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Reply #40 on: February 25, 2020, 05:59:51 AM
It seems to be spreading.  The bad news is that people who have strong immune responses are more at threat than others. 

That is to say people like me.

If I get any cold and it goes into bronchitis it is usually because the cold has triggered a form of asthma called reactive airway syndrome.  My mucus membranes become highly irritated by common things like dust and cigarette smoke that normally don't bother me.  It affects me like asthma and I have trouble breathing.

The bronchitis/asthma can then proceed to pnemonia.  Dangerous indeed.


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Reply #41 on: February 26, 2020, 03:13:33 PM
Latest stats on the severity of the virus are:  85% who had the virus experienced mild symptoms; 10% experienced severe symptoms: 5% died of the virus.

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Reply #42 on: February 26, 2020, 03:45:17 PM
Quote from: watcher1 on February 26, 2020, 03:13:33 PM
Latest stats on the severity of the virus are:  85% who had the virus experienced mild symptoms; 10% experienced severe symptoms: 5% died of the virus.

8% death rate according to worldometer, which is tracking current and former cases.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/


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Reply #43 on: February 26, 2020, 04:57:05 PM
It’s not if now, it’s when.  Just waiting on the U.S. outbreak.

I felt like I was getting a cold yesterday, so did my preventative, bourbon, about 1/4 of a bottle.

Burnside Oregon bourbon, discovered it on my trip to Oregon in 2018.  I always try to drink and eat as local as I can, and there was a whiskey bar in our Portland hotel.

I feel good today, so no corona virus yet for me.


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Reply #44 on: February 26, 2020, 08:30:16 PM
It is really hard to tell what the real figures are.  I'd heard death rates were about 2%, but since China's reaction to the situation has caused widespread panic and resistance to reporting it's hard to know if figures are accurate.

Officials are going door to door and anyone found with a higher than normal temperature are then seized and carried off, never to be seen again.  Hospitals are full, and there are not enough staff to provide basic care for the sick, no doubt leading to additional deaths.

And should an apartment building be belived to be overwhelmed by the virus (lots of sick people found, thus exposure high in the building), the Chinese are welding the doors shut to the entire building to prevent them from breaking quarantine.  This is bad because most people do not have food in their homes for an extended stay.

Official Chinese gov't counts say about 30,000 are infected, but NGO's in the area beleive it could be as high as 250,000.



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Reply #45 on: February 26, 2020, 08:52:22 PM
China is still not releasing the true numbers. What do you expect from a country that jailed the person who warned them of the virus. And who just recently let World Health Organization people into the country.

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Reply #46 on: March 05, 2020, 10:16:14 PM


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Reply #47 on: March 05, 2020, 10:39:12 PM


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Reply #48 on: March 06, 2020, 06:25:08 AM
First cases local to me reported.


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Reply #49 on: March 08, 2020, 05:38:37 AM
Because mass produced snack cakes will definitely help you survive the apocalypse.  :roll:

Alongside those coronavirus prep bags being filled by shoppers with bleach and hand sanitizer may be boxes of long shelf life Twinkies and Ding Dongs.



https://finance.yahoo.com/news/coronavirus-outbreak-may-have-unleashed-panic-buying-of-hostess-twinkies-and-ding-dongs-210034011.html


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Reply #50 on: March 08, 2020, 05:49:13 AM
Canned soups.  Canned meats.  Canned vegetables.  If you are going to be stuck inside for a zombie apocalypse.

Now canned foods have unacceptable levels of Bisphenol A (BSA) which reportedly is linked to linked to birth defects, cancer, and infertility.  So choose your poison.

You only need two weeks worth of provisions, but what if supply lines are disrupted, and stores close over transmission fears?





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Reply #51 on: March 08, 2020, 06:02:52 AM
My grandma and grandpa, always rational people, said if this gets worse they expect us all to head out to their place in the middle of nowhere.  :roll:

In a few months people are going to forget this even existed and be stuck with boxes of masks and rotten Twinkies.  :emot_laughing:


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Reply #52 on: March 08, 2020, 06:39:44 AM


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Reply #53 on: March 08, 2020, 12:02:46 PM

China shut down its economy.  That should be enough to scare anybody.

And in the US (and elsewhere in the world), the number of cases is doubling every 6 days.  Conservatively it is 1 million cases by the end of April.  2 million by May 6.  4 million by May 12.

The healthcare system won't be able to keep up.   The US has somewhere in the neighborhood of 1 million beds that is filled on average at 60%.   That leaves 400,000 beds.  And since this is highly infectious, they will have to designate entire floors just for those infected.   

Personal protective equipment can't be made fast enough.  It will likely spread through the hospital staffs.   The people that are supposed to care for the sick.

It's not good.   I'm going to stock up on some twinkies.   Or better yet, maybe I'll go try and contract the virus so I am one of the few to get a hospital bed.


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Reply #54 on: March 08, 2020, 01:16:21 PM
Quote from: MintJulie on March 08, 2020, 12:02:46 PM

Or better yet, maybe I'll go try and contract the virus so I am one of the few to get a hospital bed.


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Reply #55 on: March 08, 2020, 04:18:20 PM
The panic buying of necessities isn't helping. It seems though, so far, young children have not been affected. Or dogs and cats.  Older people are being warned not to take cruises.

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Reply #56 on: March 08, 2020, 04:58:03 PM
I admit, if anyone at my kids school gets it, CJ's shutting that shit down and never sending them back.  :roll:


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Reply #57 on: March 08, 2020, 05:10:57 PM
I honestly don't care about this virus at all.  Boy cried wolf too many times I think. Swine flu, bird flu, mad cow disease, the flu itself... I kinda worried when all those hit the news, so now I'm all desensitized... so yeah I'll probably get it  :facepalm:


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Reply #58 on: March 08, 2020, 05:15:08 PM
Quote from: watcher1 on March 08, 2020, 04:18:20 PM
Older people are being warned not to take cruises.

Getting on a cruise Apr 1st- 7th.   
We have travel insurance.  I really am looking forward to the cruise and sunshine and bathing suits.

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Reply #59 on: March 08, 2020, 05:26:36 PM
Quote from: MintJulie on March 08, 2020, 05:15:08 PM
Quote from: watcher1 on March 08, 2020, 04:18:20 PM
Older people are being warned not to take cruises.

Getting on a cruise Apr 1st- 7th.   
We have travel insurance.  I really am looking forward to the cruise and sunshine and bathing suits.


Well perhaps when you become an "older person" you can worry.  Enjoy your cruise  :emot_kiss:


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