Fears of a new coronavirus mutation as China puts more than 100 million on lockdown again

Chinese doctors are seeing the coronavirus manifest differently among patients in its new cluster of cases in the northeast region compared to the original outbreak in Wuhan, suggesting that the pathogen may be changing in unknown ways and complicating efforts to stamp it out.

Patients found in the northern provinces of Jilin and Heilongjiang appear to carry the virus for a longer period of time and take longer to test negative, Qiu Haibo, one of China’s top critical care doctors, told state television on Tuesday.

eddie wrote:And our government want us to send the children back to school? For what? Five weeks of a term?

Are the UK not watching the rest of the world?  

Maddog wrote:

eddie wrote:And our government want us to send the children back to school? For what? Five weeks of a term?

Are the UK not watching the rest of the world?  

Bars opened in Texas today (albeit with extreme restrictions)

Much of the rest of the world is moving on.  

eddie wrote:

Maddog wrote:

Bars opened in Texas today (albeit with extreme restrictions)

Much of the rest of the world is moving on.  

That’s what China did...and your point is?

Maddog wrote:

eddie wrote:And our government want us to send the children back to school? For what? Five weeks of a term?

Are the UK not watching the rest of the world?  

Bars opened in Texas today (albeit with extreme restrictions)

Much of the rest of the world is moving on.  

Maddog wrote:

eddie wrote:

Maddog wrote:

Bars opened in Texas today (albeit with extreme restrictions)

Much of the rest of the world is moving on.  

That’s what China did...and your point is?

I wouldn't use China as a metric to measure anything.  

They lie.  

A lot.  

Therefore much of our information about them is really speculation.  

School is back in much of Europe. Although at this point, I would just blow it off and start fresh next fall.  

eddie wrote:

Maddog wrote:

I wouldn't use China as a metric to measure anything.  

They lie.  

A lot.  

Therefore much of our information about them is really speculation.  

School is back in much of Europe. Although at this point, I would just blow it off and start fresh next fall.  

China lies. Okay. Perhaps they do.

So what do they gain from this lie?

eddie wrote:Okay so why lie about a second outbreak and mutations? Tell me their motivation for lying.

Ben Reilly wrote:

eddie wrote:Okay so why lie about a second outbreak and mutations? Tell me their motivation for lying.

Apparently, according to Maddog, they're lying about having to put 100 million people on lockdown in order to make themselves look like they're in complete control of the situation?

Nah, doesn't make any sense to me either.

Maddog wrote:

Ben Reilly wrote:

eddie wrote:Okay so why lie about a second outbreak and mutations? Tell me their motivation for lying.

Apparently, according to Maddog, they're lying about having to put 100 million people on lockdown in order to make themselves look like they're in complete control of the situation?

Nah, doesn't make any sense to me either.

They may never have taken them off of lockdown.  They could have a death toll 100 times higher than they are reporting.  

There are much better countries to use for information on this virus. Many right across the channel and far more open.

Ben Reilly wrote:

Maddog wrote:

They may never have taken them off of lockdown.  They could have a death toll 100 times higher than they are reporting.  

There are much better countries to use for information on this virus. Many right across the channel and far more open.

Except France and other European countries aren't reporting a seemingly new strain of the virus -- only China (so far).

Whether they always had those people on lockdown doesn't really matter, does it? They've admitted to a current ongoing lockdown, which doesn't make them look like they have the situation under control.

Maddog wrote:

Ben Reilly wrote:

Maddog wrote:

They may never have taken them off of lockdown.  They could have a death toll 100 times higher than they are reporting.  

There are much better countries to use for information on this virus. Many right across the channel and far more open.

Except France and other European countries aren't reporting a seemingly new strain of the virus -- only China (so far).

Whether they always had those people on lockdown doesn't really matter, does it? They've admitted to a current ongoing lockdown, which doesn't make them look like they have the situation under control.

Its China.

Enough said.  

eddie wrote:Quill, there really isn’t a need to keep calling Maddog a redneck. You’re better than that, right?

eddie wrote:Quill, there really isn’t a need to keep calling Maddog a redneck. You’re better than that, right?

eddie wrote:Quill, there really isn’t a need to keep calling Maddog a redneck. You’re better than that, right?

nicko wrote: Have no one heard of "Face", with the Chinese ? To lose "Face" with them is almost worse than Death. If you don't know what it means, Google it !