Posted on 01/26/2020 7:46:08 AM PST by GulfMan
With almost hourly reports of new cases of Coronavirus popping up in American cities it feels as though the enemy is stealthily parachuting in nearly unseen during the night. We hear reports but they seem so innocuous and far away that we seemingly aren't all that alarmed.
However, if one steps back and thinks through what a worst case or near worst case scenario might look like - we might be doing so in the final few weeks of what we will remember as our past lives, before the virus, wishing we would have soaked more of what we once had in, and perhaps even done more to prepare.
It's one thing to get good treatment for Pneumonia at a hospital, but once they are overwhelmed, you're left on your own, and possibly without access to antibiotics. It's a bit scary to think about but our system can and probably would become overwhelmed. With nothing to do but shelter in place businesses would begin suffer, chain of supply would falter, the economy dramatically begins to slow, and then it really starts to enter an area that we have no familiarity with. The Coronavirus could take 9 months to run it's course, maybe a year or more.
If, and I say "If" the number of dead were well into the millions here in the United States the impact to the economy would be far more than we can predict. This economic death would be the second lethal phase to the Coronavirus tragedy.
With possibly millions of homes being dumped onto the US real estate market existing home values would plummet. Most most current homeowners would see their values cut in half, possibly worse. What of the Survivors 401k plans? Worthless? Cut by half? Banking institutions begin to scramble to recover debt owed to them that they now cannot recoup, many fail, real estate holdings become pennies on the dollar. What about the millions who no longer have jobs, how do they subsist?
These are merely the the things we can think through, but it's the things "that we don't know that we don't know" that truly worry me.
I pray in two months this is all but a close call. However, our world seemingly doesn't take the possibly of a deadly pandemic serious, we just don't. We talk a good game but it's all talk. We love to say "when" not "if" it happens, but as we are unwilling to shut down international travel until it would be too late we're just not serious.
I think "it" will happen, but will have been preventable, maybe not this time, but sometime. The "when" is going to surely be our stupidity at play, and unable to heed our own warnings, many will someday suffer needlessly.
There would be no way to prepare under optimum circumstances. I have read enough over the weekend to see we have a situation where there may be little things we can do except ride it out.
Masks will not help.
Likely 20k more people exposed with a 1 week incubation time. I think it is too late, it is going global.
Like what happened in the 14th century after the major plagues :
So many people inheriting money from dead relatives will go on a spending spree.
Definitely fireworks.
I am NOT a doctor.
I am taking Vitamin D and making sure to drink OJ for my Vitamin C. I am taking a Centrum for Men daily multi-vitamin very day as well. I am taking a Zinc 50 mg every other day too. I also regularly take COQ10 (Jarrows) and CALM Magnesium (powder).
In case of emergency am buying NAC (N-acetyl cysteine) today it works on many pneumonia types. I also have Oregano Oil capsules by Gaia.
I eat yogurt every day to keep my gut flora healthy.
That’s all I can do for now, when reports starting getting worse in the US I will drastically limit my exposure to the public. I am sure there are lots of people running around now with it but I’m not willing to shut down just yet.
I’m with you and doing the some of the same stuff you are, plenty of exercise, fresh food, and vitamins. That is about all you can really do.
Yeah...see the B movie Escape from New York.
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