Covid 19 - It would not hit the USA

When the coronavirus first Wuhan, China, there was this air of arrogance in the West, particularly the USA. It would not happen to us, it is a China problem. And so they went about attacking China and smearing China in every possible way they could. And as the problem grows daily, the West started to turn racists and there were many racist attacks against anyone looking Chinese in western countries, including the US of course. And one white asshole wrote and reported in another racist main media, the Wall Street Journal with the heading China is the New Sick Man of Asia, thinking it was very fun, and defended by the equally racist American govt as freedom of speech.

So it would not happen to the West, not to the USA. All the Swine Fever, Bird Flu. SARS and now Covid19 would only happen to China, not any other slum and filthy third world countries and definitely not Europe and the USA. The picture is changing and turning ugly with South Korea and Italy and Iran as the new centres of Covid19 epidemic. And the US is still smarting that they have very few cases, nothing to worry about. The latest, a Californian has been infected but with no travel record to China or other worse hit countries. Two in Washington state also infected and also had no contacts with foreigners or been to affected places. These cases look like indigenous virus found in the USA. Perhaps one of the reasons why so few cases were found in the US is because they have only conducted screening on about 400 individuals as at 25 Feb 20. The rest of the Americans were not tested.

It would not hit the USA. One month after the news of Wuhan epidemic, most Asian stock markets started to fall sharply, but not the European stock markets or New York.  They are immuned from this Wuhan virus, nothing to worry about, for reasons they know best. This virus only attacks Chinese perhaps or just Asians.

Nevermind the Covid19 virus. On 24 Feb, finally the impact of Covid19 hit the USA when Dow Industrial index fell more than 1,000 points. It did not stop there and the worse was on 27 Feb when it was -1190 points, the biggest one day fall in the history of American stock market.  Last week alone US 3.5 trillion dollars were wiped out from the American stock market alone. All the life long savings, pension funds, whatever funds, took a big hit. No, the Covid19 virus would not hit the Americans, it just did a nuclear thing, to wipe out the stock market. No one American is spared from this onslaught. The one who laughs last laughs loudest.

Thank God it is finally happening. And the story is just being written. The ink has not dried yet and many more chapters to come before the end.