First death outside of China just reported in the Philippines. It's a Chinese man in his 40s. Countries that didn't closed up immediately like the Philippines would likely see a surge in the coming weeks. I saw a video shared in social media of a "Chinese-looking" man who fainted on a street in Manila, if that guy's really infected, just imagine how many he has already spread the virus to...
I didn't see that The Philippines treated things much different than any other country. Probably they were even more restrictive than most.
I will say that the 'social media' content which bombards the people here in The Philippines (and unfortunately _not_ against their will) is of the most idiotic type. Full of totally anti-scientific bullshit, flat out lies, dramatic quasi-music, and advertisements. It's all about 'grabbing eyeballs' here and I dare say that itself will be the death of scads of people over time. I doubt with this event but rather with a bunch of others. Whether it's the West or the East who ends up in control of the country they are all going to want more minerals, cheaper pineapples, and fewer Filipinos. I really feel sad that the peeps on the ground are simply not gaining the skills necessary to protect themselves in a world full of predators.
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On the coronavirus thing, it seems that the vaccine engineering may suffer from a problem of the same basic type as did dengvaxia. That is, getting the vaccine may make individuals extra sensitive to exposures to other slightly different strains. Basically the body has an even stronger reaction to a similar strain after having battled the vaccine strain. The idea that the vaccine designers didn't recognize this with dengaxia is pretty much beyond belief even if they are not exactly the most competent of scientists. I'm not to surprised they tried it out on Filipinos anyway since there is very little protection of the peeps on the ground and a
long history of interest in controlling population in the country. The only silver lining is that people are a little more suspicious when the needles come out (which is very common for 'vitamin shots' at public schools and such) and the effect has not totally worn of yet.
Some are hinting that it may be interesting to know if Chinese in Wuhan (and other areas) may have been receiving 'experimental' vaccines against some strain of coronavirus and are looking to see if the mortality rates between native Chinese subject to Beijing's medical dictates and people in other geographic areas are roughly similar or not. I'll be monitoring it with interest myself for a couple of reasons.