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Coronavirus Live Thread. Live Thread 1
2/23/2020

Posted on 02/23/2020 1:57:16 PM PST by Vermont Lt

Figured we would start numbering the threads.

Some points to keep in mind:

1. This thing is not “just the flu.” 2. 1/10th of the worlds population is in some sort of lockdown. 3. Generally, we don’t buy the Chinese numbers But if anything they are low. 4. Everyone is welcome to post, but don’t bore us with your “you are panicking” posts. They are tedious.

It’s Sunday night and the Walking Dead is back. Let’s talk Coronavirus.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: chinavirus; coronavirus; covid19; cvlivethread; dsj02; haironfire; livethread; panic; sarscov2
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To: Black Agnes

Dont worry about the elites surviving. They are not the brightest amongst us. They are just the best BSers.


501 posted on 02/24/2020 8:48:15 AM PST by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not a ppear that way.)
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To: Black Agnes

May be.


502 posted on 02/24/2020 8:48:53 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: BusterDog

My daughter is a paramedic. Her husband is a state trooper.

He will go to work if the brimstone is falling from the heavens.

She....will call in sick. Only after grabbing enough IV needles and bags for her family.

She is sick of sick people already.....


503 posted on 02/24/2020 8:49:33 AM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: Black Agnes

The CDC is forgetting that it is really the CDCP. That Prevention part of their title seems to have been lost somewhere.


504 posted on 02/24/2020 8:52:22 AM PST by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not a ppear that way.)
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To: justa-hairyape

They’re also the ones with the likely stockpiles of the antivirals.

Why do you think the CDC statement specifically said nonpharmaceutical means to deal with this?

YOU won’t be getting any antivirals if you get this.


505 posted on 02/24/2020 8:52:24 AM PST by Black Agnes
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To: Vermont Lt

I did a ‘ride along’ with the local police when I worked doing some software for them.

The 8-hour day was over in a flash- I can see why some of them get a rush from it.

When we went for lunch he had a sugary cinnamon bun and added maple syrup to it- I would have gotten diabetes from eating just one- he had 2.

It is a very different existence.


506 posted on 02/24/2020 8:53:19 AM PST by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself.)
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To: Pollard

That is really skinny. My wife is 5 6 and 127. I think she looks like a bone rack.


507 posted on 02/24/2020 8:53:25 AM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: justa-hairyape

They only prevent if it can make someone money or fulfill a SJW criteria.

Our government agencies were long ago captured by the private industries they purport to regulate or assist.


508 posted on 02/24/2020 8:53:50 AM PST by Black Agnes
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To: Vermont Lt

My concern is that of those who get “better”, some folks will become “chronic” in their ability to transmit the disease in the same way a hep b or hep c carrier can continue to carry the disease and transmit it under favorable conditions, like the young teen girl who had no symptoms but still carried the virus and getting people sick. This may be a virus that everyone will contract at some point but even if you survive it, you never get rid of it.


509 posted on 02/24/2020 8:54:44 AM PST by mdmathis6
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To: BobL

I’m thankful Trump started the process of bringing industry back to the Untied States three years ago...


510 posted on 02/24/2020 9:00:54 AM PST by GOPJ ( http://www.tinyurl.com/cvirusmap https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/usmap.htm)
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To: All

Wow the CDC tested 12 more people since Friday (/s), South Korea 10,000

Total tested 426

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-in-us.html


511 posted on 02/24/2020 9:01:01 AM PST by janetjanet998
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To: BobL
I think what will be most interesting is the Emergency Measures we soon take, just to keep Americans alive. For example: Air bags, fuel injection, fancy safety features are all great to have for cars, but they’re all (likely) loaded with Chinese content. But there was a day, not too long ago, when they didn’t have those ‘features’, but they still moved people and goods.

Some parts can be pulled off junkers for a while. Would NOT want to own a new foreign car right now...

512 posted on 02/24/2020 9:04:35 AM PST by GOPJ ( http://www.tinyurl.com/cvirusmap https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/usmap.htm)
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To: Black Agnes

I’d already figured out we’re gonna die with our rural podunk hospital.


513 posted on 02/24/2020 9:06:43 AM PST by bgill (CDC site doesn't recommend wearing a mask to protect from COVID-19)
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To: LilFarmer

Hong Kong banning all except for...

Yeah, that’s gonna work.


514 posted on 02/24/2020 9:09:32 AM PST by bgill (CDC site doesn't recommend wearing a mask to protect from COVID-19)
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To: bgill

The only thing that might (might) get the elites notice at this point is a staged walk out.

We’re still allowing flights in that have had connecting passengers from China on board.


515 posted on 02/24/2020 9:11:47 AM PST by Black Agnes
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To: GOPJ

Most of what came back is simply assembly at this point. Ie the parts come from china but are assembled in the US.

Still no significant medical supply stuff moved back. Like antibiotic manufacture.


516 posted on 02/24/2020 9:12:49 AM PST by Black Agnes
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To: Black Agnes

And it has to be an N100 mask. Maybe a N99 or N98 would work. Certainly better than 95% removal. But wearing an N95 mask with a splatter protector, means you will be exposed. Over 2,000 Doctors and Nurses (Hospital staff) in China have it.


517 posted on 02/24/2020 9:15:59 AM PST by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not a ppear that way.)
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To: Black Agnes

The question for the world is - If the US is not testing for human to human within the US, should the world ban all flights from the US ?


518 posted on 02/24/2020 9:18:12 AM PST by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not a ppear that way.)
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To: justa-hairyape

The American flights back the folks transporting them were wearing level 4 biohazard with rebreathers. An N95 mask won’t do a damned thing. I’ve heard this is 0.02 microns in size.


519 posted on 02/24/2020 9:20:42 AM PST by Solson (Trump 2020!)
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To: bgill
If this goes the way I think it might, there will be "triage" as to who gets the help and who doesn't. Old and/or sick people will get lowest priority.
520 posted on 02/24/2020 9:22:16 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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