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........... More good news. This month, the Northern Hemisphere, which includes the countries with the most cases, starts heating up. Almost all respiratory viruses hate warm and moist weather. That’s why flu dies out in America every year by May at the latest and probably why Latin America has reported only 25 coronavirus cases. The Philippines, where I live, has about a third of the US population, but it’s so damned hot and humid here, so far we have had no confirmed cases of internal transmission.
1 posted on 03/10/2020 6:42:07 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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Sounds more like wishful thinking from a pro-Trump mouthpiece and less like reasoned analysis backed by science and data.


2 posted on 03/10/2020 6:43:26 AM PDT by nwrep
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And anyone who bought S&P futures at Monday’s close is going to be a very happy camper.


3 posted on 03/10/2020 6:44:15 AM PDT by montag813
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A tropical island?

Heck, that sounds like a great place to be right about now. I’m envious!


4 posted on 03/10/2020 6:44:21 AM PDT by chris37 (Impeach Chief Obama Injustice Roberts, a fraud, a clown and a tyrant!)
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7 posted on 03/10/2020 6:48:34 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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“Clearly, flu is vastly more contagious than the new coronavirus, as the WHO has noted...”


I want what this guy is drinking.

Flu is more contagious when everyone is locked up in their home.

Duh.


9 posted on 03/10/2020 6:49:12 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (,)
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Just got off the phone with business partner in Asia. He has friends who contracted and are now well on way to recovery.
Be of good cheer!


13 posted on 03/10/2020 6:51:29 AM PDT by all the best (You)
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Which Southern States (AKA, spring break destinations) have declared a health emergency?
Students returning to COVID-free northern states should be quarantined!


15 posted on 03/10/2020 6:54:26 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Scatology is serendipitous)
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Tucker Carlson and the FReeper Fear-monger Club hardest hit.
17 posted on 03/10/2020 6:55:10 AM PDT by LIConFem (I will no longer accept the things I cannot change. it's time to change the things I cannot accept.)
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Interesting, well thought out and presented article.

Amazing how understandable a subject becomes when basic facts are presented minus the hysteria.


22 posted on 03/10/2020 6:58:53 AM PDT by traderrob6
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It’s funny how the same political loons, the ones who voted for all the free traitors & open border freaks, are telling us that this is the flu? What gives with that?


28 posted on 03/10/2020 7:03:22 AM PDT by JonPreston
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It already is slowing... doubling rate went from 2 to 3 days worldwide already.... There will be hotspots obviously, always are... but overall the rate of infection is slowing....


29 posted on 03/10/2020 7:04:29 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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Oh geez, now what the hell are the pearl clutchers here on FR going to do? If this is true they will be soooo depressed the world is not ending.

Never mind all you doom and gloomers, there will be another crises coming along soon enough and you will all be back in business screeching to us about the falling sky and how we are all sure to die this time.


32 posted on 03/10/2020 7:06:32 AM PDT by billyboy15
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There you go with common sense and facts. Don’t you know now is the time to buy toilet paper and panic?


38 posted on 03/10/2020 7:09:22 AM PDT by Mom MD
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Why does the generic flu data from the CDC change daily? Usually going lower? Ah, to incite more panic.


41 posted on 03/10/2020 7:11:39 AM PDT by Jaded (Pope Francis? Not really a fan... miss the last guy who recognized how Islam spread... the sword.ag)
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That nursing home in Washington state isn’t exactly looking at a Gaussian distribution.

If you live in an area that has a higher than average elderly population, an international airport, and/or a port with cruise terminals ignore the naysayers and maintain an active posture. No need to be in the group represented by the area beneath the slope of the bell curve.


44 posted on 03/10/2020 7:13:43 AM PDT by ameribbean expat (Attention! All persons having the corona virus...please report to the nearest IRS office. Thank you.)
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Hope for the best, plan for the worst.


65 posted on 03/10/2020 7:27:48 AM PDT by Jim Noble (There is nothing racist in stating plainly what most people already know)
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China is the origin of the virus and still accounts for over 80 percent of cases and deaths. But its cases peaked and began ­declining more than a month ago, according to data presented by the Canadian epidemiologist who spearheaded the World Health Organization’s coronavirus mission to China. Fewer than 200 new cases are reported daily, down from a peak of 4,000. Subsequent countries will follow this same pattern, in what’s called Farr’s Law

Here's the thing: IF China's numbers are accurate it's only because they took extreme measures to contain the virus. They have basically shut down their entire country for the last 2 months (and counting). They allowed those with the virus to either live or die with basically no treatment. They instituted mass quarantines and disinfected public areas on a massive scale.

Using China as an example of the virus burning out isn't a good indicator.

73 posted on 03/10/2020 7:33:02 AM PDT by DouglasKC
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You are a lying fraud. Do not try to pretend you are anything but a Democrat Fascist Never Trumper propaganda bot.

You are totally devoid of any contact with data or Science. Don’t lying claim that you are thinking about this. You obviously are not.


74 posted on 03/10/2020 7:34:24 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (They would have abandon leftism to achieve sanity. Freeper Olog-hai)
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You are ignoring all fact and Science to cling to your drama queen hysteria. Just stop.


87 posted on 03/10/2020 7:45:52 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (They would have abandon leftism to achieve sanity. Freeper Olog-hai)
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I’m wondering why it hasn’t hit the aids community. If anyone has a compromised immune system, it’s these folks. Maybe the cocktail is doing some good?


110 posted on 03/10/2020 8:29:17 AM PDT by jimmygrace
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