This article republishes a chapter originally posted on January 31, 2020, and discusses the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus in mainland China, the dysfunction of Wuhan’s medical system, and the reality that hospitals there could not even perform triage. It also presents the view that an outbreak on the same scale as China’s is unlikely in Japan, while noting the need to pay attention to the incubation period and vulnerable people.

March 25, 2020
This is the reality of a country that, until just yesterday, continued to receive large amounts of ODA from Japan every year, while trying to gain global hegemony by buying off poor countries in Africa and Asia with money.
I am republishing the chapter I posted on January 31, 2020, under the title “When one looks at the footage, Wuhan hospitals cannot even perform ‘triage,’ in which the order of treatment is determined according to severity.”
A little while ago, while searching about the WHO’s emergency declaration, I found the following article on President Online.
In this article, too, there was a passage that revealed the reality of China.
It is a country trying to become a hegemonic state while remaining under a one-party Communist dictatorship, a system that no advanced country would accept.
It is a country that, for more than the past 20 years, has continued to impose air pollution on its people at a level that can hardly be called an environment fit for human beings, while spending enormous funds on military expansion, including nuclear weapons.
This is the reality of a country that, until just yesterday, continued to receive large amounts of ODA from Japan every year, while trying to gain global hegemony by buying off poor countries in Africa and Asia with money.
The emphases in the text, other than the headings, are mine.
There is no need to panic over the spread of infection in mainland China
Its true nature is gradually becoming clear.
It is the pathogen of the new pneumonia now at issue, the “Wuhan coronavirus.”
From around mid-December of last year, infected people began appearing one after another in Wuhan, China, 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 had surpassed the number infected by SARS, about 8,000 people, which spread from 2002 to 2003, and the number of deaths had exceeded 200.
The infection had spread to more than 20 countries and regions, and infected people had also appeared inside Japan.
However, there is no need to panic over this spread of infection.
There have been zero deaths in Japan and in countries and regions outside mainland China.
Because China lacks sufficient medical equipment and medical systems, the infection has spread that much, and as a result, the number of deaths has increased.
In fact, when one looks at SNS footage arriving from China, Wuhan hospitals cannot even perform “triage,” in which the order of treatment is determined according to severity.
There was also the figure of a medical worker excitedly complaining, “Even though I have a fever, I cannot get examined.”
Inside the hospitals, panic has broken out, and they have fallen into dysfunction.
On January 30, Tedros, Director-General of the WHO, the World Health Organization, declared a “public health emergency of international concern” at the headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.
Middle omitted.
An outbreak like China’s cannot occur in Japan
Based on these facts, it is clear that there is no need to fear the new coronavirus excessively.
There is no specific medicine or vaccine, but it is a disease that can be sufficiently handled through symptomatic treatment.
To put it plainly, most of Japan’s media are making too much noise.
It is as if a pathogen with a high fatality rate like the Ebola virus had become airborne and was attacking 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, a spread of infection like China’s cannot occur.
However, I would like people to pay attention to the following two points.
The first point concerns the “incubation period.”
It is believed that the new coronavirus takes from one to fourteen days from infection to onset.
During this incubation period, there is a danger of infecting others.
Furthermore, the existence of asymptomatic infected people, who do not develop symptoms even after being infected, has also been pointed out.
In such cases, because infected people have no subjective symptoms, there is a danger that they will walk around in good health and spread the infection.
The second point concerns “vulnerable people.”
Most symptoms of the new coronavirus are mild, but vulnerable people, such as those with underlying diseases like heart disease or elderly people, are at risk of developing severe symptoms.
If there are such vulnerable people around you, special caution is necessary.
Latter part omitted.