Coronavirus: Do the Chinese Remember Chinese Medicine?
Thoughts on the coronavirus, which you will not read anywhere else
On Tuesday, February 11, the number of new cases of coronavirus infection fell for the second consecutive time.
This is the lowest number of new infections in the past two weeks.
According to information from the Chinese National Health Commission, there were 2015 new infections, against 3900 per day last week.
This is a decrease of almost 50% in the number of daily injections.
The World Health Organization estimates that it is far too early to deduce that the peak of the epidemic has been crossed.
This morning, Thursday, February 13, we are told that the number of dead and those affected have “jumped”! Over 14,000 patients! But it is actually because the calculation system has changed! One counts from now on as patients of the coronavirus all the people who present symptoms of infection during an X-ray of the lungs, without even the virus being detected !!
We no longer know who to believe.
However, I still think that the fear of a coronavirus-related apocalypse was not justified. For the record, this virus has killed 1,200 in a month and a half, knowing that there are 3,000 deaths every day in China due to respiratory infections (caused by other viruses and by intense air pollution ).
Brutal police repression
Namely, moreover, that a large part of these new infections with coronavirus does not occur because of the epidemic itself, but because of the aberrant measures taken by the Authorities to confine thousands of people in hospitals built-in emergency - and praised in the Western press as the very example of the “Chinese miracle”.
The Chinese police, in fact, look for people with symptoms of fever or respiratory infection, who very often have nothing to do with the coronavirus, and force them into these “wonderful hospitals” which would in fact be internment camps.
This is how the virus spreads among many people who would have been spared if they had stayed at home.
The truth about the hospital built in ten days
"- Realize, my little lady! In China, they build a hospital with a thousand beds in ten days! Wherewith us, it would take 20 years! All the same, the dictatorship sometimes has good! ”’
Newspapers around the world tout the performance. A "Chinese miracle," they exclaim.
In reality, these hospitals may well be a disaster, helping to spread the disease.
According to a study that has just appeared in JAMA, one of the high-level reference medical journals:
"From an epidemiological point of view, it seems that the disease is of nosocomial origin for 41% of patients ..."
"Nosocomial origin" is an opaque expression to say that 41% of new cases catch the disease in hospitals which are real breeding grounds.
According to a commentary on this study published in the International Journal of Medicine on February 11, 2020:
“This importance of nosocomial infections could also reflect the specificities of the Chinese health system, in this case, the almost systematic recourse to the hospital as soon as the slightest suspicion of infection (due to insufficient city medicine), hence a multiplication of nosocomial infections, even at the current stage of the epidemic. ”
Treatment, or confinement?
One concern that we may have, in any case, is that these "hospitals" (because there is going to be a second one) are not so much intended to care for the sick as to lock them up.
The images published are not necessarily reassuring for the people who will be interned in these rooms:
Because the Chinese authorities rarely back down from physical violence.
Journalist Fang Bing has disappeared, arrested by the police, after having disseminated frightful images of panic prevailing in these hospitals presented as “models” by the Chinese regime and the Western media. Another journalist, Chen Qiushi, also disappeared after criticizing the measures taken by the Chinese authorities.
No technical prowess behind these “hospitals” built in a hurry
For non-connoisseurs (like me), building such a hospital in a few days is nevertheless a feat.
However, information is taken from an expert, the architect Juan Herreros, from the Polytechnic School of Madrid, a specialist in these prefabricated constructions:
"There is no technical feat."
“They are prefabricated nested one inside the other. The armies of many countries have had these resources since the end of the Second World War ”.
These are military infrastructures, used in conflict zones for "various" uses.
Come back, Lao-Tzu, they have gone crazy !!
Still, if the battle against the coronavirus is not over yet, it will have had the merit of revealing that the sound principles of Chinese medicine are as trampled on as human rights in China.
“Fainted, traditional Chinese medicine and its millennial wisdom. Evacuated, the ancient Taoist philosopher and his extraordinary methods of global health ”, choked my colleague Yves Rasir in his last letter on this subject, which I recommend you read.
Clearly, Chinese leaders no longer believe in needles, energies, Yin and Yang, medicinal herbs.
However, their alignment with the vision (and interests) of the large pharmaceutical industry is now perfect.
This will undoubtedly be a great lesson that can be drawn from this sad event.
Cheers!