Coronavirus Live Thread. 2/15-2/16

2/15/2020

[Vermont Lt]

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

[LilFarmer]

There are rumors we have as many as 1000 cases in the US now, based on a leaked CDC conversation

[LilFarmer]

The White House said this week it does “not have high confidence in the information coming out of China” regarding the count of coronavirus cases, a senior administration official told CNBC. Meanwhile, China has reportedly been reluctant to accept help from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and has reportedly suppressed information about the outbreak from scientists that it deems alarming.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/15/heres-why-the-white-house-doesnt-trust-chinas-coronavirus-numbers.html

Neither do we, Mr. President!

[BobL]

“We had better get our medical and pharmaceutical supply chains adjusted yesterday, as China is done for a while.”

Considering at least 80% of our drugs are cut off, it would be helpful if our docs take some crash courses on holistic medicine...it’s about all they’ll have.

But otherwise, no problem.

[calenel]

“And it looks like the growth rate is going down after China made the big adjustment on 02/13.”

LOL. One day’s worth of data? And who says China hasn’t returned to their previous practice of manipulating the data?

But you’re still on your “but, but, but flu...” kick I see. Carry on.

[janetjanet998]

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UPDATE: China’s National Health Commission reports 166 new cases and 3 new deaths outside Hubei province since yesterday

[Black Agnes]

Where did you hear that?

[Moonman62]

You’re putting words in my mouth.

I said the growth rate appears to be down, which is true. You obviously don’t know what that means.

And why don’t you include the recovery numbers?

[Moonman62]

LOL. One day’s worth of data?

...

The link I provided shows three data points after the 2/13 adjustment. China is on the other side of the date line.

Three does not equal one.

[Starcitizen]

Good. Trump was right. Pull ALL manufacturing out of Communist China. Yesterday. Return Communist China to pre-Nixon times

It will be a Republican century if we can quickly pull this off.

American jobs for Americans
American manufacturing for Americans

[goldstategop]

In America so far we have relatively few cases thanks to strict border controls.

If Democrats succeed in reversing them, all bets are off.

The Open Borders crowd think more people are good but they don’t take carriers into account.

[BobL]

“They swarm every new thread. I just ignore, and keep posting information.”

Yea, I don’t mind them making us support our points, but when one clown here started claiming that “we want millions to die” - that pissed me off, and pissed off the mods, who pulled 2 full threads due to him.

[datura]

I know we all want to believe that everything is going to be ok, that like SARS this will merely go away. I know my prayers ask for that every day. I have family in China, so of course I pray for them.

But I’ve lived my life hoping for the best while preparing for the worst. This has the potential to change modern life as we know it. The worlds manufacturing hub of everything has lost its edge - in everything- almost overnight.

Going to China has always felt like a nation of tweakers who all won the lottery. Reality bites hard.

After many millennia of crowding together, the people of a China are now finding peace and solace in being separated from each other, and seeing the relative safety of living in the countryside. Things we have always believed in out West here in the US.

At the end of the day, I love the people of China, while I hate their communist overlords with all my soul.

[justa-hairyape]

My guess is she meant to type 1,000 suspected cases. Either way its bad though.

[LilFarmer]

Yeah, it gets pretty annoying. You have to wonder why they work so hard to distract people from what is really happening. No rational person thinks is like the flu anymore, anyone who is still pushing that narrative has an agenda. Just my .02.

[goldstategop]

Can a market economy cope with the stress of a serious disease threat?

We’re about to find out.

[firebrand]

Only 1,430,964 more cases to catch up to Guo Wengui’s estimate of a week ago.

[null and void]

Step out for a minute and...

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.

[Black Agnes]

I’m more of a bandaid off slowly kind of chick. This will be bandaid off quickly!

[null and void]

Things should turn around by spring.

Why?