[FES0844]

None in Israel.

[KosmicKitty]

Seems to have a fairly high survival rate.

[DCBryan1]

Senators are about to find out 8,000,000 infected and 270,000 dead......

[duckman]

Hey WHO, do you think it’s a pandemic yet?

[chris37]

If anyone can determine this to be a manufactured bioweapon, I think China should be nuked.

[familyop]

Italy Coronavirus Death Toll Rises to Seven as Confirmed Cases Stand at 283
https://www.breitbart.com/health/2020/02/25/italy-coronavirus-death-toll-rises-to-seven-as-confirmed-cases-stand-at-283/

[Carriage Hill]

Add 3-to-6 000s to those numbers, and they’ll be more accurate.

[Rappini]

The Maharishi made a good point yesterday, that the Chicom leader found a way to shut down Hong Kong and the protest. Now they can pull anyone they want off the street.

[allendale]

There is something very interesting about the outbreak in Italy. The region of Italy where the outbreak is centered has a high population of Chinese immigrants and guest workers who provide much of the labor for the garment industry. Are the Italians who are becoming infected and seriously ill really Chinese? Not politically correct to ask or speculate. However it may very well be that Caucasians and Africans are not as susceptible for infection or serious disease as are genetic Asiatics. That is not a narrative that WHO wants propagated.

Genetic susceptibilities of a given population determine where and to what extent any given epidemic will extend. It would appear that some Persians have the genetic susceptibility to COVID-19.

[HamiltonJay]

In the same amount of time more than 8200 people have died in the US alone from Influenza A alone....

[Bogey78O]

Seems like the mortality rate is 1-3%. The flu is around 0.05%

Not good.

Also, flu has a transmission window of about 1-3 days. A person can only spread it before being symptomatic for a day or two. Then they suffer for about 3-5 days and then it’s a short recovery for most people. The Coronavirus seems to hit a person for longer and has a longer window.

Sure, you’ll likely survive but you’ll be waylaid for a week or two easily. With apparently only 80% of infections being considered mild and the other 20% requiring medical treatment.

The bad thing about this virus seems to be how subtle and long lasting it is.

[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.

[jacknhoo]

So it’s about 25 times more deadly than the 2019-20 flu, so far.

[jimmygrace]

Iran seems to have an unusually high death rate... Maybe some of those were hastened along, or maybe it was a cover for the murder of dissidents?

[samtheman]

Just to provide some historical context, and to show how NOT to react to an epidemic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDY5COg2P2c

An amazing video documenting the amazing story of the most horrible disease of modern times.