[Info-vax] testing the water

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2020-03-23 kl. 23:49, skrev Dave Froble:
> On 3/23/2020 4:14 PM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
>> In article <r5aj9a$pf3$1 at dont-email.me>, Dave Froble
>> <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
>>
>>> We need to be looking at avoiding these things.  What is wrong in China
>>> that such things keep coming along?  Perhaps some fundamental changes
>>> need to occur.
>>
>> Anything concrete?  I would never live in China; I will very probably
>> never even visit it; it's not my kind of place.  But I don't think that
>> the virus came into existence because of Mao's hairdo.  Or do you have a
>> better theory?
>>
>> China has a huge population; a random virus is more likely to come from
>> there than from Liechtenstein.
>>
> 
> I seem to remember reading in the past that you'd have pigs on the first 
> floor, and people on the second floor.
> 
> I have seen Chinese food shops with all kinds of live food.
> 
> Many of the flu virus seem to come from China.  SARS. Others.
> 

I think you should read up a little better. I know that your
president use to say "that Chinese virus", and that may be
corrent in this case, but not always.

 From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_epidemics

1918–1920, Spanish flu (pandemic)
1957–1958, Asian flu
1968–1969, Hong Kong flu
1972–1973, London flu
2009, flu pandemic ("swine flu") Originated in North America
2012, Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus outbreak (MERS)

Also note that the table "Major modern influenza pandemics" on
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_flu_pandemic, says that a
"Typical seasonal flu" has 290-650.000 deaths (world wide).

Anyway, it is not as simple as that every flu comes from China.
Most do not.