1-4-2020 UPDATE: MOH issued a statement, on 5 January, confirming that the case is not linked to the pneumonia cluster in Wuhan.
SINGAPORE — The Ministry of Health (MOH) has been notified of a suspected case involving a Chinese national with pneumonia and a travel history to Wuhan, where a mysterious infectious disease has afflicted dozens.
The three-year-old girl had not visited the Huanan seafood wholesale market in the mainland Chinese city linked to a cluster of pneumonia cases of “unknown cause”, said MOH in a news release on Saturday (4 January). https://sg.news.yahoo.com/wuhan-virus-outbreak-singapore-sees-first-suspected-case-062919705.html
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-Temperature screening continues at airports in Thailand receiving passengers from Wuhan in China
1-9-2020 The scientists say they’ve found a new coronavirus in 15 of 57 patients with the illness in the central city of Wuhan, saying it has been preliminarily identified as the pathogen for the outbreak”. The news was reported on the Chinese state broadcaster CCTV.
https://thethaiger.com/hot-news/tourism/chinese-scientists-identify-the-wuhan-virus-screening-continues-on-thai-bound-flights
(Thailand had 11 million tourists from China in 2019.)
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3-11-20
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3-11-20 The most extreme terrorists have developed a military doctrine that a deadly global pandemic could kill a large portion of the world’s population but, most importantly, destroy the economies, governments and technical infrastructures of the world’s most advanced economies and create a huge advantage for surviving cultures with large populations capable of living, or even thriving, at a primitive economic and cultural level.
These non-state (and many rogue-state) groups have access to bioweapon technology; could, relatively easily and cheaply obtain MERS or SARS or other virulent strains and figure out human subject-based experiment/refine/distribute systems to launch an attack.
A clever terrorist strategy — and our enemies are extremely clever — to launch the current crisis would have been to send an infected radical Chinese citizen to carry the virus to Wuhan and launch it secretly. Predictably, the People’s Republic of China bureaucracy would move slowly to deal with it and then cover it up. It could reach critical mass in Wuhan and spread across China and internationally before there was any serious response.
Terrorists could, and would, go on to plant the virus randomly across the world with additional infected agents. These would be done in small, random patches (i.e., Italy, Iran, the U.S. West Coast, and so forth). It would leave everyone confused and guessing. “Experts” and media speculation would add to the confusion and panic. All of this could be done with limited funding (less than $100,000 and fewer than 50 people — the fewer, the better for secrecy). The results would be predictable. https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/485921-the-coronavirus-blueprint-for-bioterrorism
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House has ordered federal health officials to treat top-level coronavirus meetings as classified, an unusual step that has restricted information and hampered the U.S. government’s response to the contagion, according to four Trump administration officials.
The officials said that dozens of classified discussions about such topics as the scope of infections, quarantines and travel restrictions have been held since mid-January in a high-security meeting room at the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS), a key player in the fight against the coronavirus. https://www.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-white-house-told-federal-163043805.html
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3.6.6. In the formation of new communities it is necessary to have in mind a troublesome specific human trait--I am speaking of envy. From rivalry there gradually arises the viper of envy and in the same nest are falsehood and hypocrisy. -Leaves of Morya's Garden 1925
261. In the life of every association there may occur a situation wherein a development in one certain direction may bring harmful results. Then the guiding leader must find a path of new tasks broad enough to absorb the friction. -M: Community 1926
437. But it is regrettable when scattered ideas provide only fragments of an intended whole. Yet even in such cases We shall say "Let every seed grow that is of benefit to humanity. Let all friends become accustomed to the sowing of ideas without rivalry and without infringing upon one another's rights. One should rejoice at every harvest."
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