Coronavirus Live Thread Feb 9, 2020

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[janetjanet998]

There are currently 40,221 confirmed cases worldwide, including 904fatalities.

[mrsmith]

“… Delivery of high quality effective medical care and public health solutions in China suffers from a variety of problems. One of the most challenging is low levels of human capital in health care systems. According to one study, China has only 60,000 general practitioners or one per roughly 23,000 people. By comparison, in the United States there are 1,500 people per general practitioner. If all things were equal, this would mean Beijing one of the largest cities in the world would have fewer than 1,000 general practitioners. Nor are many medical professionals well trained. In community health centers, less than one fourth of doctors have a bachelor’s degree. Even as recently as a decade ago, only 67% of Chinese doctors had only been educated up to the junior college level, hardly enough under any reasonable standard to be a highly qualified medical professional..”

Good read.
https://www.baldingsworld.com/2020/02/10/the-unspoken-problem-behind-the-coronavirus-outbreak/

[mrsmith]

Thanks again! You’re very kind.

Looking like a March resumption in China which I believe will be devastating for them.

[Capt. Tom]

My area has about 400,000 people. There are about 50 ICU beds in the near 3 hospitals. As of last Friday there was not an open bed to be found within 50 miles. Not kidding.
This is not about dying. Most people won’t die.
This is about overwhelming the system. This is about destroying the economy. This is about political instability in the largest country in the world.

Based on my limited hospital visits for internal bleeding, and strokes in the last few years, I find hospitals over crowded with patients in the halls or close to overcrowded.

It won't take much to overwhelm Hospitals if people who get the flu think they might have the corona virus and storm the hospitals. - Tom

[SheepWhisperer]

You’re right.
It’s just like the flu

That’s why China has nearly 25% of its population (over 400 million) in some sort of lockdown, told most to not go to work for two weeks and shut down its stock market.

::rolls eyes::.

[tomkat]

Sorry, I’ve been too miserable to research it, and doc’s office prolly wouldn’t let me in to check it out anyway .. lol

My biggest accomplishment last week was going outside to spread ice melt on the driveway two different times.
It’s 150’ long and a 25° slope .. if it wasn’t cleared off, the hearse couldn’t get up here.

Reckon it’ll either pass or it won’t . . .

[Jim Noble]

Looking like a March resumption in China

What makes you think that can happen?

By March, the leaders will be on the run, the central government will not exist, and production will be zero or nearly so.

[tomkat]

Thank you   :-)

<cough/hack/sniff>

[9YearLurker]

Check out this clip:

https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1226677221538004998

[steve86]

I hope you have 4WD hearses there just in case...

[mrsmith]

I’m not sure they can, but they’re going all out for it.
And there’s no limit on their powers.
We’ll see.

One of the most frightening, to me, aspects of this event is the success of China’s government’s powers.
A ratification of China’s extreme control of society.

[Vermont Lt]

Look at #33

[momincombatboots]

Not this kind of fear. It is exactly what will make you bow the knee to the one who promises relief. This is exactly what happened with swine, avian, sars. People huddled in fear without facts. The world kept spinning then, as well.

[Uncle Miltie]

Agreed. I’m mildly prepped. Any sites with good operational plans and supplies lists for such an event?

[blueplum]

thanks for the thread!

cremation worker on the phone - 4-5x usual since Jan 23. Have 110 people working; need 40-50 more. Not enough cars, not enough men to pick up bodies. 38% from hospitals 60% died at home. Of 127 bodies, 9 were ‘pneumonia virus’ and 48 were ‘suspected’:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KFxCqV1fPQ

GOLDMINE of videos, grab them while you can
https://mobile.twitter.com/jenniferatntd

including several Feb 7th videos from Fang Bin, who’s calling for a National Resistance. (scroll down a bit there are 3 or 4 different clips) He says he has a utube channel called Wuhan Zhiji but I’m not finding it. Spread his videos so they don’t kill him!

another video says when Shenzhen was locked down, people just swam to Hong Kong

[janetjanet998]

Virus Fallout From Singapore Conference Spreads Across Europe

Group of Britons sharing chalet in the Alps contracted virus
Further cases in Spain, U.K. linked to French infections

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-09/virus-fallout-from-singapore-conference-spreads-across-europe?utm_source=facebook&utm_content=asia&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic

[Vermont Lt]

Don’t leave the house one day. You will need 21 days of whatever you eat and drink.

[hardspunned]

I read that. The only thing we know for sure about caronavirus in China is that we have no idea what’s going on. I don’t understand only 12 cases here. You, like me, would have assumed hundreds if not thousands of US cases by now. Is it possible Trump’s task force got out in front of this before we took the hit? Just trying to understand.

[Uncle Miltie]

I can go 90 days if I had to. I’m good. Thanks.....

[Vermont Lt]

If there are thousands here they haven’t been growing long. I don’t think we are at the point where the government is lying to us that much.

[Vermont Lt]

Don’t forget water and batteries.