To All,
As I've said on this forum repeatedly, I have an old American-born school chum who is now a well-known doctor & owner of several hospitals in the Shanghai, China vicinity.
(We all call her "Mei-Mei", as her real name is HARD to pronounce.)
Her latest "mass email" to alumni is that:
1. MORE people in China have died from the "regular flu" since Dec 2019 than have contracted Covid-19.
(She said that 50-60 thousand people die each "flu season" from the "Winter Flu".)
2. Most people who contract Covid-19 will NEVER know that they are "positive" for the virus, unless they are tested in a quality lab.
3. The ONLY patients in her family's hospitals who are very ill are either:
A. Over 65YO & who have a chronic illness already
or
B. Persons who have a "badly compromised immune system" due to HIV, treatment with immunity system -suppressing drugs or already have another similar chronic malady.
AND
4. Mei-Mei believes that the current "media hysteria" about a "possible pandemic" like the Pandemic of 1918-19 is intended to "scare the unwary members of the general public to death", so that they can SELL more advertising in print & broadcast media outlets.
(She is at least as cynical about politicians, government "experts" & the "mass media" as I am. = VERY cynical.)
yours, satx
As I've said on this forum repeatedly, I have an old American-born school chum who is now a well-known doctor & owner of several hospitals in the Shanghai, China vicinity.
(We all call her "Mei-Mei", as her real name is HARD to pronounce.)
Her latest "mass email" to alumni is that:
1. MORE people in China have died from the "regular flu" since Dec 2019 than have contracted Covid-19.
(She said that 50-60 thousand people die each "flu season" from the "Winter Flu".)
2. Most people who contract Covid-19 will NEVER know that they are "positive" for the virus, unless they are tested in a quality lab.
3. The ONLY patients in her family's hospitals who are very ill are either:
A. Over 65YO & who have a chronic illness already
or
B. Persons who have a "badly compromised immune system" due to HIV, treatment with immunity system -suppressing drugs or already have another similar chronic malady.
AND
4. Mei-Mei believes that the current "media hysteria" about a "possible pandemic" like the Pandemic of 1918-19 is intended to "scare the unwary members of the general public to death", so that they can SELL more advertising in print & broadcast media outlets.
(She is at least as cynical about politicians, government "experts" & the "mass media" as I am. = VERY cynical.)
yours, satx