There Is No Need to Panic Over the Spread of Infection in Mainland China: The Reality of the Wuhan Coronavirus Born of an Inadequate Medical System
Published on January 31, 2020.
This article discusses a President Online report found while searching for information on the WHO’s emergency declaration, pointing out that the spread of the novel pneumonia outbreak and the rise in deaths in mainland China were caused by insufficient medical facilities and an inadequate healthcare system.
At the same time, it critically examines the reality of China, including one-party rule by the Chinese Communist Party, severe air pollution, military expansion, ODA from Japan, and its growing influence over Africa and Asia.
2020-01-31
There have been zero deaths in countries and regions other than Japan and mainland China.
Because China lacks sufficient medical facilities and a sufficiently organized healthcare system, the infection has spread to such an extent, and as a result, the number of deaths has increased.
A little while ago, while searching about the WHO’s emergency declaration, I found the following article from President Online.
In this article, too, there was a passage that revealed the reality of China.
It is a country that seeks to become a hegemonic power while maintaining a system of one-party dictatorship by the Communist Party, a system that no advanced country would accept.
It is a country that, for more than twenty years, has continued to impose on its people air pollution so severe that it is scarcely an environment in which human beings can live, while spending enormous sums of money on military expansion, including nuclear weapons.
It is the reality of a country that, until just yesterday, continued to receive large amounts of ODA from Japan every year, while plotting world hegemony and using money to lure poor countries in Africa and Asia into its orbit.
Emphasis in the text, apart from the headline, is mine.
There Is No Need to Panic When Seeing the Spread of Infection in Mainland China
Its true nature is gradually becoming clear.
I am referring to the pathogen of the novel pneumonia now at issue, the “Wuhan coronavirus.”
From around mid-December last year, infected people began appearing one after another in the Chinese city of Wuhan, and after that, centered on that city, the number of infected people in mainland China continued to increase.
As of January 31, the number of infected people worldwide was about to exceed 10,000.
It surpassed the number of people infected with SARS, which spread from 2002 to 2003, approximately 8,000 people, and the number of deaths exceeded 200.
The infection has spread to more than twenty countries and regions, and infected people have also appeared within Japan.
However, there is no need to panic over this spread of infection.
There have been zero deaths in countries and regions other than Japan and mainland China.
Because China lacks sufficient medical facilities and a sufficiently organized healthcare system, the infection has spread to such an extent, and as a result, the number of deaths has increased.
In fact, looking at SNS videos arriving from China, hospitals in Wuhan are not even able to perform “triage,” in which the order of treatment is determined according to the severity of patients’ conditions.
There was also footage of a medical worker excitedly appealing, “I have a fever, but I cannot get examined.”
The inside of the hospitals has fallen into panic and dysfunction.
On January 30, WHO Director-General Tedros declared a “public health emergency of international concern” at the headquarters of the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland.
Omission.
An Infection Spread Like China’s Cannot Occur in Japan
When one considers these facts, it becomes clear that there is no need to fear the novel coronavirus excessively.
There is no specific remedy or vaccine, but it is a disease that can be handled adequately with symptomatic treatment.
To put it plainly, most of the Japanese media are making too much noise.
It is as if they are creating an uproar in which a pathogen with a high fatality rate, like the Ebola virus, has become airborne and attacked humanity.
What is important here is to grasp the facts accurately and respond calmly.
In a word, in Japan, where medical care is well developed, an infection spread like China’s cannot occur.
However, I would like you to pay attention to the following two points.
The first point concerns the “incubation period.”
The novel coronavirus is believed to have an incubation period of one to fourteen days from infection to the onset of symptoms.
There is a danger that people may infect others during this incubation period.
Furthermore, the existence of asymptomatic infected people, who do not develop symptoms even after infection, has also been pointed out.
In such cases, since infected people have no subjective symptoms, they may walk around in good health and risk spreading the infection.
The second point concerns “medically vulnerable people.”
Most symptoms of the novel coronavirus are mild, but medically vulnerable people, such as those with underlying conditions like heart disease or the elderly, are at risk of developing severe symptoms.
Particular caution is necessary if there are such medically vulnerable people around you.
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