[RummyChick]

If anyone trades stocks I got in on APT who makes masks when this first started breaking.

No idea if the stock has run it’s course so may be too late to enter.

I haven’t sold yet since I don’t think full panic has set in yet.

I think more panic to come.

[null and void]

Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.

[Biggirl]

Is this an every 100 year epidemic?

[bgill]

https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/indiana-family-in-the-middle-of-coronavirus-health-emergency/2206329/

An Indiana family is over there. Hope they don’t decided to bring it back with them.

[Herodes]

Caused by Global Warming. This can be fixed with a healthy Carbon Tax.

[real saxophonist]

In college, the Wind Ensemble had an opportunity to do a little tour of China.
I said Nope, y'all are going without me.

A couple of others also didn't go, but I was the most outspoken (imagine that) about it.

Guess who wasn't in Wind Ensemble the following year.

[HangnJudge]

...”The immediate risk to the U.S. public is low at this time,”

Define “Immediate”

[Labyrinthos]

The death toll so far is less than a weekend’s worth of violence in Chicago.

[bgill]

Washington, Texas, Tennessee, Illinois, California.

Nicely spread out. All they need is one on the east coast.

[wastedyears]

"The immediate risk to the U.S. public is low at this time," Messonnier said.

When you can go around the world in a relatively short amount of time, the risk is not low. We're one patient zero away from a pandemic that could kill billions.

[olesigh]

yesterday passenger flying from Mexico City to LA diagnosed with the virus after deplaning at LAX.