Coronavirus Kamikaze
Pity the Emperor of Japan. The country is on high alert due to the Coronavirus, therefore Emperor Naruhito’s birthday celebrations have been cancelled.
If you believe in the hocus-pocus of genetics the Japanese have good reason to be worried. For some unkind souls have been putting it about that they are the most genetically susceptible to the virus. Even more unkind is the news that eighty thousand Chinese ‘liked’ a post on social media, informing them that a Japanese had died of the Coronavirus.
As an aside… lest we forget ‘the real virus is racism’… a Congolese student, Kem Senoua, has recovered after catching the disease in the city of Jingzhou. There has been been a rumour going about that Kangz will inherit the earth, after the apocalypse, due to the magical power of melanin.
Not that white people should worry because Romania has come to rescue, by developing a cure that only works on white people. Which is strange news on the day that a Tanzanian ghost ship washed up on the shores of Ireland: unconfirmed reports say a single black dog came ashore.
The situation in Japan is made more confusing by the continued presence of the plague vessel, Diamond Princess. 99 new cases were confirmed today. Which for the jittery Japanese adds to their total of some 500 confirmed cases. This is doing the Japanese economy no good. Perhaps in a show of willing, in an Olympic year, the Tokyo marathon is going ahead but is being restricted to elite athletes only.
Meanwhile in Hong Kong, having solved the issue of if the virus is coming up through the toilet a new crisis has arisen: rationing of toilet paper. However as rationing came into effect an armed gang stole a lorry load of two-ply; the police say they have nothing to go on…
In other news, the Russian Foreign Minster, Sergei Lavrov, has used a false arm when shaking hands with his Chinese counterpart. And Alla Ilyana has been returned to quarantine having jumped over a wall to escape the tedium of reading the New Yorker for two weeks.
But the main news of the day, once more, is from China.
Having established that the Chinese knew of the virus by Jan 5th. Questions have been raised as to why the local party in Wuhan went ahead with banquet for 40,000 families some two weeks later. The allegation is that the centre of the outbreak, and the majority of the victims, arise from this gathering.
What isn’t being discussed, is that while this was happening the Chinese were signing a trade deal in the White House.
No doubt Dimension B dwellers will overlook, the sinophobia, were this meeting to fulfill Baba Vanga’s prophesy.
Sadly for those same inhabitants of Dimension B Apple has announced a profits warning…
Israel has stopped foreigners from entering the country from Singapore, Thailand, Hong Kong and Macau… racists…
Oh and the peak of infections in China is not expected until April.
But it is only flu…
Previous posts…
Feb 3rd — Coronavirus May Be Serious
Feb 4th — Coronavirus Spreading, But Rumours Contained
Feb 5th — Report Says Thousands Killed By Coronavirus in China
Feb 6th — Coronavirus Conspiracy Theories
Feb 7th — Coronavirus Misinformation
Feb 8th — Coronavirus ‘Self Isolates’ China
Feb 9th — China Comes Clean on Coronavirus
Feb 10th — Britain Braces for Coronavirus
Feb 11th — Coronavirus: Chinese Market News
Feb 12th — Coronavirus Relaunches As COVID19
Feb 13th — Coronavirus Figures Explained
Feb 14th — Coronavirus Phoney War
Feb 15th — Coronavirus And AIDS
Feb 16th — Creating the Coronavirus