Coronavirus Pandemic (many threads merged)

[Jeddak]

 

[webicknell]

They feed that **** to their cats? No wonder why they're all friggin' sick.

If they want their cats to eat birds... just put the cats outside in the yard.... If they're Hungry enough, they will catch their dinner..

 

[MacTavish]

My daughter works with a disaster response team for Ga. She said I might have been a little premature
when I went out and bought two cases of duct tape, 12 cases of beer, and a 1000 yards of plastic.

Obviously she is wrong, you can never buy beer prematurely.

You should have bought more ammo too. One can never have to much lead.

 

[lostchild]

Corona is the family of flu virus. This is called a novel corona virus. That is what the N designation you will often see in reports on the virus means. This Novel Corona virus has spread from the animal population in China much like the swine flu. Novel means this is the first time we have seen this particular Corona virus. Viruses and bacterial are constantly mutating and changing. Our best hope is that this virus mutates into a less harmful form to the human population. It's just as likely that it becomes more virulent however. It's way too early to corroborate the new numbers coming out regarding r0 and mortality which is why I'm still sticking with r0 of 2.5 and 3% mortality which even as best case is scary enough. This will come in waves like other similar viruses before this one. Best comparison for this particular virus is still the spanish flu of 1918 imo. To see how this might play out I would research that. I am afraid we won't know the real numbers until this virus has run its course. This virus is an RNA virus. The middle segment is eerily similar to HIV which is why they are treating the virus with a combination of HIV medications and flu medications they say have proven effective. Unfortunately our stockpiles of such medications are limited and they are not the easiest to mass produce.

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[jeep78]

I noticed FEMA, DHS, and others have just recently updated their shelter in place recommendations for supplies.

Do they know something or are they being pro-active and doing a good job? (Gov't doing a good job? Ha!)

I checked the edit dates on their sites. Most in the last week or so.

 

[HERMET]

My daughter works with a disaster response team for Ga. She said I might have been a little premature
when I went out and bought two cases of duct tape, 12 cases of beer, and a 1000 yards of plastic.

Obviously she is wrong, you can never buy beer prematurely.

You're gonna need more duct tape...

 

[Jeddak]

What's the update?

I noticed FEMA, DHS, and others have just recently updated their shelter in place recommendations for supplies.

Do they know something or are they being pro-active and doing a good job? (Gov't doing a good job? Ha!)

I checked the edit dates on their sites. Most in the last week or so.

 

[jeep78]

What's the update?

Was mainly looking for recent activity. Beginning of thunderstorm season, hurricane season, blizzard season, are normal edit times for those pages. Early Feb is not.

Just another data point.

 

[Jeddak]

Still recommend 2 weeks of water and food?

 

[Don231s]

Still recommend 2 weeks of water and food?

I keep more than that on hand even when there's not a pandemic circling the planet. I'd say my stores would last me 2 months for me alone. A month if I sheltered someone like my mom or GF.