Coronavirus (No politics)

#253
#253
Zues1 said:
Why do these plagues always seem to develop in China? And how the hell can they trace it back so quickly to dead animal sold in an open market. Very peculiar
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I think its interesting how its suddenly became an epidemic this close to an election.
 
#256
#256
K-town Vol Fan said:
New cases in Florida and New York.

It's almost here
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It has probably been quietly circulating around the US and the rest of the world for two months, brought back by travelers before anyone knew what was happening. Turns out that there are many, many people who become infected (and contagious) but have no symptoms. Others have mild symptoms, or a little worse but don’t go to the doc, or it’s mistaken for flu. How many people have you known who had a really bad flu this winter? Maybe it wasn’t flu, or maybe it was flu and more.

A lot of the stock market drop is due to the disruptions of supply lines from Chinese factories, shut down as China attempted to control the spread of the virus. (Maybe American businesses will consider bringing some of this work back home and employ us, instead of enriching other countries...)

I’m not minimizing this, but consider how the general public treats flu as no big deal, even refusing to get flu shots, when 29 million people in the US have gotten sick with flu (not just infected), and at least 14,000 have died, including 125 children. That’s just this year, and it is a low-mortality season.

Corona virus is new and somewhat unknown, and humans tend to fear the new and unknown.
 
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#257
#257
I was at Wally World yesterday for my daughter's girl scout cookie thing. I saw multiple people walking around in face masks. There hasn't been a reported case in the Tri that I'm aware of. But people are nervous anyway.
 
#262
#262
JCHateSteve said:
Apprently thin mints a great motivator. We we're really busy. Had to have the troop leader bring more cookies twice. Everybody wanted the new lemon ones too.
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Stop eating the customers cookies then...
Was at my sons house working on his deck on Sat and the dogs started going crazy so I walked around the front of the house and little girl was walking down the driveway towards moms van. I asked if I could help her and she said the lady (my daughter in law) said she didn't need any cookies. I gave her $30 and went back with 5 boxes of cookies and informed my son and daughter in law that nobody needs girls scout cookies but the GS needed to do annual research to make sure the quality is still in there and I'm on the product testing team! I think 3 of those boxes died on Saturday.
 
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#264
bag12day said:
Stop eating the customers cookies then...
Was at my sons house working on his deck on Sat and the dogs started going crazy so I walked around the front of the house and little girl was walking down the driveway towards moms van. I asked if I could help her and she said the lady (my daughter in law) said she didn't need any cookies. I gave her $30 and went back with 5 boxes of cookies and informed my son and daughter in law that nobody needs girls scout cookies but the GS needed to do annual research to make sure the quality is still in there and I'm on the product testing team! I think 3 of those boxes died on Saturday.
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#265
#265
I watched the announcement that 4 more died from corona yesterday and I was thinking, I am more interested in where 44,000 people died from this years flu virus. Does anyone know over what period of time those people died? Why don't they do one of those red dotted maps on this issue?
 
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#266
IPleadInsanity said:
I watched the announcement that 4 more died from corona yesterday and I was thinking, I am more interested in where 44,000 people died from this years flu virus. Does anyone know over what period of time those people died? Why don't they do one of those red dotted maps on this issue?
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Because it’s just the flu.
 
#267
#267
JCHateSteve said:
I was at Wally World yesterday for my daughter's girl scout cookie thing. I saw multiple people walking around in face masks. There hasn't been a reported case in the Tri that I'm aware of. But people are nervous anyway.
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There won't be a reported case in the Tri until it's already too late. They aren't even testing people with respiratory symptoms unless they've been exposed directly to someone who has tested positive. That's direct information from the medical director of a local hospital.
 
#268
#268
Coug said:
There won't be a reported case in the Tri until it's already too late. They aren't even testing people with respiratory symptoms unless they've been exposed directly to someone who has tested positive. That's direct information from the medical director of a local hospital.
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How many days ago did s/he say that? Because that’s what CDC was insisting on (along with severely ill in hospital with no explainable cause) until they changed it a few days ago.
 
#269
#269
Coug said:
There won't be a reported case in the Tri until it's already too late. They aren't even testing people with respiratory symptoms unless they've been exposed directly to someone who has tested positive. That's direct information from the medical director of a local hospital.
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From what I'm seeing folks in Seattle can't get tested until they are sick enough to be hospitalized and thier are confirmed cases there. Not good.
 
#271
#271
Talked to a relative in Sacramento yesterday who was checking on us following the storm in Nashville Monday night. She said she and her husband have been avoiding crowds, gave up some event tickets for things they were looking forward to. They are early-60s in age, both retired so probably getting a lot of exposure to television news. She was telling me this is going to take out 1-2% of the worldwide population. I have a hard time believing that, but I know she is sincere in what she was saying and it probably comes from a combination of her news sources of choice (my guess would be MSNBC given her politics) and communicating with her friends.
 
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