Posted on 03/15/2020 1:35:29 PM PDT by cba123
Fatality rate of 7.2%. Much higher than other countries are reporting.
“Why is Singapore increasing? I thought they said hot weather was going to stop this stuff.”
Air conditioning, dude, and since the US doesn’t have air conditioning, we’ll be through with this virus when summer hits. Thank goodness!
Its running through the Philippines now. Its always summer there. Not a ton of AC.
Flubros new thing is that it has been circulating for months. They then give anecdotal evidence explaining how sick their aunt was last month and tested negative for flu.
According to MSNBC..which I totally believe. /s
Huh?
A bit of sarcasm to make fun of the people who claim that the slanty eyes of Asians collects the virus, or whatever other excuse they have to say it will simply ‘pass over’ the United States.
Considering the nutty stuff around here..I thought you were serious.
For those keeping score, as of today the number of cases outside of China has now exceeded the number of cases inside of China. Which also means those global numbers that showed recoveries exceeding new infections will now reverse.
LOL!
My opinion is that this will last until may and hotter weather. India and subsharan Africa are barely affected. Ditto for Thailand.
In my opinion the virus spread will minimize with summer
Great - bring in a term to scare even more folks...
“Concerns over the potential dangers of gain-of-function research intensified in 2010, when researchers studied the transmission of the highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1) virus, which has a case-fatality rate of 56%, according to WHO. On Oct. 17, 2014, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the Department of Health and Human Services stopped funding and declared a voluntary moratorium on gain-of-function research on severe acute respiratory syndrome, Middle East respiratory syndrome, and all influenza viruses. Recently, the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) awarded $1.1 million to Gryphon Scientific to assess gain-of-function research to help the NSABB determine which studies should return and whether this research should resume at all.
What Gain of Function data is actually out there for this virus? Please, no “predictive models” w/o actual data.
Kind of ironic - we know that the Deep State and others use fear as a way to steer and control the people - we had the commie/nuke war threat until the Berlin Wall came down then it wasn’t viable anymore and up pops Globull Warming, which has many in fear that we’re gonna destroy the Earth even as we do less harm than past generations and none of the data actually supports anything but the earth’s climate and Mother Nature do not now, and never did have a “balance” and even if they did, we have no idea of how to maintain one or ‘fix’ things...all our efforts end up causing more harm....the coronavirus scare is no different - the panic-induced knee-jerking will cause more harm than the virus.
Folks who would be up in arms if the government decided to tell them they could not move freely are now begging that same government to lock them, and everyone else, down....I’d wager if, after doing that, the story ‘evolved” they would also go meekly to barb-wire surrounded camps/tent cities because the “latest info” said that’s the only way to stop it.
Even though we know that they use fear to guide and control us, so many can’t see it through the red haze of insane panic....they not only welcome the government controls, they beg for them...
And the fear mongers will try to leverage it...
Reminds me of a saying, by Ben Franklin, that many FReepers, who are now acting insane, used to showcase:
“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”
Have often wondered at the aphorism “a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.”
That’s not to say that having incomplete information can’t be problematic. It would indeed be tragic if someone undertook to rebuild their automobile’s transmission knowing only how to take it apart. Even trying to bake a cake without knowing all the necessary ingredients would be unfortunate.
Fortunately(?), life in general is not a precise process. Making decisions requires information — incomplete or not. Donald Rumsfeld was correct when he pointed out that there is what we know, what we know we don’t know, and also what we don’t know that we don’t know.
How then to organize, plan, and execute? Based upon that information which we possess. Unless that information is constituted, or even perhaps contrived, to be a bad basis for planning, then it is a better basis for planning — even if it is but a “little knowledge” — than less information. For in everyday life even a little knowledge is better than no knowledge.
I was on the phone this morning with Little Miss Lurkin (now all growed up) who was relating the story of two lawyers on the east coast. One became a super-spreader at both his firm and place of worship. Another went home one day with “flu symptoms” and died that night of the Wuhan SARs. Apparently these events made quite an impression in firms across the country, for although lawyers are as hard to kill as cockroaches, they also have the roachlike instinct for self preservation.
Hadn’t thought of “Gain of Function” as a scare term. Mostly because the Wuhan Flu definitely does have gain of function. In fact, the gain of function is why it spreads so efficiently. The intent is not to scare people. Only to participate in the dissemination of information which people can — and should — use to understand what is happening, and what to do.
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