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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCORONAVIRUS could spread into a global pandemic due to a freak slump in solar activity:experts
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1232974/coronavirus-china-virus-pandemic-WHO"The deepest sunspot minimum for more than a century is about to force the Sun into partial hibernation, they say. Public health authorities have been warned to be vigilant with the phenomenon linked to historic viral pandemics. Previously unseen strains could emerge through the coming months while existing ones turn super-virulent, according to a report in Current Science. The news comes as Coronavirus rips through China, rapidly infecting more than 800 people..."
Some True Woo. Chilling information indeed.
Thyla
(791 posts)defacto7
(13,485 posts)spot free and/or dormant. We have very close to the highest level of cosmic rays recorded during the space age right now and it's expected to surpass that record. It effects many things including cancer rates and heart rythme. Maybe this as well? Haven't heard this one until now.
mrs_p
(3,014 posts)Dealing with decreased UV rays. Lol.
MyNameGoesHere
(7,638 posts)Some people might survive.
matt819
(10,749 posts)And I can just imagine how that goes.
librechik
(30,674 posts)matt819
(10,749 posts)but out of anyone's control, what with the sunspot thing and all.
And his cultists will think that's fine and then blame the deep state on affecting sunspot activity.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Trump and his Fox minions are already turning themselves inside out to blame China for Covid-19. Who knew the Chinese had the time for that, what with their climate change hoax? And now, the Chinese are messing with solar activity! Very thorough, these hoaxsters.
Chainfire
(17,530 posts)I have been feeling a little under the weather, I guess it is those damn sunspots again.
WhiskeyWulf
(569 posts)Somebody should suggest it to him . . .