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500 Medical Workers In Wuhan Have Been Infected And Experts Are Warning Of An Exponential Rise In Coronavirus Cases
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| Michael Snyder
Posted on 02/14/2020 1:50:41 PM PST by davikkm
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To: Vermont Lt
I think you might be missing an important aspect of this: This virus is much more contagious. Nearly twice as many people are hospitalized. About 1/5 of them need ICU treatment, including ventilation and breathing apparatus. No, you probably wont die from this. But if you need any type of medical treatment during this, you are shit out of luck. The system will be overwhelmed. Take a stroll around a hospital nowin the middle of flu season. There are no available beds. Add a few hundred people to every facility. The truck drivers that bring your food wont be driving around. People will shut down shops, stores, and factories. Schools would close. The economy will simply stop. I guess you can go out with a maskbut those have not been available since the middle of January. There is a lot more about this which should generate some concern. Note: I am not saying panic. I am saying you should be thinking about what steps you might take if this breaks out in the US. But, be sure everyone else will be thinking the same thing at the same time
Partner, 90% of the pharmaceuticals come from China. This is the current supply chain on prescription drugs. We have folks who are killing us with prescriptions drugs.
CEO's of U.S. Companies let this happen!
To: Starcitizen
The Philippines are lost. Put a travel ban on them
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posted on
02/14/2020 5:09:12 PM PST
by
redgolum
(If this culture today is civilization, I will be the barbarian.)
To: Wilderness Conservative
Unless the mortality rate comes up a lot
the official rate will *never* come up - its a matter of political security
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posted on
02/14/2020 5:13:35 PM PST
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
To: laplata
just take 1.45B X 2.1% and hide
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posted on
02/14/2020 5:16:06 PM PST
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
To: PIF
Right. That’s a lot of people.
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posted on
02/14/2020 5:54:23 PM PST
by
laplata
(The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
Comment #66 Removed by Moderator
To: dp0622
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posted on
02/14/2020 7:01:14 PM PST
by
Lazamataz
(I cannot spare this man. I cannot spare President Trump. He fights.)
To: GulfMan
There is a lot you can do about it. How long can you survive right now if all food services close and no one is allowed to use a private vehicle ? Prep for that. It started happening in China two weeks ago.
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posted on
02/14/2020 7:23:21 PM PST
by
justa-hairyape
(The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not a ppear that way.)
To: Lazamataz
No Mr. Laz I expect you to die!....j/k :)
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posted on
02/14/2020 7:28:08 PM PST
by
xp38
To: Kozak
“Right now ( if you believe the Chinese numbers) Corona has a 3% mortality rate.”
No, it’s higher for resolved cases. Your 3% figure assumes everybody currently officially infected will survive. We know that is not going to happen. We’re looking at a mortality rate in the high teens in Wuhan, where containment has clearly failed and the medical infrastructure is overwhelmed.
Outside of Wuhan, but still inside China, containment is certain to fail. Outside of China, containment appears to be holding. Where containment is holding and the medical infrastructure is not saturated, mortality should remain low, but still way above the flu.
The rest of the world is about weeks behind Wuhan. Will that make the difference and allow us to successfully stop this thing? The pessimists say not a prayer. The optimists say it looks good. The realists say we won’t know for a couple of weeks. And the uninformed say it’s just the flu.
And nobody but the delusional trust the Chinese numbers. That is validated by their past history of lying. How badly are they lying now?
So, don’t panic, but prepare for a solid month of not leaving your house, maybe two, just in case.
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posted on
02/14/2020 7:31:00 PM PST
by
calenel
(The Democratic Party is a Criminal Enterprise. It is the Progressive Mafia.)
To: Wilderness Conservative
With respect, I consider myself schooled by this thread. From what I do understand about the incubation period we will certainly know within a couple of weeks how bad this bug will hit us.
To: calenel
And don’t go to Central America, India, Africa, Indonesia or the Philippines. For starters.
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posted on
02/14/2020 7:43:57 PM PST
by
calenel
(The Democratic Party is a Criminal Enterprise. It is the Progressive Mafia.)
To: laplata
China is a brutal Communist dictatorship. They will lie, cover up, minimize, omit information, imprison, and killanything to maintain absolute control. The Soviet Union was like that, Russia is becoming more and more like that.
When the Chernobyl disaster occurred, the initial plan (with Gorbachev in the room) was to completely cover up what happened. Then The Americans spoiled their cover-up. We called the Soviets and said, Our satellites are sending us alarming images of Chernobyl, whats going on? At that point Im sure Gorbachov shat himself, busted by The Americans.
To: Lazamataz
Well it doesn’t seem to be having much impact in the US but even if it does I would hope that it passes you over.
I’ve been called LAZ Junior a few times on here and while that’s Certainly not true, it was an honor :)
There’s only one LAZAMATAZ.
And I hope you’re around for a long, long time.
ciao
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posted on
02/14/2020 7:46:31 PM PST
by
dp0622
(Radicals, racists Don't point finger at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to makne ends meet)
To: RooRoobird20
“They will lie, cover up, minimize, omit information, imprison, and killanything to maintain absolute control”
That sounds like the Democrats/Deep State here.
I understand what you’re saying about China and you’re absolutely right.
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posted on
02/14/2020 7:56:54 PM PST
by
laplata
(The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
To: davikkm
Seems like the staff would be at very high risk....especially if they aren’t into 100% following of procedures to ensure their own health....swim in a cesspool and the nasties will find a way to get to you.
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posted on
02/15/2020 3:40:43 AM PST
by
trebb
(Don't howl about illegal leeches, or Trump in general, while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
To: grumpygresh
Actually, I dont give two shits about anyone or anything in Communist China. Unlike some here, I view them absolutely as the enemy. The more resources they have to use to fight the virus, the better. Less for Communist China to invade and subjugate other counties. American companies should have listened to Trump and pulled out of that Communist hellhole months ago.
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posted on
02/15/2020 9:10:46 AM PST
by
Starcitizen
(American. No hypenation necessary. Send the H1B and H4EAD slime home. American jobs for Americans)
To: rightwingcrazy
Eventually
Wuhan, capital of Hubei province, has 11,000,000 residents, exposure in adjoining towns and provinces adds multiple millions more
with every infected person infecting 2.2, this outbreak will be exponential for quite some time
1,000,000 cases by 3/15 if not earlier.
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posted on
02/15/2020 6:18:34 PM PST
by
qwertyz
To: rightwingcrazy
Eventually
Wuhan, capital of Hubei province, has 11,000,000 residents, exposure in adjoining towns and provinces adds multiple millions more
with every infected person infecting 2.2, this outbreak will be exponential for quite some time
1,000,000 cases by 3/15 if not earlier.
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posted on
02/15/2020 6:18:48 PM PST
by
qwertyz
To: laplata; allwrong57
Id bet there are a quarter million dead at a minimum.
I agree. They have 1.4 billion people and the virus is pretty wide spread so we know there are many more dead than theyre saying
Dunno if y'all saw, but a major Chinese company that's been giving out the official numbers had a leak a week or two ago with crazy high numbers for a short time. Something like 1/2 the number of recoveries, and 70x the number of deaths. Granted, these are probably pretty close to the real Chinese unfudged numbers, but no clue how close they are to the real actual numbers (cause I'm sure even China isn't sure how high it really is).
China Official - Estimate from extrapolation from old tencent leak
Recovered: 9526 - 4750
Dead: 1666 - 116,000
Estimated Mortality Rate: 14.9% - 96.3%
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