I was being facetious about Italy. Maybe western humor is different. And not confused here...the spread of the virus is proportionally directly related to the deathrate, obviously. And apparently, so if asians have more ACE2 receptors than other races, as was written in some scientific paper I read but don't have at my fingertips, was that caused by inbreeding too ? Give me a link that says inbreeding produces more ACE2 receptors, or more appropriate , is a factor in coronavirus deathrates. And to ask again, why does Saudi Arabia only have 20 something cases...cause you linked the nytimes article about inbreeding being a problem in SA. I don't think you can make the leap...I think it's just your opinion w/o being able to validate it with facts. In my opinion...inbreeding doesn't affect the coronavirus except possibly in isolated cases that won't make the slightest difference in outcome. Whereas old age and smoking have been demonstrated to be a large risk factor in contagiousness and death resulting from it.

I never said there is a co-relation between ACE2 receptors and inbreeding. I said

Death rate is due to increased ACE2 receptors due to smoking, pre-existing lung disease, age AND inbreeding.

Which should read as 1. increased ACE2 receptors due to smoking, 2. pre-existing lung disease, 3. age AND 4.inbreeding.

Also, quoting official numbers makes no sense as

We wont know for a year or two how many people actually died.

Another co-relation is temperature and humidity, I linked to it earlier. So lower rates in hot countries.

The American Hospital Association (AHA) conference in February reveal that US hospitals are preparing for:

• 96 million coronavirus infections
• 4.8 million hospitalizations from the infection
• 480,000 deaths in the United States

Like a flu, yes :-(

""Italy COVID-19 fact: the Corona infects older people who have previous pathologies and has a mortality rate of 42.2 % for people between 80 and 89 years."" Whoa....we saved Social Security !

Michael Osterholm ....expert in infectious disease epidemiology .... joe rogan, known disinfo agent hosts bioweapons expert ...denying coronavirus is a bioweapon. A yeah...like too obvious a disinfo plant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=396&v=E3URhJx0NSw&feature=emb_logo

The CEOs of major insurance companies, including Anthem, Cigna, Humana, and Aetna, attended a briefing at the White House today. The companies also said that there would not be surprise billing for costs associated with COVID-19, the illness caused by the new virus.

But all complications and related treatment and extra bed days will be covered from your own cash :-)

Personally i'm on the side of this scientist, strong flu and elders should care more than anyone else but Chloroquine gives great results and it's pretty cheap, far from msm fearmongers.

By the way, it is funny how some people made some weird bets :p https://www.marketwatch.com/story/bridgewater-bets-more-than-1-billion-on-global-equity-pullback-by-march-2019-11-22

"Bridgewater Associates LP has bet more than $1 billion that stock markets around the world will fall by March, said people familiar with the matter. The wager, assembled over a span of months and executed by a handful of Wall Street firms, including Goldman Sachs Group Inc. GS, -2.413% and Morgan Stanley MS, -2.025% , would pay off for the world’s biggest hedge fund if either the S&P 500 SPX, -2.813% or the Euro Stoxx 50 SX5P, 0.089% —or both—declines, some of the people said."

Anyone is free to believe what he wants of course :p

L and S types....https://www.newscientist.com/article/2236544-coronavirus-are-there-two-strains-and-is-one-more-deadly/

the bioweapon theory logic an opinion_Today in the USa you read many articles belittling the concept that the coronavirus is a bioweapon. Every msm outlet treats the idea and the author like they're crazies. Most , like this article, are an attempt at deflection of overwhelming commonsense. What other reason would they have to deflect the bioweapon narrative other than if it was acknowledged that the virus escaped from the wuhan bsl-4 lab, coupled with the obvious fact that the USa has far more bioweapon labs and ongoing research and China was just responding to that threat, the USa could be held equally at fault for what's surely to become one of the biggest mass murders in history. The predominant reason these propagandist use is that the virus has many flaws that a real bioweapon would never have. It's kills only old people, for example, is one of their main arguments. However, after reading many comment sections that demonstrate most americans have low double digit IQ's, one obvious flaw in their argument is no one has ever stated it was a perfected bioweapon. Obviously when these labs are working on these frankensteinian creations, they create many iterations along their trail. This was just one that happened to escape at some point in the process. Thank god, it wasn't a perfected weapon, or we would be back in the stone age within months. But until enough people come to the conclusion that the nature of the virus, or it's unique genetic fingerprint distinguishing it from other coronaviruses, coupled with it's origin location, makes it far more likely to be man made than nature made, it will happen again. And the more times it happens, the more likely the next time it will be a perfected weapon. And then we can all kiss our arses goodbye. https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2020/03/iran-and-russian-media-push-bioweapon-conspiracies-amid-covid19-outbreak/163669/

I think Trumpster has the virus. He was breathing heavily in his last speech. And the fuckers are still shaking hands with everyone.

https://twitter.com/zlj517

We are fucked. Chinese official blamed US army for the virus. Now I guess China will leak its own bioweapon.

Also, the fuckers in Washington are meeting for a jobs and stock market bailout package. Dont even care about expanding hospital care and testing. As a comparison, even here in India, they made 100K testing kits available. Australia has made walk-in tests available from last week (my long-term base is Sydney).

Trumpster will destroy the US with his bullshit.

@kristoferman Its not a scientific consensus - its the official govt consensus. Two separate things. Also, you cannot track a virus to figure out its origins. So everyone is guessing at this point anyway. Some of us believe there is a greater probability of a bioweapon.