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2020-01-25 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
First case of Corona Virus in Pakistan, 3 in France, 1 each in Australia and Vietnam
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Posted by 3dc 2020-01-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ]  Top

#1 Hope somebody works on vaccine because it's obviously not contained.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-01-25 03:04||   2020-01-25 03:04|| Front Page Top

#2 /\ Thankfully, your people appear to be on it. Please keep us updated:

The deadly animal virus epidemic spreading globally may have originated in a Wuhan laboratory linked to China’s covert biological weapons program, according to an Israeli biological warfare expert
Posted by Besoeker 2020-01-25 03:09||   2020-01-25 03:09|| Front Page Top

#3 Year of the (Lab) Rat(s)
and their two-legged CCP equivalents
Posted by Lex 2020-01-25 03:16||   2020-01-25 03:16|| Front Page Top

#4 #2 He's a fucking ex-spook not a virologist. And his statements is the usual "look at me, look at me!"
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-01-25 03:20||   2020-01-25 03:20|| Front Page Top

#5 Appears to be a little more serious than the average cold:

Guardian - Coronavirus outbreak: Wuhan hospital doctor dies from virus as toll hits 41 – updates
Posted by Besoeker 2020-01-25 03:42||   2020-01-25 03:42|| Front Page Top

#6 Belt and Road...and Quarantine and Death
Posted by Frank G 2020-01-25 05:20||   2020-01-25 05:20|| Front Page Top

#7 #2 in Steven King's series the Stand, it was a American bio lab that leaked the plague. Always blaming the Americans school of story telling.
Posted by Procopius2K 2020-01-25 07:13||   2020-01-25 07:13|| Front Page Top

#8 Cambridge biotech company working to develop coronavirus vaccine
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-01-25 14:26||   2020-01-25 14:26|| Front Page Top

#9 "Food for five years, a thousand gallons of gas, air filtration, water filtration, Geiger counter. Bomb shelter! Underground... God damn monsters."-Burt Gummer, Tremors
Posted by Skidmark 2020-01-25 16:29||   2020-01-25 16:29|| Front Page Top

#10 ^ on Netflix right now :-)
Posted by Frank G 2020-01-25 16:51||   2020-01-25 16:51|| Front Page Top

#11 Kung Flu
Posted by Deacon Blues 2020-01-25 17:08||   2020-01-25 17:08|| Front Page Top

#12 Don't trust the media. They still live by the motto "When in danger or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout."

R0 is the propensity to spread - and 2019-nCoV is like MERS novel coronavirus and SARS novel coronavirus, seatmates are roughly 2-3. Measles for example is 18. Flu is typically similar.

This is a lot of fear mongering. Per the CDC, Flu and complications from it (primarily pneumonia) in the 2017-2018 season killed about 80,000 Americans, which was one of the worst years in decades. Typical range is 12000 to 55000 deaths. That's the flu. Yet you dont see waves of panic in the media.

But being rational doesn't generate enough drama and panic to sell soap ads on network TV or generate clicks online.

Current Flu info: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/index.htm

"Wuhan" Coronavirus 2019-nCoV

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/faq.html

CDC current response:

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-nCoV/summary.html#cdc-response

Advice from my medical friends? Wash your damned hands, avoid crowded public places, avoid mass transit and air travel. And DO NOT go to the ER unless you have something life threatening.
Posted by Marilyn Tojo7566 2020-01-25 22:28||   2020-01-25 22:28|| Front Page Top

#13 Starting to wonder whether this is even big enough to be a proper Chinese fire drill. Seriously... if I ran the Pooh Zoo and wanted to put my peeps through their paces, civil defense-wise -- and I would -- I'd do it up a lot bigger than this. Probably stitch the Mohammedans up for it, too, and I haven't seen a word about that. Any interesting finger-pointing going on?
Posted by Ulomons Grundy7910 2020-01-25 23:06||   2020-01-25 23:06|| Front Page Top

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