Another Coronavirus Thread

I wanted to drop this here because I think this may help alleviate some of the panic associated with this thing, and also maybe illustrate some very bad behavior on the part of...Well, someone. (We can leave the speculation out as it's already been thoroughly speculated upon)

Here is a non-peer reviewed article that has some interesting insights into all of this. They're claiming essentially that this thing may only be a danger to Asian males.

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We also noticed that the only Asian donor (male) has a much higher ACE2-expressing cell ratio than white and African American donors (2.50% vs. 0.47% of all cells). This might explain the observation that the new Coronavirus pandemic and previous SARS-Cov pandemic are concentrated in the Asian area.

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LINK

If this article holds up to review process, I believe it lends a lot of credence to the idea of this being a designer virus.

The long and short of it is that this thing may not get off the ground outside Asia. And so far, the stats seem to bear that out. crisis, maybe, averted.