Exactly. I'm in the media business and make a living beating them to the punch. I break huge stories long before they do consistently. I also understand just how crazy rumors can get in a disaster or when information is limited, even media buys into this at times. There is always a hard to find middle ground in those situations.
I was just posting it for laughs since this thread get more depressing by the day.
I agree the press release was deficient. I don't agree that the major media -- as a collective -- would've fallen asleep on low-hanging fruit like "confirmed 16th-20th U.S. cases". That kind of stuff gets spoon-fed to them ASAP -- they don't have to do Lee-Zurik-type investigative journalism.
Well, there is physical evidence on 9-11 and Kennedy’s assassination. Remember the plan that was “shot down” after taking from New York (I think). People that investigated it came out afterwards (retired) and said they found residue consistent with explosives and people reported see something come up and strike the plane. In the end, who freaking really knows. I am on the road to nowhere and just enjoying the ride.I'm a flat earth, 9-11, moon landing hoax, Kennedy assassination conspiracy theorist....or something.
This is the place I most worry about now. I guess they can lock down on citizens like China has done. But Iran has even more incentive to lie and deceive than China does.
Curious, what is the more incentive?
Iran, Japan, Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong all have a hell of a fight going on. Iran and North Korea will be the two I worry about not getting information on but if travel restrictions to Japan, Hong Kong and Korea pop up then it'll have a huge ripple effect on the economy. If it isn't shut down, most flights in the US to Asia go through Tokyo, Hong Kong and Seoul making it difficult to limit the spread in the US. If those three don't get it under control like right now, then it's going to be extremely difficult. It's already well past what the WHO considers the point of containment.
Regime change. Lot of political unrest in Iran and when you start locking people up in quarantines and limit information it creates a lot of fuel for the fire.
I think China, at some point, knows that even the perception of deception will be bad for business long-term. Accordingly ... I think they will essentially come cleaner over time. In the end, they still want to protect their economic relationships with the world at large.
Assuming decent numbers, the Phillipines have no active cases right now (3 total, 2 recovered, 1 deceased). Obviously, they have to stay vigilant.
No, I'm just an idiot. I started to talk about Philippines as the only country that has seen a rapid onset and been able to stop it but lost though process mid post with a phone call.
clinicaltrials.gov
