[Zhang Fei]

Two dead Italians. My feeling is that from an epidemiological perspective, the impact of the coronavirus inside China is likely the tip of the iceberg, given that the Chinese are likely to be highly resistant to its effects, due to tens of thousands of years of frequent exposure. They eat things fairly often that just about zero non-Chinese consider to be food - pangolins and bats that are hosts for the coronavirus. Expecting non-Chinese to be immune to the coronavirus is like expecting pre-Columbian Indians with no exposure to smallpox to be less vulnerable than the conquistadors who passed it on to them.

This is why we may eventually need a much more comprehensive quarantine (including involuntary confinement) applied to anyone of whatever ethnicity or race emerging from China. The likelihood is that if people outside of China are infected in any numbers, the body counts will dwarf what we’ve seen in China, much as natives in the Americas died like flies from smallpox.

[Williams]

Except we’ve seen no evidence of any group dying like flies anywhere.

And yesterday someone was claiming evidence the virus affects Asians more severely.

[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.

[calenel]

No. Look closer.

[familyop]

Yes, people of east Asian descent would be more likely on average than people of western descent to have some immunity. Here it comes, maybe.

[dp0622]

Boy Every Report goes against what you are saying.

Westerners are recovering at home from this thing in a lot of cases or leaving the hospital in a relatively short time period

Asians are dropping like flies, literally.

I thin this will completely and utterly devastate the Asian populations of the world like the Plague did to Europe.

[miserare]

Now I am officially scared.

My granddaughter and her husband live in Turin, snd travel all over Northern Italy for their jobs.

[rfp1234]

The Italian sports ministry has announced that ALL sporting events in the Regions of Lombardia and Veneto have been canceled until further notice.

That includes 3 Serie A soccer matches. One of those is in Milan, where attendance is usually over 60,000. Postponing a major Sunday match in Italy is a very big deal.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

And again...

Reactions of governments hiding the truth about the seriousness of this disease have given me all the information I needed. This virus is really bad and China specifically has not come out and directly said so. The illness is far worse in the way it shows symptoms (or doesn't) and infects people.

It is far worse when one is sick with it than they are telling people. And, the mortality rate is worse and HEALTHY people who should be able to weather it are DYING. The coverup is so the very rich can move their assets to safety as much as possible before panic sets in and all hell breaks loose. The record lows on Treasury bond yields (very few understand what that means) and the sharp uptick in the price of gold tell me all I need to know about that. Batten down the hatches. It's going to be a rough ride.

[sauropod]

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[Hot Tabasco]

Italy reports second coronavirus death

Heck, the Provenzano family has killed more Italians than this virus.