Coronavirus Pandemic (many threads merged)

[10thmountain]

My Main supplier of 3M N95 Respirators is just about out. 2 Days, Gone. I am selling Safety ggggles and respirators back to China and Australia.

 

[Kaotiktribe]

Less than 10 cases in the US as of now, I have no concern about it. When it hits 1000 I may have an interest.

This.

With 330mil people here in the US 10 cases mean nothing to me. Ill stock up on whiskey, guns and knives just like i always do lol.

 

[10thmountain]

Seems like staying healthy, Vitamin C, Washing hands, Pro - biotics , good hygiene will help.

 

[BamaFan]

I stopped eating bat soup, at least temporarily.

 

[rbstern]

Wife just back from the store with bread and milk. Of course, it was grocery shopping day, so I'm not sure if it's a coincidence or good planning.

 

[Tactical Beaver]

It always increases my suspicion about how serious a situation is when the government finds it necessary to have a press conference to assure everyone that everything is okay.

They just did that.

I think I just watched it or another one. The doctor said that there's no person to person transmission of the virus in humans yet and that you're only at risk if you've visited China recently, but that we should all have our guard up and know what's going on.....huh

 

[lostchild]

Tried to preemptively pick up some anti-viral masks yesterday, everyone is sold out. So, there’s that. Main worry right now is getting on a plane for a long flight, and breathing that recirculated air for hours. Only time I’ve had the flu I caught it on a Dallas to Atlanta flight, and the wife’s planning us a trip to LA.

 

[WinstonSmith]

Here are the facts.....

R0 of 2.5 (means every 1 sick person will infect 2.5 new people on average. Do the math 2.5^2.5 and so on.)
Mortality of over 3%
2 week asymptomatic, contagious(assumed and most likely) incubation period.

It is in every Asian country, Phillipines, Japan, Austrailia, France, Russia, North Africa, Germany, and North America. The first case was December 1st. So, that how far it spread in less than 2 months. A mortality rate of 3% is higher than the Spanish flu that killed millions of people world wide. And we are fighting it with modern medical care.

China is actively clamping down on any reports aside from government sanctioned responses from effected areas. There are over 40 million people in 5 Chinese cities under quarantine. Good luck containing 40 million people. Meanwhile they started building a 1000 bed hospital at the epicenter of the outbreak to be completed in 10 days. 10 days. A whole hospital.

The US is routing all travelers from the effected areas through 5 US airports of which Atl is one. Today, there is a whole plane load of refugees from the effected epicenter landing at the Atlanta airport.

There are no effective antivirals or vaccines for this family of corona virus. It is a new family of corona virus which is why it is called a "novel" corona virus.

You can deny this has the potential to be a serious issue all you want but everything I have listed is a fact. Not supposition. Not rumor. And those are the best case facts if you want to take the Chinese government's, and other governments, word for it.

Now, that being said, I do not believe it will be as drastic here in the first world. I think it will hit africa and Asia hard. But, it would be good to be prepared to quarantine you and yours at your house for just a period of time. 2 months maybe? Just in case. Cant hurt. I don't think we will have to deal with lack of utilities or anything like that. Just some facts with my 2 cents added. If you don't want to be prepared for something mother nature has thrown at us repeatedly every couple hundred years for all of history that's fine. But it's a matter of when not if even if this one doesnt end up being as bad as it certainly has the potential to be. And we have over 7.5 trillion people on earth so if you want you and yours to be some of the fat that's trimmed more power to ya.

Coming back to update this with links for you folks.....
https://www.foxnews.com/health/us-health-officials-on-coronavirus-outbreak

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/27/technology/china-coronavirus-censorship-social-media.html

https://oftwominds.cloudhostedresources.com/?url=https://www.oftwominds.com/blogjan20/questions-coronavirus1-20.html&width=412

https://www.fastcompany.com/9045677...ets-you-track-the-outbreak-live-as-it-happens

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-transmission-idUSKBN1ZO0QW

https://news.yahoo.com/chinas-coron...ndemic-that-killed-50-m-people-151608803.html

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/world-51235105

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/28/world/asia/china-coronavirus.html

 

[WinstonSmith]

They dont even really know the source.....

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/202...-not-be-source-novel-virus-spreading-globally

 

[Tactical Beaver]

Between Pandemic on Netflix and WinstonSmith I'm officially biting my nails ..... scary ****. On that show they keep saying it's not a matter of if, but when the next big Pandemic hits.