Humble Scribe Recovering - Four Winners to Report - and Opinion: China Made Covid 19

Nice to have near when people...and governments start to panic.

Life gets in the way of poker and blogging sometimes. Faldo had to have prostate cancer surgery as it was Stage 2 as soon as it was discovered.
Of course, this type of surgery is currently considered 'optional' surgery in this current crisis.
I heard an elderly lady's open heart surgery was deemed elective by the State of Washington Medical Board. So her heart repair has to wait.
Seriously??  More on this later.

Now for the winners I have been forced to ignore for too long:
1st - Rjmech - 3rd of the year and 46th all time!
2nd - T3chlady
3rd - Jb1974x
4th - Absea98
Bubble - CometgirlXO

1st - LittleRedElf - 1st of the year and 53rd of all time!
2nd - GMOgolf
3rd - Tomservo2
Bubble - Douge2

1st - GMOgolf - 1st of the year and 7th all time!
2nd - Douge2
3rd - Rjmech
4th - KingUnix
5th - Absea98
Bubble - CometGirlXO

1st - T3chlady - 1st of the year and 16th all time!
2nd - Douge2
3rd - CometGirlXO
4th - Mikeniks - Faldo (gift - thank you)
Bubble - Derf-63

The standings are updated on the right side of the blog!

Once Faldo speaks, everyone else can shut up. Now for Faldo's opinion in this Covid 19 virus:

Faldo's theory is that the Chinese were making a biological weapon that would kill their enemies and it would look like a severe flu strain. They did not have it perfected and they did not quite have an antidote ready for their citizens, but several strains of their virus escaped into the world.  How you ask?

The story is that it was poor food handling of meat by peasants that created this strain of virus that looks a lot like influenza. Ponder that for a minute. Usually food bacteria's or viruses from them create cramps, diarrhea vomiting as the body tries to expel the bad food. Then fever and flu like symptoms may develop

Faldo thinks it is a half truth. Faldo thinks it is quite possible that animals were used to test the virus. As those animals died or were discarded, peasants needing food handled and ate those animals. Whether they collected them from the garbage or some low life sold them as fresh doesn't really matter.

With the built in two or 3 week delay this virus seems to have before any symptoms appear (designed perhaps?) made the meat seem safe enough and the stealing or selling continued.

The reaction of the Chinese government to the release of this information of how and where the virus started and was mutated has changed a few times and still makes no sense. Their defensive posture also suggests cover up.

The reaction of the world - including the United States - was total panic - for just a new flu virus that just showed up and killed a few old/sick  people. Think back to the start of this! We were being told this was going to get huge when the numbers at the time did not support that conclusion. What did the governments of the world already know - and why are they still not telling us the truth about it?

Some liberal American citizen newswoman (is there any kind that would make these statements pretending to be questions of President Trump?) told Trump that she thought he was being a racist stating the virus came from China. Trump reiterated, "This virus comes from China" It's not racist at all. It comes from China."

Faldo read the body language and facial expressions of the people standing behind the President and the President himself as really saying "Made in China".

Faldo can't be proven wrong - which is nice - because it could never be told that China did that. The backlash by most of the world financially would be devastating to China. China would have to go to war to feed their people. The world leaders know this, so they will hide the truth from the world.

The world was poisoned by China. The world leaders were informed and all of a sudden some flu bug that killed 5 old people in Seattle was all over the news and covered wall to wall! How did that happen? Why did that happen?

Swine flu infected between 43 and 89 million people, depending on what you read and killed 13,000.
Influenza - on average - kills 36,000 in the United States every year.
Covid 19 as of this writing - killed 10,000 world wide and 187 in the USA.

Faldo is not saying this virus is not a big deal. Faldo is saying for the response by world governments to the cases and deaths so far, we are not being told the truth. Of course we almost never are.