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A month and a half ago, I started seeing strange things pop up on 4chan and Discord. Rumours of an epidemic centered in Wuhan, China. Leaked social media videos of horrible things. Chinese-language posts that allegedly (I don’t speak Chinese) were begging for help.
For a week it was a dumb joke, like any other internet conspiracy theory. But a week later, the rumours didn’t stop.
On January 23rd, 2020, the city of Wuhan was put under lockdown. It was at this moment that I realized this was more than just an internet conspiracy theory.
Of the people I spoke to online about this, many didn’t seem to grasp the severity of the situation. As the Bartlett quote goes: “The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function”. But I knew what I was seeing. Something so bad that the government of China was willing to put a major city on pause for six weeks (at the time of this writing) and counting.
Since then, I’ve been in a state of near constant panic, reading as many daily updates as I can find. There’s a lot of them, and it’s very difficult to tell what is real, what is fake, what is mistaken, what is inaccurate, and what is outright lies. But every day I spend hours filtering through these sources so I can feel ok.
A friend requested that I give him concise daily summaries so he didn’t have to sift through the noise. Another friend asked me to put this somewhere online so he could link to it. So here we are.
An important note: I DO NOT MAKE ANY REPRESENTATION THAT EVERYTHING POSTED HERE IS TRUE. Some of what I post may not be true. I am sifting through rumours and theories so you don’t have to, and I’m not a mind reader. But I promise you, everything I post here, I personally believe to be true, unless I say otherwise.
Do not take my postings as definitive truth and fact. Read everything, this site included, with a critical mind. In this era of fake news it is nearly impossible to have confidence that any given thing is true or not. All we can do is check it by our common sense and decide for ourselves what we think. I think that in the comings weeks and months we are going to see the worst crisis in my life. I want to do my part, however small, to help.
I will likely make generalizations, estimate math, round numbers, and so on. I do not intend to mislead or misreport. If you see anything in my updates that you think is wrong, please contact me and I will correct it.
I will post links to potential medical treatments. I will avoid posting anything I think is obviously false, and I will avoid posting anything that I think is dangerous. However, I will post things that I think show promise and I will post things that I think are low-risk and worth trying even if they don’t work. NOTHING ON THIS SITE IS MEDICAL ADVICE. I AM NOT A DOCTOR, NOT A BIOLOGIST, NOT A CHEMIST. YOU AND YOU ALONE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR DECIDING TO TRY ANY MEDICAL INTERVENTIONS I POST HERE. Some of these posts might be called fake or untrue by other sources. It is up to you what you want to believe, on a case-by-case basis.
I will try my best to be fair, balanced, and neutral, to report the facts as I see them and avoid politics or bias. But this site is my opinion and at times I will be opinionated
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Updated 2020.03.03 - 18:01 CST