1123 Billionaire Whistleblower: Wuhan crematoriums have cremated 50,000 bodies (CNN)

Billionaire Whistleblower: Wuhan crematoriums have cremated 50,000
bodies (CNN)

Newsletter published on February 10, 2020

If your Immune System is strong, you should survive - see item 4. Be
aware, but stay calm.

(1) Billionaire Whistleblower: Wuhan crematoriums have cremated 50,000
bodies (CNN)
(2) Massive release of Sulfur Dioxide gas from the outskirts of Wuhan
(3) Chinese Copper buyers cancel Orders; price of Copper plunges
(4) Wuhan ICU Doctor: "For most, the illness is over in 2 weeks; those
with weak immune systems will die in 3 weeks"
(5) Wuhan coronavirus spreads by aerosol transmission (Air
Conditioning?); but killed by Bleach
(6) Eighty cities in China are under lockdown, including Beijing

(1) Billionaire Whistleblower: Wuhan crematoriums have cremated 50,000
bodies (CNN)
https://www.ccn.com/billionaire-whistleblower-wuhan-coronavirus-death-toll-is-over-50000/

Published: February 9, 2020 3:54 PM UTC

Billionaire Whistleblower: Wuhan Coronavirus Death Toll Is Over 50,000

Exiled Chinese businessman Guo Wengui recently revealed leaks from Wuhan
crematoriums. He claims based on the number of bodies their furnaces are
burning, the death toll could be as high as 50,000.

Author Image  Author: W. E. Messamore @thehuli coronavirus A Chinese
billionaire and whistleblower who lives in U.S. exile says Wuhan
crematoriums have burned 50,000 coronavirus victims. | Credit:
Chinatopix via AP

The official coronavirus death toll in China is a little over 800. But
an exiled Chinese businessman says crematoriums are leaking the real
figure. A billionaire whistleblower alleges Wuhan has crematoriums
working 24/7. He claims they’ve cremated some 50,000 coronavirus
victims. Guo Wengui is a Chinese billionaire living in exile in the
United States. The official coronavirus death toll is some 800 people in
China. The current official death toll worldwide, outside of China, is
774. But a Chinese billionaire with a history of blowing the whistle on
his former government says the real figure is much higher.

Exiled Chinese businessman Guo Wengui recently revealed leaks from Wuhan
crematoriums. He claims based on the number of bodies their furnaces are
burning, the death toll could be as high as 50,000. Wengui made the
bombshell allegations in an interview with former White House chief
strategist Steve Bannon.

Whistleblower: 1.5 Million Coronavirus Cases In China, 50,000
Coronavirus Deaths In Wuhan He also claims to have inside information
that there are 1.5 million confirmed coronavirus cases in China. Wengui
is emphatic that these are not merely quarantined or "under observation"
but confirmed cases of coronavirus infection:

So I got inside information. The truth is 1.5 million people is not only
[an] observation, [it] is confirmed [cases]. And the number of people
who have died, as the burned bodies show, [is] more than 50,000. [...]

Wengui is a mysterious and controversial figure. After falling into
disfavor with the Communist Party of China, the real estate developer
fled to the United States in 2015.

China has charged him with rape, bribery, kidnapping, money laundering,
and fraud. But the U.S. has declined to extradite him. Guo has published
a number of other allegations of corruption among top Chinese officials.
VICE news says they’re a mixed bag. Some have been proven false, some
have been neither verified nor disproved, and others have turned out to
be accurate.

Crematoriums Are Working Overtime To Handle Coronavirus Death Toll

Wengui says there are 49 crematoriums in Wuhan, and they’ve been working
24/7 for 17 days. Last week, a crematorium worker identified as "Mr.
Yun" told a Chinese newspaper he and co-workers have been working 24
hours a day:

Almost all staff at each funeral home in Wuhan are fully equipped, and
all Wuhan cremation chambers are working 24 hours.

Mr. Yun says at his location alone, 100 body bags are required a day.
The Epoch Times does have a strong anti-communist party bias, but it has
not failed any fact checks in the past. And its reporting in the case of
Mr. Yun was picked up by the Daily Mail.

Not all the bodies going into the Wuhan crematoriums are victims of
coronavirus. There is still the usual number of deaths from other
causes. But these account for a small number of the new round-the-clock
pace of cremations.

One crematorium manager told a Hong Kong reporter that, in normal times,
his 24 ovens were lit five days a week for four hours at a time. Now, he
said, they have so many corpses to deal with that all the ovens are
going around the clock.

With reports like these, and the Chinese government’s history of
suppressing information to maintain its idea of order, the official
coronavirus figures are very questionable.

The opinions expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect the
views of CCN.com.

This article was edited by Gerelyn Terzo.

(2) Massive release of Sulfur Dioxide gas from the outskirts of Wuhan
https://twitter.com/inteldotwav/status/1226267582740811777

@inteldotwav

Data from http://windy.com shows a massive release of sulfur dioxide gas
from the outskirts of Wuhan, commonly associated with the burning of
organic matters. Levels are elevated, even compared with the rest of China.

 From the same time, using the same scale - notice that the emissions
are heightened across the board. Only other city that comes near to it
is Chongquing, which is also afflicted by the #coronavirus.

(3) Chinese Copper buyers cancel Orders; price of Copper plunges

https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/chinese-copper-buyers-cancel-orders-around-globe-economy-grinds-halt

Chinese Copper Buyers Cancel Orders Around The Globe As Economy Grinds
To A Halt

by Tyler Durden Sun, 02/09/2020 - 15:15 0

While Beijing has been doing everything in its power to keep equity
markets artificially supported to avoid a collapse in the precious
"wealth effect" and investor sentiment, throwing the kitchen sink at
equities and in addition to a record liquidity injection...

... rate and tax cuts, and various fiscal stimulus measures, outright
banning the shorting of stocks, there is one indicator that Beijing has
been unable to manipulate. Ominously, it is the one indicator that leads
overall Chinese output and suggests that the world's 2nd largest economy
has hit a brick wall.

We are talking, of course, about Dr. copper, that age-old barometer for
the health of the global economy, which after rebounding modestly from a
record 13-day drop, has once again resumed sliding, in the process
creating a gaping divergence with the US equity market, which so far has
shown an immunity - so to speak - to any concerns about viruses or
frankly anything else.

But why is the price of copper plunging, and why has this most popular
barometer for the state of the global economy disconnected from both
Chinese stocks and the S&P500?

Simple: while China's "National Team" still has enough firepower to
intervene in the stock market, where it can just outright ban selling
and print any amount of liquidity it needs to push stocks higher, it
lacks the funds to offset the collapse in demand from Chinese copper
buyers on the ground, who have seen the writing on the wall for China's
economy - the world’s largest buyer of the orange metal - and have
literally torn up contracts, or as the FT reports, "copper traders in
China... have asked miners from Chile to Nigeria to cancel or delay
shipments" due to a freefall in copper demand.

According to the report, "multiple Chinese copper buyers said they had
scrapped or postponed overseas orders by declaring force majeure since
the end of January, when Beijing began to report a surge in coronavirus
infections."

As for the reason why copper demand is collapsing, China’s efforts to
contain the virus, ranging from restricting highway traffic to extending
the lunar new year holiday, have affected industrial activity and raised
concerns about growth in the world’s second-biggest economy. In fact, as
we reported on Friday, according to JPMorgan China's Q1 GDP is already
set to plunge from 6% to 1%...

... and while a rebound in Q2 is expected as Beijing gets the pandemic
under control, this may end up an overly optimistic assumption for a
nation where some speculate as many as 1.5 million are now infected.
Indeed, even JPM admits that unless the pandemic is contained in the
next few weeks, China's GDP may crash as much as -4% in Q1, ending all
hopes for a quick rebound, and in the process potentially triggering a
global recession, if not depression.

It's not just copper that is seeing an implosion in demand: Chinese
buyers of liquefied natural gas have also considered declaring force
majeure, a clause that identifies natural disasters or other unavoidable
catastrophes as cause for not fulfilling a contract.

Quoted by the FT, a manager at Guangzhou Zhongshan Trade, a non-ferrous
metal trading firm in southern China that focuses on copper and
antimony, said that "Coronavirus has had a huge impact on copper demand
as downstream users [involved in processing raw copper] have stopped
acquiring raw material." Guangzhou Zhongshan this week asked suppliers
in Chile and Somalia to delay shipments of 500 tonnes of copper worth
about Rmb25m ($3.57m) for at least a week. It has also cancelled a
preliminary contract with a seller in Somalia and has stopped placing
new orders.

"The epidemic is not just a China issue, it is a global problem," the
manager said, adding that its customers had not objected to its
decision, although there is a reason for that - they expect these orders
to return shortly. If that doesn't happen, and if the world's largest
buyer of copper fails to return to the market, the avalanche of upstream
bankruptcies as one copper producer after another files, could result in
the world's biggest commodity shock since Lehman. Copper users, ranging
from car companies to home appliance makers, are suffering from a
collapse in sales.

As for the port of Guangzhou (aka Canton), located in China's Pearl
river delta, one of the biggest in China for commodities trading,
business activity has already plunged with fewer than a third of workers
on duty, the manager added, even though Guangzhou is not yet officially
under quarantine. As a result, at least a dozen other Chinese copper
buyers could use force majeure in the coming weeks to try to renegotiate
copper import contracts, said traders in the city, located about 1,000km
south of Wuhan, the outbreak’s centre. One can only imagine what would
happen if a burst of new cases were to be reported in this province
which is key to China's economy.

One thing is certain: the coronavirus fallout - which has led to nearly
half a billion people living under lock down - is only just starting, as
copper users, ranging from car companies to home appliance makers, face
a sharp drop in sales if the outbreak continues to worsen. Consultancy
Wood Mackenzie said demand for copper-related products could suffer
"further disruptions" after more than a dozen provinces imposed
restrictions on people’s movements in an attempt to contain the disease.

That, the FT reports,  has prompted copper traders to embrace the use of
force majeure, even if it comes at the expense of their business
partners. What it means is that the copper supply chain is now on the
verge of collapse, and it's every man for themselves. Ironically,
Chinese end buyers will be ok, buffeted by the massive liquidity
injections unleashed by the PBOC. But what about all those fragile
upstream producers all of which are so dependent on Chinese purchases?

Well, they are none of China's business: "Sellers have to accept our
terms because the disease has made business contracts invalid," said an
executive at Shenzhen Yongfulu, a copper trader in southern China with
annual revenues of about Rmb40m. Yongfulu imported 4,000 tonnes of
copper last year. The company asked its suppliers in Chile and Somalia
to postpone shipments of 400 tonnes of copper for at least two weeks.

Needless to say, a plunge in Chinese purchases - which has already led
to a record drop in the price of copper - would send shockwaves through
the global copper market. The nation accounts for half of global
consumption of the metal, according to the International Copper Study
Group. Copper futures traded in Shanghai have fallen 8 per cent since
the beginning of this year. And even though many local Chinese smelters
have continued to operate despite the breakout of the pandemic , the
decision to shut down roads in key hubs and cities across China has
caused delays in them receiving raw materials.

The practice of force majeure is controversial. Dan Harris, a lawyer who
has worked on force majeure cases against Chinese firms, said an overuse
of the clause will hurt Chinese copper importers in the long run.
"Legally, these Chinese companies may be in the right," said Mr Harris.
"But [copper sellers] are going to remember that. A year from now they
are not going to sell to those Chinese companies."

Somehow we doubt that: after all who in the world, literally, can
possibly replace the ravenous demand from Chinese buyers. The answer is
rhetorical, which however leads to another question: what happens to
China's economy as the world realizes that countless just-in-time supply
chains, all of which pass through China, are no longer working?

For the answer, read our article from 2012: "Trade-Off": A Study In
Global Systemic Collapse.

(4) Wuhan ICU Doctor: "For most, the illness is over in 2 weeks; those
that can't survive will die in 3 weeks"
From: chris lancenet <chrislancenet@gmail.com>

https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/reporters-notebook-life-and-death-in-a-wuhan-coronavirus-icu

The Death Rate Is Up To 5%": The Harrowing Admission Of A Wuhan Doctor

A front-line coronavirus doctor tells of life in death in the ICU...

Translated by Sun Huixia and Dave Yin via The Straits Times, Singapore

WUHAN (CAIXIN GLOBAL) - In the coronavirus epidemic, doctors on the
front lines take on the greatest risk and best understand the situation.
Dr Peng Zhiyong, director of acute medicine at the Wuhan University
South Central Hospital, is one of those doctors.

In an interview on Tuesday with Caixin, Dr Peng described his personal
experiences in first encountering the disease in early January and
quickly grasping its virulent potential and the need for stringent
quarantine measures.

As the contagion spread and flooded his ICU, the doctor observed that
three weeks seemed to determine the difference between life and death.
Patients with stronger immune systems would start to recover in a couple
of weeks, but in the second week, some cases would take a turn for the
worse.

In the third week, keeping some of these acute patients alive might
require extraordinary intervention. For this group, the death rate seems
to be 4 per cent to 5 per cent, Dr Peng said. After working his 12-hour
daytime shifts, the doctor spends his evenings researching the disease
and has summarised his observations in a thesis.

The doctors and nurses at his hospital are overwhelmed with patients.
Once they don protective hazmat suits, they go without food, drink and
bathroom breaks for their entire shifts. That's because there aren't
enough of the suits for a mid-shift change, he said. [...]

Caixin: Based on your clinical experience, what's the disease
progression of the new coronavirus?

Peng: ... I've observed that the breakout period of the novel
coronavirus tends to be three weeks, from the onset of symptoms to
developing difficulties breathing. Basically going from mild to severe
symptoms takes about a week. There are all sorts of mild symptoms:
feebleness, shortness of breath, some people have fevers, some don't.
Based on studies of our 138 cases, the most common symptoms in the first
stage are fever (98.6 per cent of cases), feebleness (69.6 per cent),
cough (59.4 per cent), muscle pains (34.8 per cent), difficulties
breathing (31.2%), while less common symptoms include headaches,
dizziness, stomach pain, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting.

But some patients who enter the second week will suddenly get worse. At
this stage, people should go to the hospital. The elderly with
underlying conditions may develop complications; some may need
machine-assisted respiration. When the body's other organs start to
fail, that's when it becomes severe, while those with strong immune
systems see their symptoms decrease in severity at this stage and
gradually recover. So the second week is what determines whether the
illness becomes critical.

The third week determines whether critical illness leads to death. Some
in critical condition who receive treatment can raise their level of
lymphocytes, a type of white blood cell, and see an improvement in their
immune systems, and have been brought back, so to speak. But those whose
lymphocyte numbers continue to decline, those whose immune systems are
destroyed in the end, experience multiple organ failure and die.

For most, the illness is over in two weeks, whereas for those for whom
the illness becomes severe, if they can survive three weeks, they're
good. Those that can't will die in three weeks. [...]

(5) Wuhan coronavirus spreads by aerosol transmission (Air
Conditioning?); but killed by Bleach

From: Matthew Mitchell <matthewwinstonmitchell@yahoo.com.au>

Not wanting to be alarmist, but it might help to be psychologically
prepared. This is guy is a published research immunologist, and based on
his reports we might all be doing a lot more local production of food
and goods soon:

New Research Suggests The Coronavirus May Be Far Worse Than We Thought

Chris Martin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4Ho96UKfYA

Chinese officials are now warning the Wuhan coronavirus may spread by
aerosol transmission.

We have know it spreads via fomites contained in mucus-based globules,
spread by coughing, sneezing, etc.

But if it also transmits from human to human via aerosol means, it's
likely FAR more contagious than previously feared.

Many of the most contagious diseases, like measles, spread as aerosols
-- tiny particles that hang in the air for a protracted time.

If confirmed, this makes a very bad situation substantially worse.

And adding to the hit parade of bad news, recent research shows that
coronavirus particles can survive on surfaces for up to 5-9 days. At
least, the good news is that chlorine-based cleaners (like simple
bleach) appear effective at killing the virus within 1 minute.

So, again, good hygiene practices are our best defense here. Avoid
exposure, and when in public areas, protect your eyes/nose/mouth/skin,
and sanitize often.

Meanwhile, the data shows the virus continues to spread around the
world. And we see more indirect evidence that the infected and fatality
data out of China may be much higher than is what's being reported.

Folks, this virus is a beast.

(6) Eighty cities in China are under lockdown, including Beijing

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/were-totally-dark-japan-not-doing-enough-contain-outbreak-diamond-princess-passengers

Beijing Under Partial Lock Down As Virus Death Toll Tops 900; More  Than
40,000 Infected

by Tyler Durden

Sun, 02/09/2020 - 13:10

Update (2240ET): And so the epidemic reaches China's capital Beijing. As
gnews reports, as the coronavirus spreads from Wuhan, China has been
implementing "closed management" by putting 80 cities under lockdown,
and on Monday, Beijing authorities also issued a "Strict Closed
Management of Residential Communities" in an epidemic prevention and
control announcement (link here). It is an official declaration that
Beijing, the country’s capital city of China, is now under lockdown.

According to the notice, Beijing will further enforce "community closed
management" in a strict manner. Outside vehicles and personnel are not
allowed to enter the city. People arriving in Beijing must also report
their health status and complete the registration of personal information.

Those, who have left the epidemic area or have physical contact with
persons in the epidemic area within 14 days of their arrival at Beijing,
shall be inspected or quarantined at home in accordance with the
regulations. They should take the initiative to report their health
conditions, and cooperate with relevant management services. They shall
not go out. Anyone who refuses to accept epidemic prevention measures
such as medical observation and home quarantine constitutes a violation
of public security management and shall be severely punished by the
public security bureau according to the law.

In addition, all public places in the Beijing community that are not
essential for people’s living are closed. All agencies and enterprises
must strictly strengthen body temperature monitoring. Housing agencies
and landlords in Beijing must provide local government with information
on rental houses and tenants. This is a measure for epidemic prevention.
[...]


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