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Corona Virus Daily Thread #26

Posted on 03/24/2020 10:11:11 AM PDT by Mariner

Thread #25 here:

http://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3827443/posts?page=1


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To: BusterDog

Sounds like a Monty Python skit... Is this where I say, “ I’m not dead yet, I’m feeling much better?”


481 posted on 03/24/2020 3:12:14 PM PDT by LilFarmer
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To: kaila

I have a partial solution:

Since people in their 70s and up are going to die soon, and some of them are actually looking forward to it (I know my grandmother was, on her 90th birthday), let’s set up a volunteer program for the elderly.

Test them first to make sure they’re not infected, then send them to help out wherever trained health personnel are doing jobs untrained people can do. To free up the health workers a bit.


482 posted on 03/24/2020 3:12:25 PM PDT by firebrand
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To: cgbg

“I expect to see a lot more of that in the next few weeks.”

Yes. Sigh. Idiots. We can only really fight effectively with valid data.


483 posted on 03/24/2020 3:12:56 PM PDT by calenel (Don't panic. Prepare and be vigilant. Join the war effort. On the human side.)
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To: LilFarmer

‘This is not a cold. This is the Grim Reaper knocking on my door’: Fitness enthusiast, 42, blasts people who dismiss coronavirus symptoms as he describes terror and pain of muscle cramps, 104 temperature and struggling to breathe

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8147429/Illinois-father-42-warns-coronavirus-NOT-like-flu-shares-diary-hospital-bed.html


484 posted on 03/24/2020 3:13:00 PM PDT by RummyChick
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To: kaila

How old are you? Parents? Grand parents?

It is likely your grandfathers were yanked out of high school, trained for six weeks, and sent to some hell hole in the Pacific.

In my case he was sent to France in 1918.

They had no choice. Period. At least three years of their life, spent killing other people in muck you can probably only imagine.

We are asking you to sit on ass for two weeks.

Grow the F up. You sound like a scared little child.


485 posted on 03/24/2020 3:13:50 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: firebrand

“Since people in their 70s and up are going to die soon, and some of them are actually looking forward to it (I know my grandmother was, on her 90th birthday), let’s set up a volunteer program for the elderly.”

How about if younger people will volunteer to work in the hospitals and quarantine centers, once they acquire the virus and have their case resolved, not only are they green lighted and exempt from all lockdowns, but they get to conscript their parents into hospital and quarantine service?


486 posted on 03/24/2020 3:15:57 PM PDT by BusterDog
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To: In_Iowa_not_from

Yeah...these were not silver. I found the silver. Before my sister did. There is one bonus to being the child that cleans out the house.


487 posted on 03/24/2020 3:16:14 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Vermont Lt

She needs a tour of duty volunteering in a third world country, watching people of all ages dying in her arms.

Some Americans are just spoiled rotten and do not understand how fortunate we are, and why every life is important.


488 posted on 03/24/2020 3:16:57 PM PDT by cgbg (BOLO--escaped SNF resident--Joe Biden)
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To: Black Agnes

Honestly, I don’t think they CAN be in the slums. That will be horrifying, then the cholera...

It makes me sick thinking about it.


489 posted on 03/24/2020 3:17:23 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Vermont Lt
👍 This!!!
490 posted on 03/24/2020 3:17:42 PM PDT by datura
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To: RummyChick

btw, the illinois guy took ibuprofen


491 posted on 03/24/2020 3:18:29 PM PDT by RummyChick
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To: Vermont Lt
Virgin field epidemics never infect everyone exposed. That was true of measles in Mexico during the Spanish Conquest period, and it was true of the 1918 Spanish Flu epidemic, which infected about 35% of the world's population (33% of the US).
"This is a new virus. Never seen before by a human immune system.

Everyone will get this. Everyone. Not one person exposed to this, at a infectious dose, will not get infected."


492 posted on 03/24/2020 3:18:44 PM PDT by Thud
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To: RummyChick

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8148503/Harvard-president-Lawrence-Bacow-68-wife-test-positive-COVID-19.html


493 posted on 03/24/2020 3:20:10 PM PDT by RummyChick
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To: BusterDog

A+


494 posted on 03/24/2020 3:20:13 PM PDT by firebrand
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To: kabar
Yes, exactly. Each new generational threat, along with every new shift of the technology curve - throughout the ages - creates a huge demand for solutions, and ushers in yet another rush phase of resources, specialists, education, training, career opportunities, etc.

I would expect that based on this experience, the US - and probably most countries - will elevate bio-terror from the semi-mysterious boogieman WMD class to very real, non extinction level national security threats that require real-time monitoring, detection systems, rapid response plans, multi-agency (fed/state/local) coordination charts, etc - the list goes on.

Then, detailed matrices cross-cutting geography, city/urban/suburban/rural impacts, age, health, environment, ... the variable and permutations are practically endless. As I privately mentioned to you, I really see the CDC or some kind of equivalent essentially being militarized and charged with responsibility for the entire bio-threat detection/response/management process.

Ultimately, the proglibs have a point: how were we so unprepared? (Not Trump's fault - not anyone's really to this degree). But what the hell where CIA, DoD, and the rest doing? Detect/defend against nukes yes, chem yes, but bio? Waiting for the Russians to launch an obvious attack? No one seemed prepared for how this all went down. End result: Multi-trillion $ hit on US economy, suspension/possible compromise of civil liberties, the list goes on. Truly, an epic break-down on par (or exceeding) Pearl and/or 9/11.

When Trump is done, he will have so many legacy moments it will be hard to count them. Dealing with CV, and the subsequent elevation and re-org of how this country treats bio-terror, will be just one of them.

495 posted on 03/24/2020 3:22:09 PM PDT by semantic
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To: RummyChick

The Biebs may get the Rona

Hillsong church pastor Carl Lentz - who baptized Justin Bieber and counts COVID-19 positive NBA star Kevin Durant among his flock - reveals he has coronavirus

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8148487/Hillsong-church-pastor-Carl-Lentz-counts-celebrities-flock-says-coronavirus.html


496 posted on 03/24/2020 3:22:11 PM PDT by RummyChick
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To: impimp
This is why this 4% number for Corona is BS as many people get infected and don’t get sick. This is what makes it just the flu, bro, from a death perspective.

Do you have a link to the infected who don't get sick? Do you have data to back it up? Don't you have your own thread for this?

I think you should discuss your religious preferences and "beliefs" on your own thread. Part of your religion is the "belief" of infected that don't get sick. You don't have a gossamer of evidence beyond this modern false god belief. Sadly, you personally will infect and kill others. Must be nice to be a sadistic trust fund baby like yourself. Do we really need to pull up your old posts?

Great work! [/s]
497 posted on 03/24/2020 3:22:22 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
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To: datura
We are seriously locked up now for most businesses, and everyone is ok with it for the most part. Yeah, it sucks

Okay. What is the criteria/metric for when the shutdown can be rolled back in selected areas?

498 posted on 03/24/2020 3:22:27 PM PDT by Fury
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To: datura

And, when my grandfather left, my grandmother started nursing school. In 1917.

She graduated into the Influenza.

Can you imagine the PTSD in that house? Well...actually I can!


499 posted on 03/24/2020 3:23:02 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: RummyChick

Coronavirus cases in Germany rise 21% in a day to 27,436 with deaths also up by 28 to 114 as country maintains 0.4% death rate

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8146125/Coronavirus-cases-deaths-rise-Germany-death-rate-stays-low.html


500 posted on 03/24/2020 3:23:35 PM PDT by RummyChick
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