Coronavirus daily thread #15

March 12th, 2020

[Mariner]

LT is out today.

Yesterday's thread is here:

http://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3823556/posts?page=1

[RummyChick]

I get a kick out of watching panic buying videos every year during snow storms..as I watch to see the products no one wants even in an apocolypse

just saw one on DM where nobody wanted the brand of crackers

[BobL]

About as useful as my response to it.

[mrsmith]

That’s just not true. We tested, limited entry, traced, everyone who’d been to Wuhan.

Sure, we could have done more, but at diminishing returns.
Though I do think we should have done more.

[ncdrumr]

I think a lot of people’s greatest fear right now is that Trump won’t get re-elected because of this.

Except that this whole thing completely proves Trump is correct on the border issue and on bringing manufacturing back to the U.S.

[greeneyes]

Thanks for the ping.

[RummyChick]

tom does look good but he doesnt have his make up on

[DouglasKC]

Yes, from an epidemiological point of view, it’s unfortunate, but the time for action is early, when action is likely to be mistaken for overreaction. And when the action works, and prevents the spread of the disease, people a month from now will say “See?! We overreacted!” Just like Y2K. Because all the preparation work was successful, those who literally don’t know what they’re talking about say Y2K was a hoax, too. It’s a no-win situation for those who really do know what they’re talking about.

That's exactly right. I was in the IT field then over two companies and I made darn sure that everything we had and all our vendors were y2k compliant...and so did every IT pro around the world. WE stopped Y2K.

[Jane Long]

Agree.

[blueplum]

SEATTLE:

first person account

‘I’m A 42-Year-Old Woman Who Got The New Coronavirus. This Has Been The Hardest Part.’

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/voices/im-a-42-year-old-woman-who-got-the-new-coronavirus-this-has-been-the-hardest-part/ar-BB1178EI?ocid=spartanntp

[caww]

Did you see Geraldo and Bonginio go head to head tonight on Fox. Both got ‘hot’. Bongino won that but not without some nasty exchanges.

[grey_whiskers]

From a poster on Instapundit:
Herschel Smith Katybuzz • 19 minutes ago

Oh, it was engineered alright. At UNC-Chapel Hill, with the assistance of a Chi-com.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4797993/

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/11/151110115711.htm

Note the wording; “ ...we generated and characterized a chimeric virus.” She didn’t just study it, she generated it.

Next up, I’ll leave you to do the research about study of this virus in Canada by the same Chinese lady, and the fact that she had her badge pulled and was ejected from the country, with the Canadian police still in the active investigation mode.

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[cgbg]

Lookner getting tired—he started looking for the CDC total test number.

If he wasn’t so burned out he would remember that many states are not reporting the testing numbers to anyone.
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Lookner update—all Michigan schools closed.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Not so much the number of deaths, but that the number of serious cases could pile on in a relatively short period of time, should we go the “flu bro” route, overwhelming our health systems like in Italy. Fortunately, our average age is lower and we have a good health baseline, in spite of all the obesity, so I suspect percentage of serious cases will be lower, no more than 10 percent, IMO.

[mrsmith]

Well put.
Our Founders knew ‘democracy’ has its faults and limited it in our system.
The ‘obvious’ isn’t always so.

[grey_whiskers]

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

I believe that’s actually 480K deaths, our of 4.8M serious cases. 480M is more than our entire population.

[grey_whiskers]

[caww]

They’re both sick with it Rummy....fevers, chills, body aches. so they have it....Test positive was done after they got ill.

[Jane Long]

Are they safe in their bunker?

Or, is their bunker in NZ?

I can’t keep up with all of the Rich and Famous bunkers.

[cgbg]

10 percent serious hospitalization won’t save us.

5 percent serious hospitalization won’t save us.

Run the numbers....