Uh Oh!
Too late now.
Captain Trips, here we go!
Yoo-hoo, Nully, over here!
Open borders would be such a lovely thing.
What if at least one other student was exposed to this individual and is now attending class?
Oh, crap. Waaaay too close for comfort.
Where is Mother Abigail when we need her?
I’m hearing Crowded House plaing in the background...
Closed down our major research universities .
They infested with spies .
Reminds me of the start of the Last Ship series
So, is he here by himself or is the whole family here? Who is treating him and who lives in the house? Young roommates who haven't a clue about isolation? Or do grandma and the other 15 relatives bring him breakfast in bed and they all use the same bathroom. His 8 cousins attend public school. Mama and uncle go out to work everyday. And the 3 toddlers go to day care. Right? Bet a whole group traveled to China during the break. No way is he the only one from there as that's not how it works.
PING
It's here.
Novel?
It’s probably the paperback version.
“Officials at the Brazos County Health District said Thursday they are investigating a suspected case of the 2019 novel coronavirus. The male patient, who has been identified as a student at Texas A&M University, had traveled from Wuhan, China, where the coronavirus that has made headlines in recent days first originated, officials said.”
Actually it is out of its containment box in China despite their efforts to contain it. I thought I would never congratulate Red China. If news reports are accurate it is also an airborne contagion, thus will be pandemic. It is already on many continents.
I suspect as with the SARS virus it will mutate into less virulent forms.
This is not the “Spanish Flu” hopefully, post WWI it killed millions and also mutated to a less virulent form and oddly researchers exhumed bodies of victims in Alaska in recent times to study this virus. This was good research. The reason for Alaska is it is cold. The odds of preserving the original genetic material was much higher in Alaska as compared to my Texas.
Even more odd the virologist are not sure of the original genome of the Spanish Flu that killed millions. This genome changed rapidly and this is good. Otherwise it would have killed far more.
A virus or bacteria that kills quickly and surely is an inferior bacteria or virus. If it kills with 100% efficiency it insures its own death it would no longer have a host to spread its disease.
AIDs is unique virus. The host can be infected for years and spread the disease not even knowing he or she is infected. It is a most efficient virus.
F’n insanity!!! Ship them all back!!!!!
He got it from reading a novel?
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