Ground Reports on the "Deadly" China Virus, please...

Vanity | March 23, 2020 | Vanity

[Wissa]

But if one strain can get you and then the next one can too, that’s very bad.

Of course it's bad. Because that would mean that your solution would have to be put back in place every time there is another mutation. I suppose we could go into isolation for the next 100 years as new strains show up.

True, but containment is still a worthy battle, even if it is ultimately futile.

Not always. You could "cure" people of cancer if you just deprive the cancer cells of any oxygen. There's the concept of "First, do no harm". There WILL be people who have spent their lives building up their small businesses or their lives that will fall into despair and depression when their financial lives are shattered by decisions made that they can no longer have an income. Some will decide to commit suicide. I don't value their lives as any less worthy than (for an example) the brother of the Lt. Governor of Minnesota, who just died from the Coronavirus. Of course, he had a compromised immune system because he's been treated for cancer for the past six months.

I'm not in that position anymore, but I remember what it was like to scrimp and save my few extra dollars from my paycheck week after week, eventually getting a few hundred dollars in my checking account after a few months, and then having it all wiped out by one car repair bill. Containment deprives more people of a paycheck, leaving them incapable of buying goods and services, putting the people who previously provided those goods and services out of work. Containment with no clear endpoint will lead to Great Depression levels of unemployment.

IMO, a better solution is just to remind people of the basics of avoiding illness that have been around for millennia: don't eat rotten meat, reduce exposure to people who are obviously sick, wash your hands, etc.

IMO, people should learn to take responsibility for the consequences of their own decisions. I have a sister who has cancer. Her husband is on disability since he had a stroke several years ago. But do you suppose either one will give up their cigarettes? I have another sister with extremely high blood pressure. But do you suppose she'll take the step of doing ANY exercise instead of just taking prescribed medications for the problem?

Instead of putting a whole lot of people out of work, just teach the people who are most at risk that it is THEIR responsibility to protect themselves.

[bboop]

Bort, I’m with you. I don’t appreciate being called a moron either.

[spintreebob]

GA DPH Lists 12 Deaths at PHOEBER PUTNAM Hospita.
162 sick in SE GA. Virtually all cases in SE GA track back to 2 Funerals. Several cases outside SE GA track back to those 2 funerals. There are 79 of unknown location. The odds are that 10% of those or 8 more are from SE GA.

There are far more cases in the Cobb-Cherokee-Bartow and NE area. There is a small cluster in Carroll County on the AL border.

The difference with SE GA is the high number for low population.

In contrast, the entire east and east-central area from Hart County down to Valdosta including Augusta and Savannah has very few cases.
Muscogee area has only 4.

High Populaton Gwinnett-Hall-and NE has only 106, which is small considering the population. In fact the most positive story has got to be that high population Gwinnett and its people are doing something right.

[billyboy15]

Last I read (yesterday or day before) there were approx. 35,000,000 Americans with this yrs flu and approx. 25-27,000 dead.

[billyboy15]

You are a panic troll yourself.

This is not nor will it ever pan out the way the pearl clutcher’s imagined or I think wanted. The death rate from this China Virus is not even close to that of the common flu AND the common flu is killing a whole lot more young people including children than this China thing.

To date I read not a single person under 15 has had an issue with this China Virus while thousands have died from the common flu.

Italy has what seems like a high death rate because they are attributing EVERY death to the China Virus even if they died from a condition they had previously. If ONLY China Virus deaths are counted Italy’s death toll drops by 88%.

Is this virus real? Sure it is. Is it the Armageddon it is being portrayed as? NO and it isn’t even close.

We are being played big time and I’m guess MAGA Man is aware of this and will do the right thing by LEADING us out from under this blanket of bullshit the media pukes have laid on us.