Posted on 03/02/2020 12:52:39 PM PST by Vermont Lt
Continuation of Live Thread from No 7.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3820821/posts
2 confirmed in GA. Wonder where? If it’s in my area.
Fair enough—but he could have just offered no opinion on the subject—say he was researching it further—etc..
Confirmed in Fulton County. Atlanta area.
Lots of cases being imported from Italy now. Shut down the flights.
I agree. Shut them down.
At this point Italy has infected all of Europe...
Italy is also now infecting the USA.
It's a lot harder to convince a free population to support what is required to stop a virus like this. Chinese leaders had it easy, and didn't care about placating or convincing the masses. Imagine what will happen here if Trump makes such an announcement!
lack of confidence in the presumably responsible agencies to give us bad news makes rumor/less verified reports much harder to dismiss.
who/cdc/et al aren’t acting to try to keep each of us healthy. any and all of us can be collateral damage for the cdc. above all it is control panic at all levels.
the virus has odd features. there are preliminary reports that suggest some things that are more frightening than what is already out there. if any of these things are true we will never hear it from the cdc until it is blatantly obvious. I am very interested to see western ‘recovered’ studies after a while. it is still very early.
if we have annual pandemic from this, it staggers the mind to even imagine how it changes this country and the world. death rates could be higher next year due to survivors with permanent damage (the ‘serious/criticals’ that survive the first year), and so on each year.
there are local factors that may make the chinese have the worst outbreak stats (real stats not funny numbers) - sars vaccination and every chinese effectively having smokers lungs from the pollution.
this has worried me since mid-late january when I started paying attention, at first due to the apparent contagion and then due to china’s economic suicide reaction - meaning this was really bad. everything that has followed isn’t a surprise in the broad concepts, unfortunately. we are 4-8 weeks from something anyone not from a very different country cannot imagine.
What I am saying is—that logically we would want to ban flights from all of Europe if we want to go there...
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Placer is a big county but if the worker was working in Solano, probably southern Placer, like Roseville maybe?. It looks like SFO is just about surrounded now so it won’t be a big surprise when their numbers start rolling in. I’m a little surprised they didn’t report before anyone else.
right. presumably we already know exactly what happened. it may be this is derivative or successor work to the UNC work that the virologist that was there that was later in the wuhan lab followed up with.
Thankfully, not all people are scared. What I saw today at work are people who know there's a particularly contagious disease, but who are staying focused on doing the best job they can at work and who discussed ways we can work safer and reduce risk at work, and also at their home.
And part of people not knowing what to believe is some of the absolutely crazy rumors floating around there. There's more than a little bit of that going on at FR, just like at a lot of on-line forums. Thankfully, people are getting called out where appropriate.
Western Europe has handled this badly as well.
I think they weren’t sure what would happen, so they were trying to keep a happy face on for as long as they could...
They don’t want to wreck the world economy—the tradeoffs are _not_ pretty.
If you know anyone who can buy direct from the military, now might be a time to look them up. All kinds of stuff comes up for sale. Can turn a decent profit quick on the flip. Know someone who purchased direct for his spec op troops. Still kept the buying capability after leaving and uses it on the direct military surplus sites.
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GA health said cases are Italy related
said not worried about people on plane because he didn’t have symptoms then
Lookner just shook his head
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRwrJwt62K8
“long-term this is going to start a war”
The embedded assumption in that statement is that this virus is a bioweapon, released intentionally or by accident.
It’s a shitty bioweapon if so. Piss poor.
No, this is a product of the filthy, rancid stew that is China. And it rose up out of the sewer.
And it could start a war anyway. Even without war several governments are at risk, and some will fall.
indeed they aren’t, and beyond that governments want to continue existing. in a bad scenario governments fall with this and some probably will. in nightmare, all western governments become emergency powers entities for a long long time.
also, plague reaction is gone from our culture. next time a whiff of something pops up in asia, you might see a very different popular reaction forcing government to restrict entry into the country. once everyone has buried at least one loved one from this, it changes for generations.
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