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In a meeting with my doctor on Friday she told me that I had severe bone loss in my left arm because of a problem with my parathyroid. She recommended surgery on my parathyroid, telling me that it was a step by step process. I must give her an answer soon. Does anybody have any experience in this issue? Any advice to tender? Thanks for your help. Freepers are the greatest!

I am not a doctor or an epidemiologist. I am a regular guy who sees the world and tries to understand it from a very common sense point of view. Tragedy has struck China, the virus has spread around the world. The Coronavirus is a problem and it must be dealt with. I am not a denier: what I will say is stay calm and don’t panic.

Will a pandemic hit the USA? Hopefully not, but the odds are the highest in our lifetime. Prepare now in case it happens. If it happens, there will likely be empty grocery store shelves, long lines at gas stations and hospitals. 1). Food Stockpiling food is essential. Suggestions: Rice, oat meal, canned/dry beans, ramen noodles, canned tuna, sardines, summer sausage, potatoes. Fill up the pantry. Much of this food is CHEAP. $200 will buy so much rice, oat meal and beans. In the freezer, pack it solid with meats. Also, stock up on disinfectants (alcohol, bleach, Lysol), TP, hand soap....

If no news is good news we've got GREAT news. China didn't report ANY fatalities due to WuFlu yesterday!!! WOOHOO!!!

Fatality Rates The SARS "epidemic" lasted from 1 November 2002 – 31 July 2003 (9 months). During that time there were... 8,096 total cases worldwide (5,327 in China) 774 total fatalities (349 in China) ...which gave us a fatality rate of 9.6% (6.6% in China). Take a good look at those numbers. When you exclude China, the global fatality rate for SARS was 15.3%. This includes a 17.1% fatality rate in the socialized-medicine utopia otherwise known as Canada. Other notable rates - Hong Kong @ 17.0% and Singapore @ 13.9%. Both of the latter countries are well known for excellent...

A reliable source told Miles Guo today that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) will admit to the public of an “accidental” leak of lab-created virus from a P4 lab in Wuhan to put blames on “human errors”. But the official announcement is still being finalized. Initially, the Chinese communist’s propaganda machines were blaming the virus on wild animals like bats by showing many videos of people eating bats.