[DEPcom]

I am reviewing the numbers on Lombardy. I am beginning to believe my numbers are low, real low. I will see if I can talk to someone on Ham Radio this week to confirm the stuff I am reading online. The articles and twitter post are like a sci-fi movie..

The Worldometer that I just started using today is confirming your numbers.

I do think we have the same strain as Italy in the Southeast, we have a number of people infected when they visited Italy and return to the USA.

As far as our local heath system, the workers are very concern there.

Does South Korea have the same strain as Italy? I think South Korea has S and Italy has the L strain. I have not seen any articles talking about strains in either country. L was the deadly one in Wuhan.

[Myrddin]

I've hardly used my DMR capability, but did have good success chatting with people from Australia, England and Israel on the same "channel" one evening. The connections are very stable compared to HF. It's dirt cheap to setup.

[calenel]

Welcome to the party, Pal!

It does sound like stuff out of a sci-fi movie. It’s hard to believe this can really happen, which is why some people are having such a hard time processing it, I think.

If the strains truly have different lethality that would explain some things. But I haven’t drilled down into that stuff, yet.

[justa-hairyape]

S-CoV (OG Bat) China, South Korea, Western US

G-CoV (morph) North Europe, Russia

V-CoV (L-CoV) Singapore, France, Italy, Latin America

So we need South Korean techniques in West and Singapore techniques in east and latin America.