Hello John and Doves,
To
date, China has imposed a travel ban on 18 cities!
This is absolutely unprecedented! This affects
some 60 million people! Chinese cities have cancelled
their Lunar New Year celebrations. All of this in an effort to
contain this rapidly spreading virus. The epicenter of
this outbreak is Wuhan, China - with a population of 11
million people. (By comparison, Florida has 25 million
people - imagine shutting down public transportation for
everyone in Florida! Barricading the roads. And
not letting anyone leave. What a nightmare!)
This
is being called an emerging, rapidly evolving situation.
This
coronavirus is able to transfer from person to person and
there are infected people that show no symptoms and it can
take two weeks or so for symptoms to show up and the
source of the infection is unknown and could still be active.
The perfect storm. (Checking temperatures of people on
specific flights is certainly only a band-aid in preventing
the spread. Any infected people on an airplane would
have infected the plane and probably numerous fellow
passengers.)
Already
this virus has been confirmed in people the United
States. There are some 63 patients in 22 states
that are under CDC investigation now.
Today, January 25, the US State Dept is evacuating
AMCITS (American citizens) from Wuhan, arranging charter
flights and temporarily closing the consulate there.
So, is this just another 'naturally' emerging
virus from China or did something happen?
China built a Biosafety Level 4
(BSL-4) laboratory in Wuhan, China; it was certified in
January 2017 by the China National Accreditation Service for
Conformity Assessment; it was then approved by the Ministry of
Health some months later. This is the Wuhan National
Biosafety Laboratory in Wuhan, China - the epicenter of the
coronavirus outbreak.
Scientists
outside of China have expressed
concern about pathogens escaping from this facility.
From the Nature article
linked below: Having a BSL-4 lab " will offer more
opportunities for Chinese researchers, and our contribution
on the BSL-4-level pathogens will benefit the world," said
George Gao, the director of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
Key Laboratory of Pathogenic Microbiology and Immunology,
Beijing.....
But worries surround
the Chinese lab too. The SARS virus has escaped from
the high-level containment facilities in Beijing multiple
times, notes Richard Ebright, a molecular
biologist at Rutgers University in Piscataway, New
Jersey. Tim Trevan, founder of CHROME Biosafety and
Biosecurity Consulting in Damascus, Maryland, says that an
open culture is important to keeping BSL-4 labs safe, and he
questions how easy this will be in China, where society
emphasizes hierarchy. "Diversity of viewpoint,
flat structures where everyone feels free to speak up and
openness of information are important," he says.
The plan to expand into a
network heightens such concerns. One BSL-4 in
Harbin (China) is already awaiting accreditation; the next
two are expected to be in Beijing and Kunming (China),
the latter focused on using monkey models to study
disease... Chinese researchers face less red tape than those
in the West when it comes to research on primates...if you
want to test vaccines or antivirals, you need a non-human
primate model"....
But
Ebright is not convinced of the need for more than one
BSL-4 lab in mainland China....governments will assume
that such excess capacity is for the potential development
of bioweapons. "These facilities are inherently dual
use," he says. (For research on
vaccines/antivirals and the development and production of
bioweapons.) https://www.nature.com/news/inside-the-chinese-lab-poised-to-study-world-s-most-dangerous-pathogens-1.21487
Inside
the Chinese lab poised to study world's most dangerous
pathogens : Nature News & Comment
What
is a BSL-4 lab? "BSL-4 labs are rare. However some
do exist in a small number of places in the US and around the
world. As the highest level of biological safety, a
BSL-4 lab consists of work with highly dangerous and exotic
microbes. Infections caused by these types of microbes
are frequently fatal, and come without treatment of
vaccines.https://consteril.com/biosafety-levels-difference/
Biosafety
Levels 1, 2, 3 & 4 | What's The Difference?
What
is China's lab studying? (That is known anyway.)
The most high-risk pathogens, including BSL-4 Ebola, BSL-4
West African Lassa virus and the BSL-3 SARS viruses, BSL-3
tick-borne virus that causes Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic
fever. "Scientists warned in 2017 that a SARS-like virus
could escape a lab set up that year in Wuhan, China, to study
some of the most dangerous pathogens in the world."
https://awesomecapital.blogspot.com/2020/01/china-built-wuhan-lab-to-study-sars.html
AwesomeCapital:
China built Wuhan lab to study SARS, Ebola; experts warned
of virus ‘escape’
Many
do not trust the Chinese government. Just last year a
Chinese researcher and her students were escorted from the
National Microbiology Lab in Winnipeg. This is Canada's
only BSL-4 lab. Their security access was revoked and
this researcher's regular trips to China were being denied
before she was escorted from the facility and placed on an
indeterminate time of leave.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/chinese-researcher-escorted-from-infectious-disease-lab-amid-rcmp-investigation-1.5211567
Chinese
researcher escorted from infectious disease lab amid RCMP
investigation | CBC News
Also,
"One of the biggest national security threats in the
U.S.-China trade war could be the everyday medicines taken by
millions of American.s...Antibiotics, over-the-counter pain
meds.. - a lot of it is imported from China. But the
U.S. is woefully unprepared to address even minor disruptions
in the supply of these drugs. "Medicines can be used as
a weapon of war against the United States," Rosemary
Gibson, a senior adviser on health care issues at the
bioethics-focused Hastings Center...told Lawmakers last month.
"Supplies can be withheld. Medicines can be made with
lethal contaminants or sold without any read medicine in them,
rendering them ineffective." ...China hopes of
surpassing the United States as the world's biggest producer
of pharmaceutical products. Last year, China accounted for 95
percent of U.S. imports of ibuprofen, 91 percent of U.S.
imports of hydrocortisone, 70 percent of U.S. imports of
acetaminophen, 40 to 45 percent of U.S. imports of penicillin
and 40 percent of U.S. imports of heparin, according to
Commerce Department data. In all, 80 percent of
the U.S. supply of antibiotics are made in China." https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/20/policymakers-worry-china-drug-exports-088126
U.S.
policymakers worry about China 'weaponizing' drug exports
- POLITICO
So
what are other places has this coronavirus been
confirmed/identified? Japan, Republic of Korea,
Singapore, Vietnam, Nepal, Malaysia, France, Australia,
Thailand, and the United States. Possibly Portugal will
be added to the list. What is being done to stop the
spread of this? Hong Kong is reportedly shutting down
its schools until February 17. All transportation
services in and out of Beijing will be suspended tomorrow -
Jan 26. Screening (temperature-taking) is being
conducted at O'Hare, John F. Kennedy, Hartsfield-Jackson, Los
Angeles and San Francisco International Airports.
Internationally, the measures to stop the spread of this are
slim. Most are hoping China can 'deal with this.'
Even
the Chinese are concerned that the Chinese government isn't
telling them the truth about this virus - "
"Residents
of Wuhan report empty shelves in stores and express
frustration that the government isn't telling them the full
story...The extreme measures were accompanied by other
indications that Communist Party authorities were struggling
to control the outbreak, notably the aggressive censorship of
any criticism or skepticism on social media."...WHO Director
General Tedros Ghebreyesus said at a news conference..
the emergency committee was divided on whether the outbreak
deserves the special designation ("a public health emergency
of international concern")., but said regardless,
the outbreak amounts to "an emergency in China. "It has
not yet become a global health emergency, but it may become
one."
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Wuhan-quarantine-expands-as-Chinese-fear-14997682.php
Chinese
cities cancel New Year celebrations, travel ban widens in
effort to stop coronavirus outbreak - SFGate
"Coronavirus: Fears rise of Chinese cover-up
as 56 million in lockdown and hospitals overwhelmed.:
Mask-wearing patients fainting in the street. Hundreds
of fearful citizens lining up cheek by jowl, as risk of
infecting each other, in narrow hospital corridors as they
wait to be treated by doctors in forbidding white hazmat
suits. The terrifying video clips, reportedly recorded
by shocked citizens from hospitals in Wuhan, the epicentre
of the deadly coronavirus that has swept across
China....went viral on Chinese social media this week and
did not paint a picture of a government in control.
Further
raw footage showed makeshift tents in hospital carparks, as
the government
pledged on Friday to construct a new 1000-bed facility
within just ten days to treat and contain the new virus from a
similar pathogen to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
(SARS). ...After weeks of apparent delays in tackling the
growing health emergency that first appeared from a Wuhan
seafood market, the Chinese authorities suddenly swung into
action this week with the draconian lockdown not only of the
city of 11 million, but also severe travel curbs on more
than 17 other cities in the surrounding Hubei provine,
corralling at least 56 milion people...the Global Times
revealed that vital resources, including testing kits and
protective gear such as masks, goggles, hats and clothing
were urgently needed, reporting that 40 military doctors had
been dispatched to help flagging civilian doctors. Sophie
Richardson, China director at Human Rights Watch, said
that the unexpected quarantine and China's broader
response to the crisis also raised real concerns about
transparency."
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/01/24/coronavirus-fears-rise-chinese-cover-up-40-million-lockdown/?WT.mc_id=tmg_share_tw
Coronavirus:
Fears rise of Chinese cover-up as 56 million in lockdown
and hospitals overwhelmed
It's
being reported that the Chinese Central Government is taking
over the administration of Wuhan.
It's
looking more and more like the world is not being told what
is really happening over in China. Will this become our
"Spanish Flu"? Will this continue to spread and be a
'pestilence' of the Last Days or just a taste of what is
coming in the Last Days?
Luke
21:11 "There will be great earthquakes, and in various
places famines and pestilences. There will be terrors
and great signs from heaven."
Revelation
6:8 " And I looked, and behold, a pale horse! and it's
rider's name is Death, and Hades followed him. And
they were given authority over a fourth of the earth, to
kill with sword and with famine and with pestilence
and by wild beasts of the earth."
And
here is a link to a global map (you can scroll across the
world) - the updates are slow but you can see confirmed cases
by country/region.
untry/regionnothttps://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6
Coronavirus
2020-nCoV
Pray
for the people of Wuhan. Pray for the people of China.
Pray
for the peace of Jerusalem!
Maranatha!
Chance