Posted on 02/25/2020 1:46:29 PM PST by cba123
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Tuesday alerted Americans to begin preparing for the spread of coronavirus in the United States, after the flu-like virus surfaced in several more countries.
The announcement signals a change in tone for the U.S. health agency, which had largely been focused on efforts to stop the virus from entering the country and quarantining individuals traveling from China.
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Sell all your food and buy stocks.
First off, this is the CDC putting this out. Not CNN.
Second, Coronavirus is spreading much faster than the flu. And even if it only kills 4% of those it infects, that will be in the tens of millions and rival the 1921 Spanish Flu.
Third, there is going to be economic disruption. The supply chains will be disrupted and the tourist industry will be hurt. No one is going to travel with this thing spreading around the world.
Yes. This is a problem. And yes it will hurt Trump if he doesn’t have a handle on it.
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12,000÷9,000,000=0.001333333 or 0.133333% mortality rate
coronavirus
2,708÷80,407=0.03367866 or 3.367866% mortality rate
individual countries - just the modern and more trustworthy ones
No worries
lol...Good grief! We’re awl gonna die!
Avian flu
Swine flu
SARS
HIV
Zeka
West Nile Virus
Get a grip...this is more “IN A STATE OF FEAR”.
“Try local paint stores for masks.”
Silicon Valley is picked clean.
Try eBay, still some stock but the prices are rising.
Homeless camps will spread it at an alarming speed, big cities will be enablers.
Silly goose. That would require American workers and American wages. Got to max out the bottom line you know. (sarcasm?)
Let's run some estimates on how many people might die in the US over the course of this pandemic.
Assumptions:
1. The epidemic in China seems to be peaking now or soon, according to WHO today. To account for a delay in the peak (and a delay in infected people dying over the next few weeks), I'll multiply the present infections and deaths by a factor of 3, so (Infections:Deaths) = (3*80,000 : 3*3000) = (240,000 : 9000).
2. The Chinese have underestimated/lied about infections and fatalities by a factor of 20, so these numbers become (4.8M : 180k).
3. The US will have proportional infections and fatalities as China. In other words, we have about 1/4 of the population of China, so our numbers would be around (1.2M : 45k), so we'd have around 45,000 deaths after making some estimates about how much the Chinese have lied about the scope of the virus, using the present death rate, and some wild-ass guesses.
This would rank the pandemic as a bad flu season here, which is bad, because these deaths are on top of what we already have due to influenza. The problem isn't the number of deaths--it's the disruption because this disease has such a high fatality rate compared to the flu (3-4% compared to about 0.1%). This will cause severe changes in behavior, like staying home all the time, school closures, travel restrictions, etc., to avoid this disease.
The real utility in wearing a mask is the protection of the nose & mouth from fingers.
The greatest source of pathogens are your own hands touching your face.
Hey bras are about the right shape. You could make two masks out of one bra. They come in different sizes and colors too.
Every shop I worked at that supplied spray painting masks would buy the large size and they didn’t fit me at all. Big gaps so I bought my own. Same thing with gloves. I wear medium but the shops and hell, have the stores only have large. Dangerous to have loose fitting safety gear. I used safety harnesses when going up in the air and yup, all made for fat guys.
I am not in medical field, but relatives are and one is pretty high up in CDC. They have definitely changed their position on this and are saying the likely hood of it getting pass the man made barriers and becoming an epidemic here in the USA are getting much higher by the day.
They are actively, along with the other agencies preparing for that now - urgently. It will take a ‘level 3’ type of mask - - not just typical mask to stop the fluid / passage of this bio like contagion I was told...I don’t know what I am talking about - obviously!
some samples of medical n95 masks from amazon:
3M 1870 Surgical Mask N95-Each by 3M
$19.90
5 PCS 3M 1860 Medical Mask N95, Expire in 2024
$104.99
Do no buy washable ones, as I read the effectiveness falls off dramatically;
Also buyers need to take training in how to properly adjust and wear masks or don’t buy at all;
You get what you pay for.
So don’t do anything, just stay off the virus threads.
Someone posted a letter from a doctor to his patients on FB. He said that the virus alone will filter through just about any mask, but they need a particle or droplet to carry them. The N95, N100, or P95, P100 masks will filter out the smaller particles or droplets. I ordered some N95 masks through Amazon last week. They came today, a box of 25. Probably not nearly enough if this goes on for a while.
medical masks are even more particular - the particles of virus have the potential to kill you, so proper fitting and adjustment is essential - find someone to train you. its not as simple as many think.
They were whistling past the graveyard and a bug flew into their mouths.
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I already have my Zicam so I’m set to go......bring it on!
Sincerely doubt the US will experience the type of outbreak that is plaguing China, Korea, Italy and Iran.
It does not appear that Caucasians and Africans have the same susceptibility to COVID-19 infection as do Asiatics or if they do become infected usually do not become critically ill. A given populations susceptibility to a pathogen depends on the genetic susceptibility. No doubt given the unrestricted travel between Wusan and multiple points in the US and Canada,the virus is here but there have been no documented big outbreaks in the endemic population. Not to say that places with high concentrations of Asians such as Vancouver, Toronto, LA, San Francisco, and New York may indeed see such outbreaks especially within Asian communities. But what about Italy? Consider the fact that the area whee the outbreak occurred in Italy has a high concentration of Chinese immigrants and guest workers in the garment industry. Are native Caucasian Italians getting infected and dying or is it the Asians who have migrated and live in Italy? It is not politically correct to identify the race of victims and such disclosures would be contrary to the prevailing WHO narrative. What about the Iranians? The modern Iranians probably share many genes with Chinese and this case the gne that makes an individual susceptible to COVID-19. Remember the Silk Road transverses what is now Iran. When those Chinese merchants and their entourages came out of the deserts and mountains, they no doubt had complexes to rest and refurbish before they continued their journey. Doubt they were monks and no doubt left a big genetic imprint which diluted over time but has remained in the Iranian genome.
Could be absolutely wrong. More information and data is necessary. But it is reassuring that there have been no big outbreaks to date in the US. However if correct may soon see outbreaks in North American Asian communities.
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