"Ping-a-gram for Mr. Void."
Posted on 01/08/2020 8:08:52 PM PST by BenLurkin
A new, potent form of viral pneumonia has sickened 59 people in China with high fevers, lung lesions, and difficulty breathing. All have been quarantined, and seven are in critical condition.
WHO calls the outbreak “pneumonia of unknown etiology”—which is epidemiologist speak for we don’t know what the hell this is.
China is not known for open communication about epidemics. SARS was not reported to WHO for months and killed approximately 800 people in 2002 and 2003 while spreading to dozens of countries. This week, China seems to be more readily releasing information, though China continues to be China: The hashtag #WuhanSARS has been blocked by censors.
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Sars 2.0..cough.cough
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.
All viruses start in China..
Very true. All start in china. Perfect place for new disease.
Do we send meat there to be processed and they send it back to the USA? Just wondering because no way would I consume anything when some mystery virus is spreading like wild flies.
Okay, I am removing my tinfoil hat now.
Somebody doing a little testing?
You make a good point. Reason enough to buy meat locally.
Looks like it may be linked to SEAFOOD...
Hints of trouble first surfaced publicly on 30 December, when a directive from the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission asking hospitals to report unusual cases of pneumonia was reported by local media. The next day, the commission posted a notice in Chinese on its website stating that a number of local hospitals had reported cases of pneumonia linked to the wholesale Huanan Seafood Market. The commission had turned up 27 cases in the city of 11 million, 690 kilometers west of Shanghai. Seven of the patients were in serious condition, two had recovered and were nearing discharge, and the remaining number were stable. All patients were isolated and their close contacts were under surveillance, the notice stated.
For two and a half weeks, I’ve been having filled, draining sinuses, coughing up phlegm from deep in my chest that intermittently has fresh blood in it, and my throat is like raw hamburger. My wife enjoys it because I can’t raise my voice, or even speak at times. I get her back by horking up a piece of lung in bed at 4 AM. LOL I just got put on Azithromycin, Prednisone, and codeine-spiked cough syrup. No fever, but my doc thinks it may be a touch of pneumonia along with the respiratory infections that are popping up like toadstools around the area. This flu season has been a bitch so far.
Not all. Aids started in Africa IIRC.
Chinese New Year is coming up and people travel, and families congregate, just like our Thanksgiving. It’s a great way to spread disease, unfortunately.
Damn. That list reads like a who’s who of issues I have. Thanks! Now I have to find a good source of it.
There’s 1.2 billion Chinese. Let me know when it hits 100M.
RE: Elderberry syrup
GAIA SYRUP tastes the best.
What is amazing is that the number of real or suspected cases in Hong Kong keeps going up. There have been suspected cases in both Taiwan and Singapore.
However, the number of cases in Wuhan remains at 59. Also, no other city in China has reported anything. Many people think that Chinese authorities are trying to hide the true numbers. Just like they did when SARS came.
I suppose Xi would call this “SARS with Chinese characteristics.”
Bet it came from all the hog disease problems they had recently.
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