Weird conspiracy theory about Wuhan Coronavirus I just saw.

[Zolorp]

I won't link to it but wanted people to be prepared if they hear it.

The way it goes is the Chinese government developed the Wuhan Coronavirus as a biological weapon. They were testing the effectiveness on Uighur concentration camp prisoners and it accidentally got released into the general public.

The theory goes on to say it is far worse than the Chinese government lets on and that the death rate is over 70%.

Just be prepared for this showing up in the future. Since this originated in China, there will be things like this and probably worse.

[leftstreet]

1. If it'll be "showing up" everywhere, does it need to be on DU?

[Zolorp]

2. It's bogus nonsense

It'll be spread around, but people need to now ther's going to be crap like this out there.

Last I saw the death rate was lower than 3% which is close to regular flu. I have yet to see an R0 but it appears to be similar to the flu and it appears to be mostly contained with 2 cases in the US and 1 in Europe.

The same thing happens with every disease that gets reported. There were all sorts or rumors when the Ebola thing was going on and back during SARS.

If what the conspiracy theories are saying were true, it would already be too late and we should have already seen deaths in the US

[Hortensis]

9. I agree, though I assume it as a given any time something

frightens people. Pandemic out of China. I hear it's actually a humanity hating scientist out of Omaha who was kidnapped by ME terrorists, etc. Or something. May be getting my novels crossed.

[Dorian Gray]

3. Except

Wuhan is nowhere near the Xinjiang province (where the majority of the Uyughar population live.

[Zolorp]

4. Precisely.

This kind of crap is going to be all over the internet until the Wuhan Coronavirus dies out of the news.

It shows up every time some new disease shows up.

[Initech]

5. Oh Alex Jones will call any case of this a false flag.

They always do.

[Recursion]

6. Ordinary flu will kill 60,000 Americans this year

I wish people gave it half as much attention as they do the exotic disease of the week

[Luz]

7. Let me know when everyone starts dreaming of an old

black woman...or a walking dude.

[NCLefty]

8. Finally, we will be free of Trump. :p