Posted on 02/23/2020 1:57:16 PM PST by Vermont Lt
Figured we would start numbering the threads.
Some points to keep in mind:
1. This thing is not “just the flu.” 2. 1/10th of the worlds population is in some sort of lockdown. 3. Generally, we don’t buy the Chinese numbers But if anything they are low. 4. Everyone is welcome to post, but don’t bore us with your “you are panicking” posts. They are tedious.
It’s Sunday night and the Walking Dead is back. Let’s talk Coronavirus.
I know SAS Shoes are still made in USA. What other brands are Not made in China?
New Balance. They are made in MA.
Walmart and some grocery stores have those #10 bulk sized cans of stuff and usually have potato flakes. They’re half way decent.
No (NOT trying to get into an argument here!), my “80%” is looking at it entirely differently.
I just looked this up: (On the high end of consumer products) Toyota says an average car uses 30,000 individual parts.
https://www.toyota.co.jp/en/kids/faq/d/01/04/
Now, of course a lot of these, like the screw you mentioned, will be used in multiples - some in pretty decent quantities. But I’m betting there are at least 1000 different parts in an average car. Probably more like 5000. Even some of the screws are “custom” (may or may not really need to be). But - let’s go with 1000 different parts. (300 of this screw, one of that panel, 4 of that ring = “3 different parts”.)
So, even if the car is only 28% Chinese parts (by number of different parts, as opposed to, say, weight), that’s 280 different Chinese parts, a lot of them custom (for that mfgr., if not the car model). The vast majority have to be installed “when they have to be installed in production.” Any one of that majority of the 280 can shut some aspect of production down until supply can be re-established.
Just for fun, where does the mfgr. put all the other parts that ARE still en route, but can’t be run when they come in?
Dried mashed potatoes are pretty good to thicken stew. And dont get me started on shepherds pie. Stock up St. Patrick’s day is around the corner.
There used to be a Made in USA website.
Will have to check that out, later.
I don’t eat potatoes, but I recently dehydrated about 10 lbs of cauliflower florets...which I sub for potatoes.
But, you’re right....instant mashers make great thickener for soups/stews.
BNO Newsroom
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NEW: Kuwait bans all flights to and from Iraq due to coronavirus, says foreigners who were recently in Iraq will be denied entry
Smoking kills six million people a year, accounting for one in 10 deaths among adults worldwide. Without urgent action, tobacco use will claim one billion lives this century!
This is not an attempt to say don’t worry about this virus, smoking kills way more, no, the story is if you smoke you’re probably in for a fight for your very life if you get Coronavirus.
China has the most tobacco users (300.8 million), followed by India (274.9 million). China has the most smokers (300.7 million), while India has the most smokeless tobacco users (205.9 million).
Russia has the highest smoking rate among men (60.2 percent). Particularly alarming is the fact that the percentage of Russian youth who smoke (both male and female, ages 15 to 19) is higher than in any other country.
I assumed, too. You know what they say about assuming.
Ashford and St Peter’s Hospital operating under Pre Code Black 24th February 2020
The Ashford and St Peter’s hospital is operating under a precode Black we can reveal.
The 400 beds hospital in Chertsey, Surrey offers a wide range of acute care services, including an Accident & Emergency department.
The pre Code black was brought in place as the system is under severe pressure and is unable to deliver certain actions and comprehensive emergency care. It also means there is potential for emergency care and safety to be compromised.
A number of 12 hours breaches were reported over the weekend revealed our hospital source who has asked not to be name. An emergency crisis meeting was called by Senior managers at the site this morning bring into force the alert.
Routine hospital appointments are being delayed to free up capacity for the sickest patients. Our Source has further revealed drastic step of extending the cancellation of non-urgent operations to include hundreds of minor procedures may also be brought into force this month.
The hospital is full capacity. Patients arriving at Accident and Emergency may have have to be taken to another hospital. The NHS Trust have been approached for comment.
Smart move Kuwait. I think airline travel should be banned for the next three months world wide except for emergency travel.
Sudan-(Health) is investigating about (8) foreigners suspected of having (Corona)
Today, 03:16 PM
They stay in a hotel in Khartoum .. (Health) is investigating about (8) foreigners suspected of having (Corona)
Posted 3 hours ago
The Ministry of Health in the state of Khartoum revealed that a medical team sent it to a hotel in Khartoum to investigate the presence of “8” foreign suspects with Corona virus who arrived from China, and the Ministry cut off the absence of any cases of the disease in Sudan.
The director of the General Department of Preventive Medicine d. Muhammad Naqdallah in press statements today “Monday” The temperatures of guests staying in the hotel range between 35_36 degrees, and he confirmed that there are no cases between them.
https://www.sudanakhbar.com/685587
BAGHDAD
Iraq on Monday confirmed the first case of the coronavirus in the country’s Najaf city.
Ridvan Kindi, the head of the Health Department in Najaf city in south of capital Baghdad, said an Iranian student has tested positive for the coronavirus, officially known as COVID-19.
The student was immediately quarantined and necessary measures were taken, Kindi said.
oh boy...a classified briefing..
Manu Raju
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All senators will be briefed tomorrow in classified setting on Coronavirus, per Senate sources. They will hear from officials from a variety of agencies, including HHS, DHS, CDC, NIH and State. It comes as administration preps emergency funding request to deal with outbreak
Coronavirus: seventh victim in Italy, a patient on dialysis. WHO: ‘Very worried’
The quarantined North. No problem for supermarket warehouses. EU, professional response from Italy
ANSA editorial staff 24 February 2020 20:45
There are seven victims in Italy for the coronavirus, six in Lombardy and one in Veneto. The patient transferred from Lodigiano on the weekend tested positive for the Coronavirus swab died at the Sant’Anna hospital in Como. The 62-year-old resident of Castiglione d’Adda, who had already been dialysed, had a number of important past chronic diseases. He had contracted Covid-19 and had been transferred to the Como hospital on the night between Friday and Saturday. This is learned from hospital sources confirmed by the Region.
Another victim of Castiglione d’Adda was 80 years old: he died at the Sacco hospital in Milan. Last Thursday he was taken to hospital in Lodi from 118 for a heart attack, the same day that the 38-year-old who arrived was the first patient tested positive for the virus. The octogenarian was hospitalized in intensive care and then, tested positive for the virus, transferred to the Sacco in Milan where he died. In Lombardy, the number of infected people rose to 172. In Veneto, however, confirmed cases rose to 32
Thanks and thanks for all your posts.
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