[semantic]

1000s of people were coming/go out of LAX, SJC & SFO 24/7 up until 1/31. My sister was a missionary in SE China (below Wuhan) and could fly r/t for $350 to visit our parents in Santa Clara. I'm not kidding when I say she visited them more from China than when she was in TX. (She was one of the first flights out and had to do 14 day quarantine.)

There is no logical way that CV wasn't in Calif literally 24 hrs after it showed up in Hubei back in the fall. That's why everyone was sick this winter with the non-flu; don't worry that it knocked people (such as myself) out.

Then we start seeing the slow reveal that the vast majority of CV fatalities are at risk elderly & co-morbids (hence the disproportionate AA numbers), while young and normal healthy are a-ok.

And then the grand finale, we discover fed funds are being directed to HC providers for reimbursements if CV is noted. Not the cause of death, but just the mere presence of CV alone.

[crusty old prospector]

I am still amazed that it didn’t spread across China.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Antibody testing is going to produce a LOOOOOOOOOOONG string of Emily Litella moments for Fauci, Birx & Co.

[fireman15]

1000s of people were coming/go out of LAX, SJC & SFO 24/7 up until 1/31. My sister was a missionary in SE China (below Wuhan) and could fly r/t for $350 to visit our parents in Santa Clara.

We have half a million recent Chinese immigrants in the eastern part of King County. SeaTac has some of the largest numbers of people arriving and departing from China. When the “travel ban” went into effect all people did was divert to Vancouver International and then drive or ride the bus back to our area with little or no health screening. Canada was more than happy to subvert the “travel ban”. Over ten thousand Chinese did this in February to reach our area. It is no wonder Washington had the first cases, the first deaths from coronavirus

11 people on the fire department I retired from recently tested positive for coronavirus. Only 1 of them had any symptoms and his symptoms were so mild that he kept coming to work. The question around here wasn't if you were going to get it, but if you already had it. UW researchers concluded from an epidemiological study of the first cases that we had community spread for weeks before the first case was discovered. They projected tens of thousands of deaths in this area alone. The entire state has now reached just over 400 mostly "presumptive cases" meaning anyone who died from pneumonia was presumed to have it. The death projections have been continually revised downward to now just over 600 by August. It is basically over here, yet Governor Dimsly will still not allow construction workers to return to work.