#WuFlu Threat Assessment For Feb 19, 2020 #CoronaVirus #Qom

Shelton Bumgarner

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner


To make our general fears concrete, let’s go through and assess where things stand in real terms given the available datapoints.

While in general datapoints remain scattershot, there are three situations that we need to evaluate right now.

Wuhan
To date, this is the only WuFlu hotzone on the planet. There have been just around 2,000 deaths in China, I think, at this point. The only issue is the numbers the CCP is giving out are widely considered to be a lie. And, given how Wuhan is now a dystopian nightmare, it does definitely give one pause for thought. What, exactly, is going on there?

South Korea
From a global order standpoint, the apparent “warm zone” happening in South Korea is probably the most significant. Given how South Korea is almost an ideal situation for exponential growth in cases, it is within the realm of possibility that the entire nation will implode within a fortnight. So many people will be sick that no one will go to work and, as such, there would be an abrupt slowdown in the global economy as a cascading series of failures in the global supply change occured. But it’s early yet. It could be what I fear happens, won’t happen. If what I fear will happen DOES HAPPEN, then, well, buckle up because we don’t know what’s going on in the DPRK and things may get messy.

Qom
This is an odd one. The city is apparently featured in some sort of apocalyptic Muslim text. That the two people who died have no direct connection to Wuhan at all is…unsettling. Only because no one is reading this blog do I wince and say, “What if this a 12 Monkeys type situation? How would we know?” I think the answer would be if another “random” but strategic place suddenly became a hotzone. We already have China, and maybe a strategic religious and oil site with two fatalities. If I was an evil genius, I would strike another pressure point in the middle of nowhere — maybe a mining town somewhere in Indonesia? Something to get the point across? (This is just me crazy talking.)

Assessment
For the time being, I would say while there may be a lot of fear floating about, it could be all the have to worry about is the global economy slowing down a little bit. There’s no reason to believe things are going to get worse. And, if they do, it could be just a lot of people get sick, but don’t die. And as long as no Americans get sick, those all-important Twitter liberals will lulz it.

Author: Shelton Bumgarner

I am the Editor & Publisher of The Trumplandia Report

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