Posted on 03/15/2020 9:49:28 AM PDT by Mariner
Thread #16 is below and it ran for two days...
http://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3824270/posts?page=2051
the surface of the pages are like her voice: sandpaper ...
Love these descriptions.
“My proposition is that perhaps China isn’t telling us everything about the virus.”
That’s not the proposition you have stated.
I agree with that statement - deaths are much worse in China than they report.
Did they destroy their own economy to do in President Trump or something like that? I’ll need more than tinfoil to buy that one.
I think all the Iowa cases are older people who were on the same cruise ship that visited Egypt.
US Tests so far by CDC and states: 19,744
Positive Cases: 3,326
New definition of an Irish queer: Someone who prefers health to alcohol.
NYC hospital panics—
Northwell Health, New York’s largest health care provider, cancels all elective surgeries and procedures
https://twitter.com/lookner/status/1239260030903468034
Feel free to let them know they are fearmongers—I am sure they will appreciate your input!
n Mexico we have a culture of a little bit more of hygiene that helps us to limit this kind of transmissions,” he said.”
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like throwing used TP in the waste basket?
In Pence home state they could use your expertise
call the fire dept
March 15, 1:45 p.m.
Ten firefighters from the White River Township Fire Department (WRTFD) have self-quarantined after a medical run Saturday that resulted in the death of a 60-year-old Johnson County man. He showed signs of respiratory distress and symptoms that could be similar to those common with COVID-19. Read more here.
“Okay. But China’s numbers are highly suspect.”
Absolutely. I should have modified “number” with “official”.
Tomorrow the rest of the world will surpass China in official number of deaths. :(
Actually, I don't really have a single thing against Blue Buffalo at all, we bought a bag when he was young and he seemed indifferent. It seems well made.
We buy Abound Salmon Egg Pumpkin Superfood blend and it is the only dry food he will eat.
Wet food, he'd eat a damp sock. 
“Historically, the herd mentality has caused far more deaths than a measure of careful thinking.”
Would have been handy to the Jews in the 1940s if Germans asked themselves ‘why, again, do the Jews need to be exterminated’?
And dumping dirty baby diapers on the pavement in the parking lot.
Better to lose 2 grand than 7 grand and live a nightmare
I agree. Some of this panic is undoubtedly being produced by the way Trump is being portrayed (the usual buffoon, his speeches sucked, blaming him for the lack of tests, etc. I presume). This is not a contradiction of Wu Flu being a serious thing however. These runs on toilet paper, supplements and food, in a sense, are the masses being more sensible than they have in years, IMO.
I don’t trust the media. Most of them I assuming are lying.
I am highly skeptical of government bureaucrats. Many of whom are incompetents or liars or both.
I assume (usually correctly) that most official sources of this sort of information have various agendas which color their information even with good intentions.
Now.....that said....I am 68 & Mrs. Child is 67. Both in good health. Our daughter has been very close friends with someone for 15 years who has been with the NIH for much of that time. This person has a PHD in the relevant research sciences and has traveled all over the world in her capacity with the NIH. Our daughter, who is annoyingly (sometimes) smart, says that this friend (no names) makes her look slow, LOL. This person told her that the severity of the infections damaging lungs is being significantly under reported & wants us to be *very* cautious.
While I am quite skeptical of most sources, I am not so with this person.
Are we panicking? No. But I got a little too close to dying of flu complications in January 2019 after not having had the flu in at least 3 decades. A real bell ringer, I will tell you. So, prudent is the key word in my house right now. I’m doing the online shopping/pickup at Kroger for the time being and time out to fight cabin fever is riding my motorcycle as much as weather permits.
I am very concerned that this is going to tank my business and maybe force me to hit our IRAs which are none too flush.
It will be interesting if Americans can #staythefuckhome as they say.
Right now I do not see anyone chilling out at home. I see a bunch of stupid people running around trying to find toilet paper. All the while doing the very things to spread contamination.
Hang this on President Trump? No...hang it on the American people for being idiots. They were told weeks ago to expect serious disruptions...whay they all waited for the State of Emergency call to go out?
Geez Louise! If we were under a real attack...a lot of people would die from being unprepared. Unprepared by their own choosing and making.
I wouldn’t put it past leftist pols to pump up their numbers. They get more fedgov funds, plus things look more dire which they figure will hurt Trump.
7.5 percent official death rate. Probably lower, due to numerous undiagnosed, mild cases since it’s obviously running wild over there.
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