Coronavirus Live Thread. 2/15-2/16

2/15/2020

[Vermont Lt]

There are currently 69,036 confirmed cases worldwide, including 1,666 fatalities.

[Spitzensparkin1]

There’s always the blast furnaces at the steel mill, just sayin’, they have one there and it’s spewing out a LOT of SO2 even though no one is supposed to be working (except the Military, that is.

Prepare for the worst and hope for the best.

SS1

[Black Agnes]

The Gilead product isn’t a vaccine, it’s a drug. Like ‘Tamiflu’ or ‘Ribavirin’.

[Black Agnes]

“We have to trust our fellow man to try to do the right thing.”

Does your front door have a lot? Why or why not?

[justa-hairyape]

I love the smell of lysol in the morning.

[LilFarmer]

Posted at the entrance of a London hospital:

[SE Mom]

That’s scary and creepy. If the real numbers are as bad as we think, it may be necessary. I don’t know- the sheer numbers of people make this unmanageable.

[riri]

Heard some interesting (frightening) tidbits on Clyde Lewis podcast today.

1. Patent application that looks to modulate a corona virus spike protein genetic sequencing genetic sequencing in the precise area that was altered by Xing Chi (?) at UNC to make a virulent strain of Corona virus and who’s alteration would explain the Wuhan’s strains unusual behavior.

2.Dr. Leber first went to the Wuhan University in Nov 2011 to participate in a nanotechnology forum. When he was believed to have been recruited.It resulted in giving him several million dollars in research grants to study at the University of Technology at Wuhan. This became known as Joint Nanokey Laboratories

3. Leber became intimately involved in what seemed to initially be a NANOTECHNOLOGY lab. ( this iis important- think lungs)

Later shifted into involving biology. He was visiting the lab several times a year as he was trying to build up a nano-bio division in the lab.

Now, jump ahead to the CT scans showing “ground glass” appearance in the lungs. Little bits and pieces- like nanoparticles.

4. Another co-creator of the variant of Corona virus, Dr. Frank Plumber, a world renowned HIV researcher died a few days ago unexpectedly of a heart attack

5. Plumber acquired a corona virus sample from researchers that extracted it from a 60 year old man in Saudi Arabia and had it in Canada’s National Biology Laboratory where it was allegedly stolen by Chinese agents

6. Remember the words of Julian Assange warning about breathing the magic dust.

[LilFarmer]

2nd case related to the fatal case in Taiwan: Taiwan confirms two indigenous cases of COVID-19; people in contact with them being monitored PublishTime：2020-02-16 According to the Central Epidemic Command Center, two more cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) have been confirmed in Taiwan. The first case is a male in his 60s, with a history of hepatitis B and diabetes. He had no recent overseas travel history, and no known contact with COVID-19 confirmed cases. The patient began to cough January 27, and went to a hospital February 3 for shortness of breath, where he was diagnosed with pneumonia. He was hospitalized in a negative pressure isolation ward the same day. On the evening of February 15, the patient died of pneumonia-induced sepsis. With his family members’ consent, the patient’s remains will be cremated in accordance with legal requirements for communicable diseases. Tissue specimens will first be taken for further testing. The second confirmed case is a male in his 50s, a member of the first case’s family. He was confirmed infected with COVID-19 after lab tests February 15. So far, this patient shows no symptoms of COVID-19, and is being treated in a negative pressure isolation ward. https://www.cdc.gov.tw/En/Bulletin/Detail/qSW0T26rAM8zQY67xaPhnw?typeid=158

[firebrand]

Here it is.

[BobL]

61 year old Uber Driver in Taiwan dies (he had been to China). First got sick Jan 27, hard time to breathe on Feb 3, and then dies on Feb 15...nearly 3 weeks later. Two of his brothers, both Uber drivers too, are now showing symptoms.

...here we go.

[justa-hairyape]

In other words, if you have a real medical emergency, why did you come to a hospital ? We have a real problem on our hands.

[9YearLurker]

Not yet to the level they qualify as a pandemic. Look to wikipedia for a list of the stages and what qualifies.

[Vermont Lt]

My guess is it will qualify by the end of the month. Not “hair on fire” bad, but it will be “everywhere.”

About the same time the snowflakes realize how much of their crap is on a dock in Shanghai! Lol.

[Vermont Lt]

It started out OK, but like every budding writer they went just a smidge too far—and made historical mistakes and character mistakes by making them too emotional for someone at that level in the CCP.

If he “wrote it” because got fired and was seeking revenge it would have been more believable.

[Vermont Lt]

I would think if MOST cases just look like a flu, and because so many US folks do not smoke it could easily be transmitted and not reach the degree of severity. I figure this is why the CDC wants every case of flu tested.

[9YearLurker]

I would agree.

That’s why the UK is asking anyone with flu symptoms to stay home for two weeks:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/coronavirus/index.html

[PIF]

one that the west barely has the political will to initiate.

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i think right now many people, who are ‘authorities’, are smug - believing, right or wrong, that the west n the us in particular, are safe from the worst n keep finding numbers charts other authorities to confirm what they want to find - Consensus Blindness - a common affliction in many sciences n among officials in bureaucracies

[PIF]

dying of ‘organ failure’ later in china not counted

[DEPcom]

” I figure this is why the CDC wants every case of flu tested.”

That would be smart, easier to rule out the flu. If it is the flu, apply flu treatment. If the flu test comes back negative check for Coronovirus. That would save a lot of testing time.

[PIF]

they are using whatever number fits their ccp political security directive