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Scientist who simulated the global impact of a coronavirus outbreak says ‘the cat’s already out of the bag’ and calls China’s efforts to contain the disease ‘unlikely to be effective’
CBSMarketWatch ^ | Jan 25, 2020

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 China’s 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.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: china; disease
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1 posted on 01/25/2020 2:12:19 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Government scare propaganda

Fear not

Colloidal silver kills all viruses. Don’t listen to guvmint it take shots


2 posted on 01/25/2020 2:16:55 PM PST by Truthoverpower (The guv mint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: nickcarraway; stars & stripes forever

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 hasn’t 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....

Ping.


3 posted on 01/25/2020 2:18:29 PM PST by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: Jane Long

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.


4 posted on 01/25/2020 2:21:01 PM PST by dp0622 (Radicals, racists Don't point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to make ends meet)
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To: dp0622

How can you make jokes about “bad beer” when there’s no such thing? When it’s all the beer you got? Well it ain’t so bad. :)


5 posted on 01/25/2020 2:25:41 PM PST by Equine1952 ((You can die on your feet or live down on your knees. You can not do both. Freedom Is not Free))
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To: nickcarraway

https://threader.app/thread/1220919589623803905


6 posted on 01/25/2020 2:26:08 PM PST by MarMema (Proud co-pilot for John James)
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To: nickcarraway

Communist China is big on control.

If it can’t stop it, the US certainly couldn’t either.


7 posted on 01/25/2020 2:28:13 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: Equine1952

:) True!

But my jokes were bad :)

Anyway, doesn’t alcohol kill viruses (are they alive?)?

I better stock up!


8 posted on 01/25/2020 2:29:34 PM PST by dp0622 (Radicals, racists Don't point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to make ends meet)
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To: nickcarraway
I've decided this researcher is an idiot.

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.

9 posted on 01/25/2020 2:30:45 PM PST by DannyTN
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To: nickcarraway

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. .


10 posted on 01/25/2020 2:31:29 PM PST by tinyowl
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To: dp0622

[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 only time the words “beer” and “bad” belong together are when you run out of the first. OK - maybe if you’re drinking non-alcoholic beer.


11 posted on 01/25/2020 2:33:07 PM PST by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: nickcarraway

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.


12 posted on 01/25/2020 2:34:15 PM PST by LilFarmer
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To: Truthoverpower

“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.


13 posted on 01/25/2020 2:34:54 PM PST by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: Zhang Fei

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!


14 posted on 01/25/2020 2:36:49 PM PST by dp0622 (Radicals, racists Don't point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to make ends meet)
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To: dp0622
:) True! But my jokes were bad :) Anyway, doesn’t alcohol kill viruses (are they alive?)? I better stock up!

I hope we can include rum in the effective medicines. I am rather healthy if it is so.

15 posted on 01/25/2020 2:40:08 PM PST by ProudFossil
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To: nickcarraway

A vaccine is coming.


16 posted on 01/25/2020 2:42:49 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: ProudFossil

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 :)


17 posted on 01/25/2020 2:43:53 PM PST by dp0622 (Radicals, racists Don't point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to make ends meet)
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To: nickcarraway; neverdem; ProtectOurFreedom; Mother Abigail; EBH; vetvetdoug; Smokin' Joe; ...
Bring Out Your Dead

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.

18 posted on 01/25/2020 2:45:27 PM PST by null and void (The government wants to disarm us after 243 yrs 'cuz they plan to do things we would shoot them for!)
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To: Jane Long

“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.


19 posted on 01/25/2020 2:45:30 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: DannyTN

You are assuming that it is not an escaped bio-weapon from one of the 2 military bio-weapons facilities in wusan.


20 posted on 01/25/2020 2:50:24 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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