Yes, I have been following this quite closely. Here is Senator Coton -
I personally struggle to believe it's a bio-weapon. With a 10% death rate, it's not much of a weapon. Imagine arming your troops with bullets which kill 1 in every ten people they hit. However, that's assuming the death rates are true, and I don't believe a single word that is slipped through the Great Firewall of China. But I still think its a low death rate for a weapon, as it's clearly not like Ebola, and it is very similar to flu.
My guess, if I had to guess, is that it is either a mistake, coming from the Wuhan lab which is the only one in China and within 20miles of the first known cases. Or if it is a deliberate weapon, that it's designed by the Commie govt of China to wipe out CHINESE people (as they have been trying to reduce population for eons). Interesting reading about the virus and how it seems to be far more deadly (and easier to contract) for Asians than for black or white people. That seems curious to me, could of course just be a complete coincidence.
In my view, it's worrying,but the virus doesn't worry me half as much as the economic implications of China's economy collapsing which is very possible (perhaps likely at this rate). In this ridiculously globalised financial system (ponzi scheme), if one card falls, they all fall. The charts (I trade stocks) for nearly a decade have suggested we should be having a financial meltdown as the essential components of strong economies have been missing for many years now, just propped up with BS fudging of figures, printing money, and tax-funded schemes to prop up the housing and car markets in western countries. I have been convinced for quite a few years now, that the financial system simply MUST have a hard reset soon, where debts are forgiven/expunged, and countries begin again by producing goods and bringing back real value to this bubble of value perceptions we call "currencies". For this reason, I think this virus (deadly or not) has a high probability of being the catalyst to a global crisis of proportions never seen before, and all it would take is one major global market to collapse. The rest then collapse. Runs on banks begin, people get angry, police step in but are outnumbered, they then use heavier handed tactics, which is returned by mass violence from the people, and so the real virus begins.... civil unrest/panic.
I studied the Argentinian financial meltdown of 2001, and that's precisely how it happened there. Within days of the first banks closing its doors to customers demanding their money, gangs were murdering and raping people randomly, the bankers flew off with cash in brief cases (from roofs of banks in some cases!) and it all went pop. That was an indigenous country with very few social/racial/religious divisions. I gravely fear for a society like my own, with a plethora of cultures/religions/races/languages. Sorry, call me a pessimist, but I don't see a moslem area running to help their Christian neighbours,. nor vice versa. Group interests/preferences kick in (as if they haven't already), and that's one more fact which makes me fear much more for a financial collapse than I would do otherwise. Time will tell. But that's my two (maybe three) cents, FWIW
(And if I said my desire for a new CCTV system with PTZ had nothing to do with Coronavirus, I would be lying.)
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