[LouieFisk]

“Doctors at Johns Hopkins University are cautioning that your hospital could become a “disease amplifier.” If you don’t have coronavirus before you go into the hospital, the risk is you’ll get it while you’re there.”
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Yup, Italy provided a “Coming Attractions” reel on that account. Pray you don’t break a leg or need an urgent operation of any sort, e.g. have appendix removed.

[Texas Eagle]

Just had to point out the guy was an Uber driver. Why don’t they mention the occupation of other victims? Besides doctors and nurses I mean. What are the occupations of the other patients who were exposed? One thing we can be sure of, none of them were Uber drivers. And, apparently the vehicle he uses isn’t an SUV or that would’ve been pointed out as well.

[be-baw]

“Last week, Congress passed a whopping $8.3 billion coronavirus emergency bill. It’s larded with giveaways to international groups and projects overseas, including money for the CDC to purchase “official motor vehicles in foreign countries.” That agency ought to be called the Center for the Disbursement of Cash Around the World.”

No kidding. You knew when you heard the price tag that the bill would be loaded with pork. Absolutely abominably disgusting.

[GOP Poet]

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But but but but it's no worse than the flu, bro!...

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.

[Moonlighter]

Anyone who's worried can fill out an online questionnaire, receive a nasal swab kit in the mail, use it and send it to the lab

So scads of sick, untrained people are going to be collecting and putting their (undoubtedly contaiminated) germ containing samples through the postal system for unreliable results. Another gem from the mastermind of Windows.

[Bon mots]

Well, look at this:

An article published in Nature Medicine in 2015 with a co-author from Wuhan institute.
If you read the abstract it says they have assembled a virus in the lab that can transmit from bats to humans.

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Remember that time when a virus escaped from a Chinese lab...

The 1977 H1N1 human influenza pandemic
Due to lab mishandling, a strain of the H1N1 influenza managed to escape from a Chinese facility that was likely trying to create a vaccine for the disease. The virus spread globally and had an infection rate of 20% to 70% among those exposed. Luckily, the strain of the virus caused only mild disease and few fatalities.

Various SARS outbreaks
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) was a global epidemic in 2003 that caused 8,000 infections and 774 deaths across 29 countries.
Since the original epidemic, there have been six escapes of the virus from laboratories — four in Beijing, and an additional one each in Singapore and Taiwan.

In all cases, the virus escaped due to negligence and human error. Fortunately, none of those escapes led to a renewed outbreak.

Outside China too!

The 2007 Foot and Mouth (FMD) outbreak in the UK
FMD is a highly transmissible disease that infects cloven-hoofed animals. Outbreaks of the disease can cause billions of dollars in economic damage as millions of animals may need to be culled to limit the disease's spread. In 2007, 278 animals in the UK became infected with FMD after the virus escaped from a biosafety lab four kilometers away. The outbreak required 1,578 animals to be culled and cost an estimated 200 million pounds.

Smallpox outbreaks in Great Britain
From 1963 to 1978, there were three smallpox escapes from two different laboratories. All three were due to poor standards and bad practices within the labs. Three cases and at least 80 deaths were linked to the outbreaks.

The 1995 Venezuelan equine encephalitis (VEE) outbreak
In 1995, 10,000 people in Venezuela and 75,000 people in Colombia fell ill with a VEE strain that had escaped from a lab. The outbreak caused upwards of 311 deaths and 3,000 cases of neurological complications.

Then there's Russia...

2000 - Russia
Smallpox infected 8 young children in Vladivostock who had played with discarded ampoules of smallpox vaccine has now been confirmed by the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation. Smallpox Russia

Just last year a lab explosion tore through a Russian bioweapons lab that stores Smallpox, Ebola and other nasty things.

1970 The Aral smallpox incident was a July 30, 1971 outbreak of the viral disease which occurred as a result of a field test at a Soviet biological weapons facility on an island in the Aral Sea. The incident sickened ten people, of whom three died, and came to widespread public notice only in 2002.

[1Old Pro]

The over hype from the media is akin to pulling fire alarms when there is no fire, a crime.

[ridesthemiles]

China didn’t tell the world that they had a problem. Wuhan is a travel center. 60,000 people a day fly in & out of there.

Perfect vector for sending contaminated people out to harm the rest of the world.

China needs to literally PAY for all this damage.

Their own economy will be sharply cut back when the USA & other countries stop making so many products there.

Pharmaceuticals in particular need to NEVER be made there for consumption in other countries. Why would the health of BILLIONS of other countries be controlled by China?

BEYOND STUPID.