Posted on 03/10/2020 5:22:41 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
Continuation of the thread.
Please use this thread to consolidate the discussion and stories.
WUHAN CORONAVIRUS UPDATE: Italians barred from Austria to stop spread.
Global coronavirus cases exceed 114,000.
As Italy locks down 60 million people over coronavirus, parts of China return to normalcy.
China’s President Xi visits Wuhan as number of new coronavirus cases tumbles.
D.C.-area coronavirus cases spike; hundreds of churchgoers told to quarantine.
Pelosi says Dem coronavirus package could be released this week, as Schumer attacks Trump.
Iran Coronavirus Deaths Reach 291, Cases at More Than 8,000: Health Ministry.
South Korea reports fewer than 150 new coronavirus cases.
Freezer sales rocket amid coronavirus stockpiling.
Spirit abandons 2020 forecast due to coronavirus outbreak.
RBS to allow customers to defer mortgage payments.
Apple reportedly offers retail workers unlimited sick leave for coronavirus symptoms.
Physician on coronavirus: We must ‘brace for a three-month problem.’
American Airlines To Cut Domestic, International Capacity Due To Coronavirus.
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As Beijing claims credit for beating coronavirus, many Chinese are outraged: ‘Fake! It’s all fake!’ https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-03-09/china-boasts-abroad-of-victory-over-coronavirus-as-quarantine-hotel-collapses-and-domestic-anger-simmers
She’s right. The creepiest of all was Azar—the former CEO of Eli Lilly.
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NHS England has confirmed the sixth death in the UK relating to COVID-19 coronavirus
Good point. Cobb is majority share holder though.
Here’s just a sampling of some of the stuff I’ve read online or seen TV over the past day. And from major news outlets.
Young children with their robust immune systems are more able to fight off the virus vs young children and older adults are the most vulnerable.
Patient in rest home tested corona virus free, but then within one hour was in full respiratory distress from the virus vs virus has incubation time of two to fourteen days.
35 year old male doctor in hospital bed saying he never smoked, in excellent health says his days are numbered because he is covid 19 positive vs another male, 67 years old, had it and said it was a 2 on a scale of 10. Less that dealing with a common cold. His wife still not infected, and they were together all the time.
The virus is spread 14 feet from coughing.
It lingers in the air 30 minutes.
This guy caught it at a medical conference near Times Square.
If Trump had been tested, they would attack him for that, and call him selfish.
I don’t know because the messaging is vague, but I do think some of the officials (like Cuomo) have hinting at large scale quarantines.
I think states will be handling this differently, unless an order comes down from the top
I think it’s the degree of exposure that determines what happens.
A few drops of the virus, the body can handle, but if you are exposed to a certain amount it overwhelms the body.
That’s why staying out of crowds is crucial.
What are the odds of food riots?
Young people - thank God - can fight it. They Beyoncé spreaders to parents and grandparents.
We also need to pray this doesn’t mutate. That’s what the Spanish flu did and it killed 675,000 Americans, including many in my family.
The stories and contradictions are not new.
On the thread there are links going back into January.
Go back and read the stuff from China.
90% of “new” studies are not new. They were discussed weeks ago. The truly terrifying stuff—the reinfection rate—has been dismissed in the west. Until a couple of weeks from now that pops back up.
The real fun is when the L and S Variants get mixed up in the population. One is a weaker version. The other is what is in Italy. When those show up in the US, watch the fear spike again.
When those show up...the markets will tank below 20,000. Not in a day. And not tomorrow. But in a few weeks.
But yeah, Xi walked his Winnie the Pooh ass around Wuhan today. I noticed, he still wore a mask.
so far, we’ve had home quarantine, usually after a visit to a foreign country or to a hospital that sends you home because you’re not sick enough yet, military quarantine and hospital isolation. The first two options don’t require several dozen health care workers. The first two options lighten the load on the hospitals. If you throw quarantine out the window, you’ll have mobbed ERs like Wuhan, everybody running at the first sniffle or sneeze, demanding to be tested Now. Quarantine helps moderate the load on the hospitals.
“Five to seven days” confidence works if you know the day you get infected and that is an impossibility to be discovered only by hindsight. As for ‘available testing’, Calif alone has 36 million people. At two tests per person for nasal and throat that’s 72million tests, just to start, IF everyone could be swabbed on the same day. And then exactly 5 days later, another 72 million tests for that ‘confidence’. So I’m not understanding the logic of your argument in the least. Much less the flippant belief that there is ‘readily available testing’ right now for 360 million people.
Hi all,
My first time in this thread, but have been watching intently since first posted on FR.
I live in one the most populated areas of my state. My wife is very high risk to respiratory diseases, me very rarely sick. She is on a z-pack at least twice a year.
We also bought a cabin in the woods a few years back for just such a situation. Its near Canada and very remote.
I cant really believe this is happening, but my wife has agreed we should bug out... if we need to.
Because she does not read FR I can say I am very proud of her. We had very candid discussions about our options and world news etc. And from someone who did not know what was going on 10 years ago to being informed on world events, and not just the virus was very refreshing.
Any ways we have decided that bugging out is our best way to protect her.
Money is tighter than in any point in our marriage, so I am on a STRICT budget of $100’s at any point in time, very low income flow. We are fairly prepared, but the cabin is a mile in on snow shows at this point, so using rent-a-space to start prepositioning needed provisions and supply’s.
On my latest information, my time line is:
Earliest estimate of US being out of beds May 2.
Two week incubation period April 15 - we need to be in a bubble by this point.
Cases are starting to pop up in Massachusetts, so I put the near limit at where she is seriously worried about going to work. Two weeks or more in the future. So I expect to leave somewhere between March 24 and April 15 if this does proceed to become a pandemic. Sooner if needed.
There is a great hospital within 20 minutes of the cabin.
I can work remotely, so will have an income, her no.
I get to live in a cabin in the woods for at least a month and carry a rifle every day, so there is that...
Testing snafu is ridiculous.
If warm weather lifts this plague like the hand of God,
their delays may not be critical, but if it keeps spreading
at the trot it’s on, we are in for Trouble (note the “T”)
From the link, it says 6 confirmed and 11 presumptive positive. I thought there was 11 total? Because this would be closer to 17 total (all the presumptive sure ending up confirmed)
It has already split into two variants.
What folks don’t realize about the 1918 Pandemic is that it went around the world at least three times.
Each time, it was worse than the first time. Coronaviruses do that—they are terrible to pin down for a vaccine.
The first time around it came for the old and infirm. The second time, in later 1918, it decimated the trenches in the war (it was a HUGE factor in the armistice—which is odd that it is often overlooked.) The third time it took all the other categories.
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