Coronavirus: Threat Beyond Politics [For Political Discussions of CoV]

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As shock value oriented as DM can be the vids here alone stand on their own. Bat soup, live stock origin?

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Coronavirus is the latest round in an age-old struggle

https://www.ft.com/content/bd6cad34-...c-0f8435cd42d9

Pandemics and politics do not mix well.

From article:

Reporting suggests that animals may have been the original source — as was the case with Sars, another virus in the same family — reflecting the proximity which millions in China share with livestock. The emergence of new diseases has also been worsened by climate change, which has expanded the temperate region where pathogens can thrive, according to the World Health Organisation.

Today’s strategy of containment — one of the key measures deployed against endemic diseases — would be familiar to civil authorities and medical personnel as far back as the ancient world. “Quarantine” has its roots in the Venetian Republic’s 14th century efforts to keep out the plague. But the maritime power would have been hard-pressed to institute a cordon sanitaire on a Chinese scale. The ability to lock down cities the size of Wuhan, which is about as big as London, is a reflection of the power of Beijing’s ever more authoritarian rule.

Misinformation, and disinformation, are also still prevalent. During the outbreak of Spanish flu in 1918-19, conspiracy theories of enemy bioweapons circulated. An 1853 outbreak of yellow fever in New Orleans was blamed on immigrants...