An old TB clinic-isolation colony. circa 1909
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Posted on 02/09/2020 9:33:59 PM PST by SpeedyInTexas
I guess 1 every 13 days would tend to get on your nerves after awhile! But government knows best.
Even that might be wishful thinking. Those people will need Psychiatric care, too. They are already going a little nuts.
“I think we can get a good idea of the real infection and mortality rates, now that they’re in a first-world country and not the lying, third-world Communist China.”
I think Westernized countries will handle things better - containment, treatment and eventually a vaccine or cure - than the Chinese who are more preoccupied with saving face than saving lives.
The vast majority of the reported fatalities have been in the Wu Han region (Hubei Province, but probably Wu Han itself) where the mortality rate is above 30% (871 deaths, 1795 recovered). There have been few deaths anywhere else (39 other deaths; 37 in China proper, 1 in Hong Kong and 1 in the Philippines).
So far no deaths in a country with modern robust medical infrastructure.
It’s early, yet, for the rest of the world. This thing had a month or more to run free in Wu Han and the rest of China before people in the rest of the world started to pay real attention (”it’s just the flu”, yeah, right).
The next couple of weeks should show us how this is going to go outside of China. Regardless of how well the rest of the world deals with it, I think it’s too late for China and this thing is going to wreak havoc there for a while until it burns itself out (I pray that I am wrong on that point).
I wouldn’t go to Central/South America or Africa for a while, either. We don’t know what’s happening there and I doubt they would recognize it there early enough to take effective measures.
Several thousand.
Japan is an archipelago of how many islands?
Even a small uninhabited island set up with a isolation camp would probably offer better conditions than are being experienced aboard the cruise ship.
Several thousand.
Japan is an archipelago of how many islands?
Even a small uninhabited island set up with a isolation camp would probably offer better conditions than are being experienced aboard the cruise ship.
Now this is what I call “cabin fever”
(New England Journal of Medicine - NEJM, 2004) Evidence of Airborne Transmission of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Virus
“...Residents of the floors at the middle and upper levels in building E were at a significantly higher risk than residents on lower floors; this finding is consistent with a rising plume of contaminated warm air in the air shaft generated from a middle-level apartment unit....”
https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa032867
Bad
There was a youtube of some British couple and they seemed to be doing okay, but they had a nice large state room with a balcony. Showing off the bathroom. “And here’s the fancy Japanese toilet with all the various spray features. It’s the main entertainment for us at the moment.”
The man said something like “Our early cruises we had inside berths. Small, no windows. I can’t imagine being stuck in one for even a day - much less an extended time.”
Getting 3,700 hundred people off a ship into single isolation rooms would be a massive task. Most hospitals only have a relatively few isolation rooms.
I honestly don’t know how they would facilitate a task like this.
I swear if I ever see an Antifa rally I’m going spread the idea through the crowd that they’re wearing masks because they have the Coronavirus. Then say that I’m getting out of there before they give it to me.
One way or another, I don’t think that cruise ship will have very many repeat customers.
i was just thinking that most likely the ship will need to be scrapped or at least renamed and sent to another part of the planet if this ever ends..
Well they let the people on that cruise ship dock 20 minutes from my house in Bayonne.
I had no problem with them being stuck at sea.
Better than the thousands that might die from releasing those who they THINK aren’t infected.
In this case, yeah one culture was more than equal.
They did the smart thing
An old TB clinic-isolation colony. circa 1909
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That’s what they are supposed to do by international treaty. Plague ships are to be given safe harbor and supplies, but they are to be quarantined until the disease passes one way or the other.
It’s definitely cursed forever more as is, that’s for sure.
“Seems like the Japanese are treating the ship as isolation... which is very unfortunate for the as-yet uninfected on board”
They might as well scuttle that ship when it’s all said and done. What fool would book passage on it?
160/3700 = 3.5% . I wonder if that’s a low or high rate of transfer? (just sticking with person-to-person contact and ignoring AC) ? If it’s P2P will the %% go down as the sick are removed? If it’s AC-driven, will it go up no matter how many are removed?
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