Coronavirus Live Thread. No 12

3/8/2020

[Vermont Lt]

Continuation of the thread.

[BenLurkin]

“A period of time”

https://webmail.lerctr.org/~transit/healy/offsides2.wav

[calenel]

“30 days of his medicine is $4300”

Yikes. Can you find a more affordable alternative? Or will you have to take your chances going to the pharmacy? There must be a compromise solution.

[Jane Long]

Seven cruise ships...corona boats, as your link calls them.

[abigkahuna]

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[blueplum]

seven cruise ships on the seven seas

[Jane Long]

Lockner is upset our government can’t tell us how many have been tested.

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So is hubby.

He kept asking VP, at today’s presser, for more numbers...of those tested, capability of testing, etc.

[mrsmith]

“Mongolia locks down cities after reporting first COVID-19 case”
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/coronavirus-mongolia-lock-down-first-covid-19-case-12520786#.XmcNHzwVKHU.twitter

[Jane Long]

LOL....so true.

Please define ‘a period of time’ Dr Nan!!

[cgbg]

CA has 10K people ready to be tested—a good chunk of that could happen the rest of this week.

Then the CA positive numbers will probably skyrocket.

[calenel]

Maybe they haven’t unwelded all the doors, yet.

[justa-hairyape]

Problem is getting to factory. Only 40 % can I heard. And then they are not allowed into housing near factory. Sleeping under bridges and such.

[Karl Spooner]

Want to protect yourself from the Wuhan/China virus: wash your hands and don't touch your face, nose, ears or mouth with unclean hands.

That's the reason I use chlorine dioxide for a hand, face and general purpose sanitizer. It has long residual effects because it is like a liquidized gas that can last for several hours. Safe on skin, even at relatively high mixtures (I use 20 drops in a 2 ounce mist bottle that I carry around). You can purify a gallon of drinking water with just 3 drops to give you an idea.

[Jane Long]

I would suggest that you post that NY Post/CDC article as a separate thread, but you would need to don your flame suit, first....too much flak from the flubros. It would be considered a Revolutionary act!

[cgbg]

Any form of “screening” should just be testing. When enough tests are available, hopefully they go that route.

If you are negative, you get to work!

[Myrddin]

No DMR repeaters in Pocatello. openSPOT or nothing. Plenty of real DMR repeaters in San Diego, but I don't live there anymore. No desire to operate the only DMR repeater in southeast Idaho. It's 2m VHF or bust. I purchased a Yaesu 2980 for emergency services. Pragmatic. It remains to be seen how ham radio will figure into the corona virus events.

[Jane Long]

😂 😱

[blueplum]

that explains why the chicoms posted just 19 cases today, but the log doesn’t lie - it’s been flatlined since Mar 1. Most likely artificially.

[cgbg]

When the Chicoms actually go back the work, the virus will explode out of its cage.

They have contained it—until containment ends.

They have zero basis for believing otherwise.

[usconservative]

I have 2m/70cm and DMR capabilities on both. I'm also an HF guy stuck living in a townhome so I've had to learn how to make attic wire antenna's. They actually work as long as your attic is high enough up (mine is.)

VHF/UHF is good in the short term to get around the local communications issues, if you want to know what's going on in the rest of the world unfiltered, HF is the only way IMO.

[BenLurkin]

I think VermontLt has the right idea — to consolidate WuFlu articles in a single thread as much as possible.

That way people interested in the topic have a single go-to source for the latest information, and if news items get repeated as they appear in different outlets with varying headlines, there is less congestion of the main forums.