[goldstategop]

Quarantines are seldom effective in the long term. This buys the Chinese government some time.

Whether other measures they take will bring it under control remains to be seen.

[ifinnegan]

Hysteria.

This does, though, serve the ChiComs in being able to institute martial law as an exercise which will come in very handy if there is ever a wide scale movement against them.

[Red Badger]

Quarantines do work.

For the people on the outside.

For those inside, not so much..................

[struggle]

I’m not too worried, but I am a school teacher.

[ClearCase_guy]

Perhaps I’m wrong, but this stuff gets hyped every year. Maybe this is the year it’s a real thing and we all die. But I suspect this is nothing at all.

The media really wants everyone to be scared all the time. That way strong government can save us.

[bkopto]

The leftist Promethians ought to be doing handsprings over a global pandemic that threatens billions of people. After all, they worship death and want to reduce the world’s population to 500 million (as long as its not them).

[null and void]

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.

[blam]

Radio:

"Stock market down due to report of second confirmed case of coronavirus in Chicago"

[TangledUpInBlue]

God’s way of culling the filthy herd

[Mariner]

It’s already everywhere with zero chance of containment.

14 day incubation and heartiness for several days on cold surfaces ensured that.

By the time the 10th person fell ill, it was already out of the bag.

Hope for benign mutations.

[cuban leaf]

Only a small percentage, in a nation with lousy health care, die.

And we’re all gonna die anyway.

[Born to Conserve]

The Chicoms don’t care if millions die, they just don’t want it to be disruptive. If the can slow the spread down so that people who have been exposed and recovered can pick up the reins as more fall ill, then all is well.

And as they say, we all die eventually.

We care about millions dying, but we don’t do anything intelligent to prevent it.

[bgill]

Wuhan has a population of NYC and LA combined. They could block major highways but anything beyond that is completely upon the people. Pinky swear you won’t leave. Just wait until the natives get restless.

[GulfMan]

Get real, nothing can be done to stop any kind of serious out-break, it has to run it’s course, that’s all there is to it.

[Sans-Culotte]

Greta should be pleased. Nothing like a mass extinction plague to get rid of those pesky human earth polluters.

[TangoLimaSierra]

He cited China's plans to build a 1,000-bed hospital in Wuhan in just 10 days.

Think I'd rather take my chances with the virus than walk into a Chinese-built hospital that was built in 10 days.

[SgtHooper]

Actually, the lockdown is to save those inside the lockdown, who will be cured first. Those on the outside are phuk’t!

[MayflowerMadam]

Now’s a good time for POTUS to make a deal with the Chinese PTB to open up the internet to all people. With better communications this might have been handled before it got out of control

[MayflowerMadam]

“’I can’t imagine there would be too many countries that would be able to do something on this scale as quickly as China has done,’ Kamradt-Scott said.”

Does this person even know for sure when this started? China isn’t too forthcoming with information, and this could’ve been in the works long before they let the cat out of the bag.

[Charles Martel]

Don't Fear the Reaper.