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by peterburkimsher 1609 days ago
Anecdata, not sure who to report this to for investigative purposes:

1. Teresa from Rako Science saliva testing station used to work as Air New Zealand cabin crew. With 5 other crew members, they went to Shanghai, and also stayed in the Grand Hyatt hotel opposite Taipei 101 in October 2019.

They went to a nearby night market, presumably Taipei Hwahsi Tourist Night Market (which I went to on 2009-09-04, and had a lovely time).

After that visit, they all had a respiratory infection similar to a bad flu, which didn't clear up after the doctor provided steroids and iron supplements, and they have had recurrences since then, roughly every 4 months.

They're pretty sure in retrospect that they know what it was.

To my knowledge, this is earlier than any confirmed WHO reports, at least as far as Wikipedia goes.

2. Mum reports that mum & dad's neighbours also report a bad flu in October/November 2019 in the Pays de Gex, near Geneva, Switzerland.

2 comments

«bad flu» -> «swine flu»
This is nonsense. There are plenty of diseases with similar symptoms.

I will report your post as probable astroturfing, the weird detail without actual evidence or source and pointing to Taipei suggests makes evident your motives. There is no substance or value to this post, except to.spread unfounded and untraceable conspiracy theories.

Apparently you don't realize this, but peterburkimsher has some personal connections to Taiwan: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17400350

I'd like to say that jumping from a single post to conclusions about the posters motives makes something evident about you, but I don't feel like looking at your posting history to find out what it could be.