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Hate to start another Coronavirus thread, but this article is interesting because an actual study based on the numbers relating to this quarantined cruise ship suggest that this virus behaives differently than what we are being led to believe.
1 posted on 03/17/2020 7:00:52 AM PDT by fireman15
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Half of the 17% of passengers infected had no symptoms at all.


2 posted on 03/17/2020 7:02:06 AM PDT by fireman15
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Good catch. Thanks.


3 posted on 03/17/2020 7:05:44 AM PDT by pt17
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Because it is not nearly as deadly and dangerous as all of the Panic mongers say it is. I believe months and years from now when all of the numbers finally come out and are crunched the WHO and alarmists will have egg on their face over this. There will be hearings with the CDC heads where they will be gulping glasses of water placed on green felt tables in Congress while dodging questions.


5 posted on 03/17/2020 7:13:21 AM PDT by frogjerk (We are conservatives. Not libertarians, not "fiscal conservatives", not moderates)
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“PLEASE LOOK AT ITALY!”...they scream


6 posted on 03/17/2020 7:13:54 AM PDT by frogjerk (We are conservatives. Not libertarians, not "fiscal conservatives", not moderates)
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The official numbers for the Diamond Princess Cruise Ship:

Confirmed: 696
Deaths: 7
Recovered: 325
Active: 364


10 posted on 03/17/2020 7:18:50 AM PDT by outpostinmass2
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“the epidemic RAGED (emphasis my own) on the ship”

Seriously? Hyperbole much?


14 posted on 03/17/2020 7:22:31 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam ("Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength" - Corrie ten Boom)
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Interesting how the Diamond Princess and the Grand Princess, which are British registered, show up on the Coronavirus Dashboard in the U.S. column.

Possibly to inflate the CVD-19 numbers for the U.S.?

20 posted on 03/17/2020 7:26:49 AM PDT by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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Why? Because the press has gaslighted people into thinking this is the deadliest bug ever and will kill everyone, but it is no stronger than the flu.

China used the bug to get rid of the anti-Communist protesters in China.

The liberal press is using the bug to hurt our economy as that is what Trump has been running on.


23 posted on 03/17/2020 7:35:29 AM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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To: fireman15; Travis McGee; All

Great post; thread. Thanks. Freeper McGee’s great threat assessment very, very early on was to watch the cruise ships.


36 posted on 03/17/2020 7:52:08 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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EXCELLENT!!!!!!! Article.

The scariest part is that near HALF of all people who have it DON’T KNOW IT (NO symptoms).

Hey, I’m not sick gramma.

Well, unless you had the specific Corona Virus test, you CAN’T know since HALF of the people with it don’t know it.


37 posted on 03/17/2020 7:52:09 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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Thank you for posting. It is refreshing to see data versus hysteria. I have never been less happy with the Trump administration.


38 posted on 03/17/2020 7:52:52 AM PDT by alamogal (Give em Hell Donald!)
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So, if you have to choose one or the other would you want to be aboard the Diamond Princess with COV19 being passed around or the 1918 Spanish flu?


52 posted on 03/17/2020 8:04:11 AM PDT by TalBlack
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Look, Trump did the right things. What choice did he have? Could be a chump either way, best to err on the side of caution.

With 50% of the infected having NO SYMPTOMS, self quarantine and social distancing makes perfect sense to stopping/controlling the spread.

This too shall pass.


58 posted on 03/17/2020 8:10:57 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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I’m no epidemiologist, but wouldn’t the fatality rate in the beginning of an epidemic be much lower than later on because all the advanced care, medical equipment, and healthy doctors and nurses is available and concentrated on few patients?

As the system gets more and more loaded, there is less and less care for each individual patient until you reach the triage point where the oldest and weakest patients get zero care.

Even the oldest people on Diamond Princess got the best available care in the hospitals. Today, the oldest infected Italians are told “there’s nothing we can do for you. Enjoy your slow death.”


62 posted on 03/17/2020 8:13:23 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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Great find! Thanks for posting that!


69 posted on 03/17/2020 8:21:43 AM PDT by Mr Radical (In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act)
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bkmk


83 posted on 03/17/2020 8:53:21 AM PDT by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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Cruise ships usually have better-than-hospital levels of hygiene, sanitation, and disease prevention due to the prevalence of norovirus.

Simple as that.


96 posted on 03/17/2020 9:44:09 AM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
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Ping


115 posted on 03/17/2020 5:59:04 PM PDT by fastrock
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