Posted on 01/29/2020 3:00:00 PM PST by nickcarraway
Damn...
You mean to tell me I spent ALL WEEKEND loading mags for nothing????
Psychology today had their brains eaten a long time ago.
When was the last time these things happened?
ALL. AT. THE. SAME. TIME.
1) China has restricted the movements of over 50 million people during Chinese New Year
2) China has instituted temperature screenings at 237 train stations (maybe 287, I lost the link). (South China Morning Post)
3) The President / Communist Party General Secretary of China openly called this a (his words) grave situation (over the weekend) and says that the spread is accelerating
4) The Director of the School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins openly says we should be making national and international plans for the event that this cannot be contained; and talks about multiple crash research programs into vaccines where “money is no object”
5) The Lancet publishes an article saying that R0 (# of people infected by each carrier) is 2.8 (the Spanish Flu of 1918 was only 1.8)
6) A PhD who taught at Harvard School of Public Health for 15 years says that R0 is 3.5
7) The Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services holds a joint press conference in DC, along with the Director of the Institute for Allergies and Infections Diseases, the Director of the Centers for Disease Control, and the Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Disease ....for something that only has had 5 cases without symptoms in the US?
8) Local authorities all over the US start pulling people suspected of infection off of planes and putting them in isolated hospital rooms, and institute contact tracing?
9) British Airways shuts down ALL flights into and out of China
10) Taiwan announced mandatory ankle location bracelets for people coming out the affected area, and say if anyone leaves home they will be subject to MANDATORY involuntary quarantine, and fine one traveler $10,000 for lying about his condition?
I’m still planning on head shots.
Ok, I laughed.
Yes, that certainly explains the Chinese government’s reaction.
South Korea police authorized to arrest coronavirus patients
Gotta admit... I got excited for a little while...
If you trust the Chinese government. (Which I don’t)
You left off: Disney China closed.
Disney was reopened about two days after 9/11 to put that in perspective. Doesn’t close for hurricanes.
The article also missed the major point: of those infected, 25% are in critical condition and hospitalized. Yeah, they may not die, but the early infected are the lucky ones. Later infected will have not hospital beds.
Many of the things you write, we only have the Chinese government’s word is happening.
Nor the Director of the Johns Hopkins school of public health. Nor the CDC news conference yesterday. Nor the pulling people off planes and contact tracing.
Top Kek.
Add to your list the closing of China’s stock market.
I swear I read this morning a list of deaths that showed the ages and most were in their 30s to 50s. Did I imagine that?
The number of confirmed #coronavirus cases in mainland China has risen to 7,158. The number of people it killed now stands at 170 as of Wednesday night - South China Morning Post
Keep loading mags if it makes you feel better I guess.
Nope.
But if you have any that you don't have room for you can send them to me. I will give them a nice home (for a bit) and then give them a rousing send off.
The article writer is obviously an expert in infectious diseases.
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Haha!!! They’re all accounted for.
I had a neighbor once, several years ago - not a gun person. Saw me loading up my vehicle for a weekend Range Call. Made a joking comment to the effect of “Boy, if things ever go really bad, I’m coming over your house...”
I just chuckled, then said “Not unless you’re bringing ammo, food, water, and other supplies you’re not.”
No more joking after that. :^) He got the message.
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