Friday FEB 7 Update (page 7): Uncle intel from the Chinese exchange student at my bus stop

Thanks OP. I'm just a cynical old bastard, but the logistics of this whole thing seem to be suggesting to me that this is an attack on China and the World by some other state.

Cui bono?

I'm sorry you are so far away from your grandson. I don't have any children, but the worrying must be intense sometimes. Hang in there, nutmeg.

My two roommates - boy and girl, mid-20s - are both sick, with coughing and sore throat and whatnot. Unfortunately, thanks to sharing an apartment with me, they are probably thinking the worst...

The girl is worried because the guy works at a busy restaurant by the campus, and large groups of Chinese (or, Asian looking) kids often frequent his establishment.

I'm not sick yet, and I obviously hope this is just them getting the regular old cold!

Good info. Keep reporting what he tells you.

So a chinese exchange student is your uncle.. right, I have a bridge to sell you.

HOW much worse, I wonder.

Equivalent of Soviet Gov. lying about how serious Chernobyl was..
That’s my guess.

I don't expect this thread to get pinned, this is just what the Chinese exchange student who I talk to at the bus stop told me.

Yesterday, when it was just two cities in quarantine, he said, "Yes yes, it's very very bad." He has, obviously, been keeping in touch with his family.

He explained to me that Wuhon -- as big as LA or NYC population-wise -- was also a major transportation hub in China. He tried to explain how if you lived in one part of China and wanted to travel to another, you basically have to pass to Wuhon. And he explained how tomorrow (today, Saturday) was the beginning of the Chinese new year.

I haven't read any news stories saying what a huge transportation hub Wuhan is, and how during the incubation period, God only knows how many people contracted the virus and went on their merry way....aren't they saying there's a 13-day incubation period you can exhibit no symptoms yet still be highly contagious?

Anyway, flash forward to day.

This morning, we said hello, and resumed talking about the situation in China. He said his relatives say this is extremely serious, and presumably much much worse than the CCP is reporting. So he might be a college age kid, and a Chinese national, but he's no dummy. Not by a longshot.

I thanked him for his information about Wuhan being the equivalent of Grand Central Station, and in return hipped him to the information (in the West) that Wuhan has a major bio-pathogenic-(warfare)-research facility in the city.

The student took this information in with all appropriate seriousness, and told me he would attempt to verify this later, and inform his family if true.

He said the university already said they are extending his student visa, so as not to return to China when he was expecting to. As far as I know, this has not been reported in the news, if in fact it is true. (If it is, I think it's good public health policy IMO!)

Anyway, here's my tiny contribution to you GLP sleuths.

Good Luck People

I'm sorry you are so far away from your grandson. I don't have any children, but the worrying must be intense sometimes. Hang in there, nutmeg.

My two roommates - boy and girl, mid-20s - are both sick, with coughing and sore throat and whatnot. Unfortunately, thanks to sharing an apartment with me, they are probably thinking the worst...

The girl is worried because the guy works at a busy restaurant by the campus, and large groups of Chinese (or, Asian looking) kids often frequent his establishment.

I'm not sick yet, and I obviously hope this is just them getting the regular old cold!

It's really the least of his concerns, I think. He seemed really worried about his family! He said they are safe, but.... I mean, I would still worry too.

The exchange visa thing was just something he told me, and I was just mentioning it here on GLP to provide some, shall we say, quantum entanglement.

You never know what becomes relevant!

I can verify that Wuhan is indeed a major transport hub. I've been there. It's not a nice place, a valley city between mountains that is always polluted because the pollution can't escape. But China's fastest rail line runs from there - from Guangzhou to Changsha to Wuhan and on.

You just can't quarantine a city that size. People got out. It's spreading.

Still, it's not The Stand, not unless this thing mutates a few more times for the worse (remember, it can also mutate to become more benign). The most likely outcome is a few million deaths and the major impact on the world economy that it will have.

OP that was a dodge to a great point.

.bsflag.

They are hyping this way to hard for it to be anything.

Already been someone cured of the virus. It has a 3% mortality rate. just like any flu.

Keep people fearing of the next big thing. Same ol' playbook.

Which in theory could be even a worse case scenario.I think if China found out it was a country ,that nukes would fly.Not that they give a shit about their populous,but this very well might cripple their economy.

I don't expect this thread to get pinned,

So a chinese exchange student is your uncle.. right, I have a bridge to sell you.

I don't expect this thread to get pinned, this is just what the Chinese exchange student who I talk to at the bus stop told me.

Yesterday, when it was just two cities in quarantine, he said, "Yes yes, it's very very bad." He has, obviously, been keeping in touch with his family.

He explained to me that Wuhon -- as big as LA or NYC population-wise -- was also a major transportation hub in China. He tried to explain how if you lived in one part of China and wanted to travel to another, you basically have to pass to Wuhon. And he explained how tomorrow (today, Saturday) was the beginning of the Chinese new year.

I haven't read any news stories saying what a huge transportation hub Wuhan is, and how during the incubation period, God only knows how many people contracted the virus and went on their merry way....aren't they saying there's a 13-day incubation period you can exhibit no symptoms yet still be highly contagious?

Anyway, flash forward to day.

This morning, we said hello, and resumed talking about the situation in China. He said his relatives say this is extremely serious, and presumably much much worse than the CCP is reporting. So he might be a college age kid, and a Chinese national, but he's no dummy. Not by a longshot.

I thanked him for his information about Wuhan being the equivalent of Grand Central Station, and in return hipped him to the information (in the West) that Wuhan has a major bio-pathogenic-(warfare)-research facility in the city.

The student took this information in with all appropriate seriousness, and told me he would attempt to verify this later, and inform his family if true.

He said the university already said they are extending his student visa, so as not to return to China when he was expecting to. As far as I know, this has not been reported in the news, if in fact it is true. (If it is, I think it's good public health policy IMO!)

Anyway, here's my tiny contribution to you GLP sleuths.

Good Luck People

yawn!!!! , nothing is going to happen

yawn!!!! , nothing is going to happen