Posted on 02/25/2020 11:17:14 AM PST by Mariner
Health officials in the United States warned Tuesday that the spread of the novel coronavirus in the country appears inevitable, marking a significant change in tone as global travel disruptions continued to worsen, South Korea neared 1,000 cases and Iran reported at least 15 deaths.
China and South Korea announced new cases of the coronavirus, raising concerns in both nations about how long it could take for normal life to return. South Korea confirmed 144 more cases, bringing its total to 977, the most outside China. President Moon Jae-in visited the city of Daegu, where more than half of the country’s confirmed cases have been found, Tuesday afternoon local time.
Travel disruptions continued to spread, with the United Arab Emirates, one of the world’s most critical aviation hubs, saying it would suspend all travel to and from Iran, where authorities confirmed that the death toll has reached at least 15. In Iran, an opposition lawmaker and the deputy health minister tested positive for the virus as the death toll there climbed.
Early Tuesday, global markets appeared to stabilize after Monday’s heavy losses — until the Dow Jones fell 600 points, wiping out a 150-point gain.
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Good one. They can always preface it with, "Some people are suggesting ..." to cover their behinds.
Time to crash the market and ruin the Trump economy.
Exactly.. The last thing we need is the criminal Left feeling like they have nothing to lose.. It would be a scene from Escape From New York.
Wow.. TV Media sure aren’t reporting much on those quarantines.
Right now I’m wishing I lived on 150 acres in Tennessee with a Mountain man husband!
Actually, that has always been a dream. Heh.
You are now trolling.
Please stop.
Spread in the US is inevitable.
The economic damage will probably kill more people in the United States (and possibly even in China) than the virus does.
In the words of one of my favorite philosophers, Hank Williams, Jr.
“A Country Boy Can Survive”
Government propaganda alert! Government propaganda alert!
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If you want to know why you can ignore these idiots just read any number of my thousands of posts on this subject
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https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3819424/posts?page=4#4
Ping to proust’s post with archived news stories.
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So, you compare the entire year of a virus to another virus that has been in the country 4 weeks.
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In the past 4 months, approximately 25,000 people have died from the flu in the US! The Coronavirus has killed less than 3,000 so far!
Interesting how you Hypochondriacs completely ignore this and try to spin Coronavirus as a pandemic! You nuts are totally irresponsible!
Gee, please back and tell me where I’ve suggested this is a pandemic or I’ve incited “panic.”
Your relationship with the facts is loose at best.
Lets talk China. We can both agree their numbers are bullshit. I think they are woefully low. You probably think they are hight. So..for just a second lets look at the round numbers we have.
In China, they get the flu. We can agree on that. Its probably only slightly worse than the flu here. But lets assume we use the US numbers as a baseline.
In China they state they’ve had about 80,000 cases. These are cases that have been tested in the hospital. During a normal flu season a vast majority of flu cases are not tested or in the hospital. ?
According to the CDC, in the US, in 2018-2019 there were 35,500,000 (10% of pop) people who got the flu. The number hospitalized was 496,000 (2.4% of all cases). 32,400 deaths. That is 6.5% of all hospitalize and .0091269% of all infecterd.
This would “equate” roughly to the cases in China—based on their definition of cases.
Using some basic math, and the admittedly shitty CCP numbers, the Chinese people in Wuhan (11 Mil pop) has 1.1 Million flu cases, 26,664 hospitalized, and a death rate—from the flu of 1,733.
So, for average flu season in Wuhan, drop on those hospitals 65,100 MORE hospitalizations—20% or so with a stay in an ICU bed of 14-20 days on a ventilator or breathing assistance. On top of the flu deaths, of 1,733—add in 2,615 more deaths.
If you wish to compare the virility of the disease, lets look at apples to apples using the “best” numbers possible and assuming “best case” scenarios.
If that one-to-one comparison doesn’t make you ass pucker just a little bit you are either willfully trolling, not thinking this through, or trolling for some other entity.
And remember, in those hospitals in Wuhan, they normally treated every kind of disease and illness that would be treated in NYC or LA or any other urban setting of that kind.
Imagine showing up there with a heart attack or stroke. You would be dead before the ambulance unloaded.
The ONLY way they could come to any estimated number dead during the Spanish Flu was to, years later—many years later—compare local census data and figure out the difference in the places that kept ANY records...and extrapolate it around the world.
We have computers but they are not much better.
So, you look at this like the flu. You write as if this is an either/or situation. Its not. This is a concurrent, “novel” situation that NO system in the world is prepared for. You are seeing how ill prepared by our CDC trying to sort out a couple dozen places. Do you think that’s because they want to share the wealth? Don’t be stupid. Ask yourself how many bio-contained rooms there are in your local hospital. I used to work at a 300 bed hospital. We had two. One on a floor. And one in the ER. And they were almost always filled some shit or another.
So, please. Tell me how this is ranting and raving and inciting panic. Tell me how this is just another virus.
Run the numbers. Show me some facts. I shared mine with you. Show me something other than Rush Limbaugh and WebMd./
Finally, show some damned compassion for the people locked up in their apartment complexes dying. I am stunned by the lack of compassion and knowledge around here. You believe what your media “stars” tell you. Unless you don’t like them. Take out a calculator and do some thinking.
Lots of words, and you haven’t disputed:
MORE PEOPLE ARE DYING FROM INFLUENZA A & B THAN CORONAVIRUS!
There are in Wuhan. You idiot. That is where this has been. There are 254% of the flue deaths, making the assumption the flu is as bad there as it is here.
And the ‘effing flue season isn’t over there.
What part of like-comparisons don’t you understand?
You keep wanting to compare an experience where something isn’t—to where it is. Are you just being be insolent or are you retarded.
Once again, there are less than 3,000 worldwide deaths from COVID-19! 25,000 people have died from influenza in the past 4 months, and you and your ilk are asking us to abandon our common sense and believe COVID-19 is near pandemic proportions!
The left loves this hysteria!
You refuse to address the point.
Where this thing has taken hold it is not only worse than your A or B flu, it is happening on top of it.
Sure, it hasn’t hit the US yet. And I am not saying it will.
I am saying you are missing, and not even addressing the point. Your comparison would be just as viable comparing it to the flu on Mars.
If you disagree that’s fine. But your logic is seriously flawed.
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