Posted on 02/26/2020 5:09:52 AM PST by david1292
South Korean coronavirus cases jumped again Wednesday and the U.S. military confirmed its first case among soldiers based in the Asian country, with his case and many others connected to a southeastern city with an illness cluster.
South Korea’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said 216 of the 284 new cases were in Daegu, where the government has been mobilizing public health tools to contain the spread of the outbreak, and in neighboring towns.
The U.S. military said the 23-year-old soldier was in self-quarantine at his off-base residence. He had been based in Camp Carroll in a town near Daegu, and visited both Carroll and nearby Camp Walker in recent days, according to the statement.
South Korean authorities and U.S. military health professionals were tracing his contacts to determine if other people may have been exposed.
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I noticed today that Lufthansa shut down all Germany-to-China flights (13 of the bulky Airbus planes are sitting on the ground, with no destinations). I expect same Lufthansa strategy to occur with South Korea destinations by the end of the weekend, and Japan by end of next week. Other airlines will follow suit.
Could be six to eight weeks before any flights start back up.
And ABC is giddy they can say “an American soldier” is infected.
That will help their stock prices.
At the end of this....airlines, hotel chains, airports, car rental companies, and cruise-ship companies.....all will suffer to a major degree for 2020.
Better than the China data.
I guess South Korea is a true indicator how fast this virus can spread.
1261 cases, 12 deaths 13 serious, 5 critical, 24 recovered
Is it fair to state a 10% death rate of infected?
If they have (24 recovered, 13 serious, 5 critical) are the rest still laying around at home sick or in some hospital?
Tourism is going to take a hit. No one is going to travel with this spreading around.
That would be 1 percent death rate. 10 percent would be 120.
Is it fair to state 1% death rate of infected?
I understand.
Many don’t have a clue. Most think this whole thing is a health issue. It’s really a logistics and systems issue. But they won’t figure that out until the lettuce doesn’t show up because a fan belt on the truck broke.
That’s a great example. Go look on any farm, at the number of ‘belts’ that are required to make most of the equipment work. Then look where they are commonly made today (most likely come from China). So go insert a 6-to-12 month delay in belt production and delivery to warehouses in the US.
Farmer Jones wakes up and has a piece of equipment that is down, and he’s suddenly calling up a Peruvian company which makes a generic belt to fit this item requiring the belt. He has to get some 12-year-old kid from the church who speaks Spanish to come over, and converse to make this deal occur.
Imagine millions of situations like this per day, and your economy dependent on little entrepreneurs in some rural valley making products out of thin air.
My biggest fear isn’t dying from this virus.
It’s chaos when JIT supply chains total fubar because we’ve made China a single point of failure for our economic wellbeing and even our health.
Does mini Mike know how to grow lettuce?
He is not the first US soldier infected if you get my drift.
Close down the houses of ill repute! : )
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