[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

The Coronavirus is apparently EXTREMELY contagious via several mediums of transmission. How do you stop that? Hmmm???

This will kill ebay sales from goods from China and Asia. Uh oh...

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Filthy lucre not allowed!

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.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Disinfecting the currency? What does this tell us? That disease lives a long time on the surface of things.

[Moonman62]

Why don’t these scare articles ever mention the number who have recovered?

It’s 8,580 as of this posting.

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

[rigelkentaurus]

I guess China is officially acknowledging that they launder money.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Wow, now they are on fool’s errands. How many times does a bill change hands before it finds its way back to a bank?

In the US, it is said a $1 or $5 bill changes hands on average about 110 times per year. That’s just less than ten times per month or a new “owner” every three days. I guess bills spend a lot of time in wallets, ATM machines, store tills.

Can bills really be a major vector?

Maybe they will require every store to send every bill every night to a bank for disinfecting.

[Moonman62]

The virus, which has infected 66,492 people in China...

...

There are 1.382 billion people in China who are not infected.

[PA Engineer]

Thanks for the post. I watched the video and question how effective their UVC method is, however it is good they are packing up the money (fomites) for 14 days.

I'm sure the flu bros will tell us this is a panic reaction. LOL.

[444Flyer]

What about the little number buttons everyone has to punch their code into at stores? Which is dirtier, cash or hundreds of people touching those filthy buttons every day in stores everywhere?

[redcatcherb412]

Wouldn’t irradiating items, cash, mail etc etc have the same disinfecting effect as irradiating food does ?

[GOPJ]

China disinfects BANK NOTES and quarantines them for 14 days...

Amazon needs to do the same with packages and banks need to flood ATM machines (after each use) with ultraviolet...

And most of all - the Post Office... Before they hand out mail to their carriers... and give the virus to the rest of us...

[tet68]

Hmmmm. New money is never a good sign.

[Starcitizen]

Filthy Communist country, filthy Communist money.

[AdmSmith]

This could as well be a way to increase M1, i.e the currency in circulation, to try to avoid a Chinese recession.