Posted on 02/28/2020 3:27:01 PM PST by 11th_VA
“It killed 50 million people worldwide, or about a third of the world’s population.”
LOL, you might want to check that stat. The world’s population was a bit more than 50 million in 1918 and the mortality rate for the Spanish Flu was not 33%.
LOL!!!
Yeah my gut feeling is grocery stores are going to be a big spreader of the virus, been paying attention to all the surfaces I have to touch to shop at Walmart or similar store, Any way the one surface that I would guess that gets touched the most is the door handle to the glass display cases for milk, orange juice, frozen foods etc. The only thing that might surpass those door handles are the self serve check out counters. These surfaces are going to be in the top 10 surfaces for the spread of the virus. Gas station pumps handles might surpass them on ranking though.
The 1918 influenza pandemic was the most severe pandemic in recent history. It was caused by an H1N1 virus with genes of avian origin. Although there is not universal consensus regarding where the virus originated, it spread worldwide during 1918-1919. In the United States, it was first identified in military personnel in spring 1918. It is estimated that about 500 million people or one-third of the world’s population became infected with this virus. The number of deaths was estimated to be at least 50 million worldwide with about 675,000 occurring in the United States.
California’s politicized health departments failing the citizens!
Who’s a thunk it?
Yes, that should be a big clue to the “it’s just a flu” and “nothing-burger” people. We have no idea how many people are already infected. We aren’t testing many yet. Early stages for us. Hope none of the denial morons prevent anyone from preparing for “shelter in place” for a few weeks. Blood on their hands if so.
if you shake a haystack and a needle falls out, odds are that haystack is rife with needles.
Once they actually start testing we’ll see how many needles they find.
Shouldn’t need testing since many more of the “needles” should be ill enough to require hospitalization. Yet they are not. Now would that be?
Simple - there aren’t enough cases that bad (yet, perhaps) to stick out from the general secondary effects of the ongoing flu season. So it is likely that many cases of Wuhan corona virus thus far have gone under the radar. There are plenty of reports of pneumonia cases that are flu-negative. Are they corona virus cases? Won’t know until they go back and test.
Exactly.
While this isn’t the end of humanity, doing nothing is foolish.
While this has been ramping up overseas and we haven’t been testing for it here, I’ve been topping off supplies just in case. Three months seems like a good number. If nothing happens I have less shopping to do for a few months.
Will run like wild fire thru the homeless drug addicts and illegals, that’s about 3 quarters of the rat state
This patient is at Mountain View’s El Camino Hospital. That’s our local hospital and where our three kids were born. This is starting to hit home.
The Bay Area has a HUGE Chinese population. How many went to China to visit relatives for New Years? How many Chinese citizens visited their California relatives for New Years? New Years holiday travel seems to be real big with the Chinese. I would not doubt there are a lot of infections baking in the Bay Area and the oven timer is about to go “DING.”
The Spanish Flu in 1918 “killed about a third of the world’s population”?
You may want to recheck your numbers. You sound like Joe Biden saying 150 million Americans were killed.
I was counting the surfaces I touched in a quick trip to the hardware store this afternoon. Then I counted all the surfaces I contacted getting into my car and then into the house. It isn’t pretty.
Our daughter’s boyfriend just bought a lot of gloves to use to go shopping and elsewhere. BUT, when and where do you dispose of them? Before getting into your car? Or outside the front door of your house? Are used gloves now going to become like used needles all over the place?
What sort of incubation period are we looking at?
If you use full-service checkout, you put your stuff on the conveyor belt which has been full of products all day long, products handled by every customer who went through that line before you. How often are those conveyor belts sanitized and disinfected? It seems like never.
“I would think if its someone spreading the disease in the state you would have MUCH more than 1 person here and 1 person 100 miles away..the latest case is a 65 yr old from what I hear”
That’s why it’s such bad news.
It means two CLUSTERS have emerged.
There’s likely more considering there’s been no easy criteria by which to test.
You will know it’s serious when they ban celebrity private jet flights. That’s when they will start yammering and howling.
I’ve read the normal span is 4-10 days with possible outliers to 27 days. But there is suspicion that the outliers may be on a second infection and the first infection was asymptomatic.
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