the virus is usually over a week, which means in the next 4 to 10 days we will start to see the next wave of illness outside of China. And that will reveal a lot more information.

I was thinking chopped nuts or a big stack of firewood.

At least there’s no evidence the newly dead are rising and wandering around looking for a bowl of bat brain soup.

“ At least there’s no evidence the newly dead are rising and wandering around looking for a bowl of bat brain soup.”

Dammit ! No SPOILERS!

Now you’ve given away the plot to next week’s show 🙁

But, on a happier note (for most of us anyway) according to this report the U.K and the U.S. are the best prepared countries in the world for handling an epidemic

https://www.statista.com/chart/20629/ability-to-respond-to-an-epidemic-or-pandemic/

So we got that goin’ for us.

Right now I’m not entirely convinced it’s not a combination panderdemic/panicdemic.

In 2017 we lost @80,000 people in the US alone to regular old flu.

There’s a bit of a problem when media rates itself not on the quality of it’s product, but on the number of people consuming it, and ‘panic’ makes for high consumption.

Conversely I suppose, we’re at least taking it seriously. Way more seriously than we did the unquestionably deadly Ebola virus a few years back.

Thanks for posting this sweas. I can’t seem to keep up with interesting stuff showing up on the interwebs.