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I was looking up "coronavirus" on google trends. What I saw was a flat 0 except for a blip in late august, and a score of 100 on September 21, 2019 coming from

I was looking up "coronavirus" on google trends. What I saw was a flat 0 except for a blip in late august, and a score of 100 on September 21, 2019 coming from Hubei Province specifically. Those results remained the same for over a month until I posted the above in a hacker news comment. Then I was down voted heavily and the results suddenly changed. I do have a picture of it, because I wanted to share the results with my friend and they dont use social media, so I forwarded a picture. while I agree with the hacker news downvoters (the downvote, hate, hate, unsubscribe, rage, rage, you must be stupid crowd) that this doesn't prove anything, it is certainly part of the evidence building up.

jansan 6y ago
In this Google trends chart, which unfortunately has no data before January 2020, Coronavirus was not a thing until Mid of January: https://www.regenhealthsolutions.info/2020/03/21/google-launches-covid-19-information-resources-website/ https://www.regenhealthsolutions.info/2020/03/21/google-laun...
sampo 6y ago
Here's an article about this: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/long-fuse-big-bang/202005/mysterious-blips-raise-questions-about-covid-19-timeline https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/long-fuse-big-bang/2...
- jchiu1106 6y ago
  Can someone enlighten me: with Google being blocked in China, how the heck does one search the term in Wuhan and had it being recorded by Google? I know people in China can use VPN to search Google, but the recorded IP would be the exit node of the VPN wouldn't it?
fsh 6y ago
Why would people from Wuhan (who speak Chinese) search for "Coronavirus" in English on Google (which is blocked in China)?
- autokad 6y ago
  probably the same reason they are doing it now?
- pvaldes 6y ago
  A plausible explanation is that they had seen the term somewhere and wanted to see what means. Other could be that integrity search databases was compromised somehow and the term was introduced later. I don't know if this is technically feasible or not, but this shouldn't be discarded as a possibility, for sure. And other is what is claimed here is faked up and really never happened.
sizzle 6y ago
Can you please share that screenshot of the Google trends data after that big build up, really interested to see it!
- autokad 6y ago
  sure, is there an anonymous place I can put the screen shot? edit: actually, someone posted a link that had an image that is almost exactly what I had taken: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/long-fuse-big-bang/202005/mysterious-blips-raise-questions-about-covid-19-timeline https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/long-fuse-big-bang/2... I am tired of being downvoted on hn for talking about it though.
  - sizzle 6y ago
    Thanks for the link
three_seagrass 6y ago
Why would you type all that out without sharing the picture? This reads like someone with paranoia spreading unsubstantiated FUD. Either that or you've been sniffing too much Q Anon.

jansan 6y ago

In this Google trends chart, which unfortunately has no data before January 2020, Coronavirus was not a thing until Mid of January: https://www.regenhealthsolutions.info/2020/03/21/google-launches-covid-19-information-resources-website/ https://www.regenhealthsolutions.info/2020/03/21/google-laun...

sampo 6y ago

Here's an article about this: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/long-fuse-big-bang/202005/mysterious-blips-raise-questions-about-covid-19-timeline https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/long-fuse-big-bang/2...

jchiu1106 6y ago
Can someone enlighten me: with Google being blocked in China, how the heck does one search the term in Wuhan and had it being recorded by Google? I know people in China can use VPN to search Google, but the recorded IP would be the exit node of the VPN wouldn't it?

fsh 6y ago

Why would people from Wuhan (who speak Chinese) search for "Coronavirus" in English on Google (which is blocked in China)?

autokad 6y ago
probably the same reason they are doing it now?
pvaldes 6y ago
A plausible explanation is that they had seen the term somewhere and wanted to see what means. Other could be that integrity search databases was compromised somehow and the term was introduced later. I don't know if this is technically feasible or not, but this shouldn't be discarded as a possibility, for sure. And other is what is claimed here is faked up and really never happened.

sizzle 6y ago

Can you please share that screenshot of the Google trends data after that big build up, really interested to see it!

autokad 6y ago
sure, is there an anonymous place I can put the screen shot? edit: actually, someone posted a link that had an image that is almost exactly what I had taken: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/long-fuse-big-bang/202005/mysterious-blips-raise-questions-about-covid-19-timeline https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/long-fuse-big-bang/2... I am tired of being downvoted on hn for talking about it though.
- sizzle 6y ago
  Thanks for the link

three_seagrass 6y ago

Why would you type all that out without sharing the picture? This reads like someone with paranoia spreading unsubstantiated FUD. Either that or you've been sniffing too much Q Anon.