Posted on 01/25/2020 2:12:19 PM PST by nickcarraway
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Scientist and scholar Eric Toner, quoted above in an excerpt from a Friday interview with the business-news channel CNBC, explained that Chinas efforts to contain the current outbreak of a fast-moving upper-respiratory illness are unlikely to be effective.
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Toner said the WHO may have made a mistake by not declaring 2019-nCoV an international emergency.
(Excerpt) Read more at marketwatch.com ...
Government scare propaganda
Fear not
Colloidal silver kills all viruses. Dont listen to guvmint it take shots
FTA....
...Toner, an M.D. and researcher at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, took part in a simulation, undertaken in partnership with the World Economic Forum and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, that posited such a disease could kill 65 million people within 18 months under the right circumstances.
Coronaviruses, with SARS among that group, are infections of the respiratory tract that can lead to illnesses like pneumonia or the common cold.
Toner told Business insider during an interview that he hasnt completed research on the current strain of the Wuhan coronavirus, known as 2019-nCoV, but said that the death toll could run in the millions if the influenza were resistant to modern vaccines and was as easy to catch as the common flu....
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Ping.
Boy is this virus gonna have the last laugh if I end up gasping my last breath because of it while dozens of my bad beer jokes live on FR for eternity.
How can you make jokes about bad beer when theres no such thing? When its all the beer you got? Well it aint so bad. :)
Communist China is big on control.
If it can’t stop it, the US certainly couldn’t either.
:) True!
But my jokes were bad :)
Anyway, doesn’t alcohol kill viruses (are they alive?)?
I better stock up!
Even if quarantines only slow the virus, it:
By claiming the quarantines and screenings will be ineffective, this research is demoralizing attempts that for all of the above reasons will almost certainly save lives.
Like climate models ... tweak a variable .01% and get the result you want - for money, fame, or to push your political agenda, or to control your government’s or other governments’ peoples. .
[Boy is this virus gonna have the last laugh if I end up gasping my last breath because of it while dozens of my bad beer jokes live on FR for eternity.]
The cat is definitely out if the bag, but my hope is still that stopping travel from heavily affected countries would slow it down enough to buy some time. Even a few months would possibly give researchers time to come up with vaccines or prepare hospitals with enough PPE, saline, etc.
“Colloidal silver...”
Utter snake-oil and flim-flammery — over 20 years ago, had a commercial health insurance broker who called on our company advocating this. All he did was die as blue as a peacock because it all builds up in the system.
I like the taste of beer but I don’t love it enough to drink it without alcohol!!
That’s like liking the taste of pot smoke without any THC.
Though I’m not a pot smoker so I really can’t say if there’s any taste.
And I can’t remember back 35 years on how it tasted the last time!
I hope we can include rum in the effective medicines. I am rather healthy if it is so.
A vaccine is coming.
If I can include Jack Daniels you can include rum :)
I’ve had rum so few times in my life that i cannot recall the taste.
Time to start mixing things up :)
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.
“that posited such a disease could kill 65 million people within 18 months under the right circumstances.”
I think those would be the wrong circumstances.
You are assuming that it is not an escaped bio-weapon from one of the 2 military bio-weapons facilities in wusan.
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