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>**WARNING:** The article you’re about to read is rampant speculation, and it’s based on just one small study. I’m not an expert, nor am I a scientist. I might not even be here, so just zoom in real close on the pixels to find out. The following information might be a warning, or for entertainment purposes only, i.e., if you’re into the macabre and all of the things and stuff worth losing sleepover. All of that said, proceed with an overabundance of caution.

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[**A recent study**](https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.26.919985v1.full) published on January 26, 2020, by the Shanghai East Hospital (an affiliate of Tongji University School of Medicine,) out of Shanghai China, seems to indicate that the novel (2019-nCov) coronavirus identified in Wuhan in December 2019 may be more likely to affect Asians or Asian males.

The sampling of the study's size is extraordinarily small, comprising of only eight individuals; Two white female smokers. One Asian male, a former smoker. And four African American females + one male that never smoked. The study focused on the expression of ACE2 RNA, which is generally considered the enzyme receptor for the Wuhan 2019-nCov.

The study made note of the fact that a <code>"comparison between eight individual samples demonstrated that the Asian male one has an extremely large number of ACE2-expressing cells in the lung."</code> It would seem important to note that there were no female Asians included in the study, nor were there any white males.

The team also <code>"noticed that the only Asian donor (male) has a much higher ACE2-expressing cell ratio than white and African American donors (2.50% vs. 0.47% of all cells)."</code> to which they asserted it <code>"might explain the observation that the new Coronavirus pandemic and previous SARS-Cov pandemic are concentrated in the Asian area."</code> The percentage differential between 0.47 and 2.50 is 431.9%.

A cursory glance at the differential is staggering and might lead one to conclude that the virus is race-specific, targeting mostly only Asians. However, with a lack of a female Asian and seeing as how the subject sampling size is so small and comprised of 75% females, it might also be crucial to consider how many males, regardless of their race, express the enzyme in quantities large enough to merit a high susceptibility.

Considering the source and timing of the study, along with the fact that the CPC rules the mainland with an iron fist; one might consider this information as potential propaganda meant to either save face and temporarily stop the spread of panic, or as a clever means by which to misdirect people, effectively lulling them into a strategic sense of suspended disbelief before the mass culling spreads worldwide.

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