20 Shelby Co. residents currently being monitored for Coronavirus after traveling to China

wmcactionnews5.com ^ | Feb 11, 2020 | ?wmcactionnews5

[ReformedBeckite]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - Twenty people in Shelby County are being monitored by the health department in the fight against coronavirus. While there are no confirmed cases of the illness in Tennessee, Mississippi or Arkansas, health officials are upping their prevention protocols to keep the virus from reaching the Mid-South.

The Shelby County Health Department says those being monitored are Shelby County residents who reported recently traveling back from China. Right now, however, those individuals are not considered suspect or under investigation.............

[stevio]

The whole state of New York and New Jersey?

[wardaddy]

I drive 200 miles a day and meet so many folks ,
....I’m 62

I’d look funny in a mask

Cheated death over and over and over

Better to use resources on those with more life left

Course that’s precisely who Spanish flu killed mostly as I recall....young adults and teens

My mom was terrified of things you can’t see that can kill you

But she died brave to her credit

I’m just not like that ...my wife is kinda like my mom...fearful ish

I worry more about my children ....that phone rings at middle of the night over and over....that will get ya scared quick

Three years ago I got that call....my daughter....I didn’t answer at first too slow...then she texted that it was an emergency...I was so relieved when I saw that text at least she was alive if she could text obviously

But it was bad news...and selfishly my first thought was thank God it wasn’t her but someone else lost a child that night...I feel guilty to admit that

Whew...

[Tennessee Conservative]

I guess. They didn’t ask about California or WA, just NJ, NY, and Chicago. I thought it was a little odd.

[Tennessee Conservative]

I understand. I’m 65 but I have asthma so I always get my flu shot but still take precautions when in crowds this time of year. My husband is 82. We have people that still need us so we play it safe during flu season.

[Pelham]

Some are starting to suspect that this thing is lethal for ethnic Chinese but maybe not for others. A genetic component.

[Malsua]

In a couple weeks, if there is still a ban on China flights coming to the US, there should be no more stories like this, ‘recently returned from China and now suspect of having coronavirus’ as the 14 day span will be over and no new cases coming from China.

My nephew lives in Hong Kong. He Flew from HK to Japan and then on to LA. This was Sunday. He's traveling around the US this week and part of next, then repeating the Journey back. Don't fool yourself thinking that no one from China can get here. There is still a constant stream of people, they are just taking different routes.

[DannyTN]

We need a plan. Here's mine.

1. We announce a giant festival in Memphis. Free BBQ, Free Drinks, Free deserts, Free Music, the works. We don't have to follow through, this is just to distract them and keep them from scattering.
2. We get fire fighting planes to start dropping disinfectant asap. The city was overdue for it anyway. And if we start now, maybe it will buy us a couple of days.
3. We call up the national guard from TN and all the surrounding states.
4. We might have to lie to them, but the goal is to have them barricade all the roads out at once.
5. We need hunters and lots of them.
6. We put Arkansas duck hunters guarding the river. Wouldn't hurt to have some dogs too.
7. We need a high visibility strip, maybe 1000 years wide in a circle around the city to spot and stop anyone trying to leave.
8. We could probably use the interstate system for that initially together with the river.
9. We need drones monitoring the barrier and the river.
10. No boats allowed to leave unless they were just passing through and their origins can be accounted for.
11. We get the teams from the Southern border to come up and start building a wall around the city.

[wardaddy]

The multicultural crowd was not like that

[Pelham]

They will insist to the Coronavirus that race is an artificial category, an abstraction. COVID-19 says “hold muh Tsingtao ‘n watch this”

[null and void]

Monitoring. I feel safer already. NOT!

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.

[LilFarmer]

Getting infected or dying? Getting infected, yes, several. Like super spreader in England

[DannyTN]

Quarantining in California is what should happen.

Monitoring in Tennessee is probably what will happen. And that’s a recipe for disaster.

CDC should step up and order a quarantine.

[Sybeck1]

I drive into Memphis five days a week, so....

[FreedomPoster]

You remind me I need to check the status of my N95 stash.

[vetvetdoug]

I'm going to go the Dyersburg route to Arkansas for the interim and avoid the Memphis route for the next few months. Memphis won't be a safe area if this gets out, the natives will go berserk and the city will become lawless.

[razorback-bert]

Let’s play it safe, nuke it from space.

[LucyT]

https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6

This Johns Hopkins map shows 14 confirmed cases in the US as of 2-12-2020.

[Tennessee Conservative]

We use those on the farm but I keep a stash of the kind medical people wear for being in crowds in flu season. Lighter and more comfortable and fit in my purse better. 😁

[DannyTN]

Yeah, I thought about nukes as a plan B, but Nashville is downwind.

[trebb]

I cannot see the rationale for writing/posting this story about folks, with no actual expectations of being infected are “being monitored” - except to increase alarm.