Deny it if you will but science will do what science will do. China, where the epidemic began, and as an authoritarian nation, mandated the strictest control shutting down so many public venues and testing everyone by force if necessary has today reported cases going down. It is the only nation to report that tells us something about effective control. The US is NOT in that category by a long shot. Today Republican senator Ted Cruz who attended the uber conservative CPAC Corona denial conference where one came down with the disease, is now in 14 day quarantine. There is one more Republican in the House that attended the same conference now is in quarantine. There will be more of that I am sure.
The thing that makes this different from the ordinary flu is that there is no vaccine. It takes at least a year or more to develop one. People here who contract the flu often have not gotten the vaccine. In 1917 the flu outbreak took world wide 100 million deaths and 675, 000 here in the US. My grandmother nearly died of it. There was no vaccine.
The Corona virus is new so no one has immunity. Had a discussion with a veterinarian about it. He said at some point everyone will get it but on a genetic front it is easier to map the virus's DNA now and that is furiously being done so maybe a vaccine can expeditiously happen but we must first know who has it by testing and that here rolled out with big problems due to incompetent leadership such as the unfit for office Trump and his minions who are in denial mode so the stock market can recover and Trump be reelected. So the testing kits had to be recalled. Now many more are going out but who and how many get tested remains a sticking point.
Best defense now is hand washing and keeping hands away from one's face, eyes, mouth, nose and even ears and stay tuned to those news outlets which do not deny anything. Richard Engel had a documentary he reported on last night. You can Google it if you like. It is excellent. As one who suffered the effects of a virus it is no joke and the vaccine for polio took years to develop. It first came out with a glitch that gave paralytic polio to people who were experimented on which is why a vaccine is so difficult to create. It must be thoroughly tested. Deny this new virus at your and everyone's peril.
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