Posted on 03/20/2020 11:06:55 AM PDT by Mariner
Thread #21 here:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3826151/posts?page=1
Your husband's a wise man... he's striking a sane balance. As far as pollen season? A doctor's note saying the person had been tested and found negative should work. Life's a balance of risks...we're just upping the scale a little. Kudos to your husband.
In a lawsuit filed Thursday, attorney Matthew Moore, of Boca Raton, Florida’s The Berman Law Group, alleged China’s failure to report and contain the virus more quickly, or disclose the actual number of cases, created “essentially a giant Petri dish” in the region near Wuhan, sparking the global COVID-19 outbreak. The case alleges claims of negligence, emotional distress, public nuisance and strict liability for “conducting ultrahazardous activity.”
“The PRC and the other defendants knew that COVID-19 was dangerous and capable of causing a pandemic, yet slowly acted, proverbially put their head in the sand, and/or covered it up for their own economic self-interest,” the complaint says. “The defendants’ conduct has caused and will continue to cause personal injuries and deaths, as well as other damages.”
AFAIK, the maximum incubation time is 28-30 days, but anything over 14 days is rare.
*** Ohio ****
Live coverage done for today.
247 confirmed, 3 dead. Ohio Emergency Center Ohio.
Yeah, I agree, Firebrand won this one... big time.
And you’re right too about cooking at home. But that said life’s a balance of competing risks and the challenge on the table before us is to find a new balance to keep our families safe AND our country and jobs intact...
OTOH, junkies who can't get their usual fixes, because the drug labs in Mexico can't get shipments of ingredients from China, will be a real problem. One of my friends quipped that this is why people are buying guns for protection from the virus - it's really for protection for junkies going nuts.
That’s 53, 578 cases, 4,825 deaths (hard to read)
Ohio mental health director gave a pep talk from home during the live press conference
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Second Whatcon County COVID death reported
Calvin Bratt editor lyndentribune.com Mar 21, 2020 Updated 33 min ago
WHATCOM — A second COVID-19 death in the county was reported at a Saturday morning news conference of Whatcom Unified Command on the coronovirus pandemic.
The individual was a man in his 80s who was tested before he passed away at his home on Friday, March 20, health authorities said. Then his test results came back positive the next morning.
Also, the total number of confirmed-positive cases of COVID-19 in Whatcom County had risen to 14 as of 9:20 a.m. Saturday.
Haven't the numbers for 18-49 been consistent throughout? I think the issue is how many younger people need sustained medical intervention that is the cause for concern.
Nice way to describe someone who maybe has to do that to provide for their family or other reasons.
Bush league comment.
We are hearing more and more reports of younger people having severe disease in France, Netherlands, Belgium and the US. I’ve posted several over the past few days. Not good.
Hasn't their been some suggestion that smoking may be a aggravating factor in some your get age classes for COVID-19?
The concern I see is the overweight/obese factor in the US. Let's face it - quite a few Americans are obese. And as another FReeper has noted, there is also a concern about the number of Americans that are diabetic or pre-diabetic.
The reports I reference had no underlying condition. Smoking IS considered an underlying condition. If I have time I will dig up those articles, but I think we will be seeing plenty more as time goes on.
Hi guy, I hope you are doing well.
“Is the corona virus a bio-weapon?”
Imho, yes. Got out accidentally from the level 4 bio lab in Wuhan. From what I can tell from Google earth is a quarter mile from the wet market where it supposedly started.
The virus’s signature and pathological properties give one pause. Animal to human transmission. Mutates quickly, stays on surfaces in higher degree environments for longer periods of time. Aerolized, ease of person to person transmission. Attacks a certain demographic and blood type.
Younger people can be asymptomatic for longer periods of time and can transmit the disease.
I could go on, but this virus looks mfg to me. Someone incerted the wrong RNA sequence into this animal virus and fucked everything up.
China owes the world big time.
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By Clay Neely
Mar. 21, 2020 - 3:34 PM
A Newnan woman has become Coweta County’s first COVID-19 related death.
The 42-year-old woman did not have any underlying health issues and reportedly worked as a local health care worker, according to Coweta County Coroner Richard Hawk.
The number of cases in the 18-49 age group is misleading. You need to look at the incidence rate of each age group if you want to determine if one age group is more vulnerable than another. If 30% of your population is in that age group, you expect approximately 30% to test positive. You look at differences between expected and actual rate.
Even then the numbers could be misleading. If the younger group isn’t seeking medical care and getting tested, many of the cases will go unreported.
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