[Mariner]

The odyssey continues...

[Mariner]

New daily thread ping...

[amorphous]

Thanks for the new thread!

Corona news and updates from around the world with Dr. Campbell comments.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urPjrPBKZy4

[HangnJudge]

Last man standing has fallen, West (by gawd) Virginia
has index case in eastern panhandle.
Sic Gloria Transit Mundi

[RummyChick]

Had a health care professional tell me that ace inhibitors dont make you more vulnerable to Wuhan.

Not sure I buy that.

Certainly, the jury is still out on it.

[cgbg]

Thanks.

Some links for folks just tuning in:

—The “plan”
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/sph/ide/gida-fellowships/Imperial-College-COVID19-NPI-modelling-16-03-2020.pdf

—Explanation of the “plan”—start at ten minute mark

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmhsNdW24BM

—The states
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18oVRrHj3c183mHmq3m89_163yuYltLNlOmPerQ18E8w/htmlview?usp=sharing&sle=true#

Use the tabs to navigate—the “states” tabs has links to the state’s websites for latest updates

—The world
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

[abigkahuna]

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[janetjanet998]

Breaking911
@Breaking911
Baltimore Mayor Begs Residents To Stop Shooting Each Other So Hospital Beds Can Be Use For Coronavirus Patients - WJZ

[cowboyusa]

Chi com virus.

[Nicojones]

Here is a hopeful study released recently that says summer weather (heat and humidity) caused drastic disparity in transmission in China. With summer on the way, the virus should retreat if this is right . Hopefully we will see this validated in Florida and our other warmer states soon - https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3551767

[freepersup]

In before the fifth column enters the city.

[JonPreston]

Did anyone see the low IQ reporterette asked DJT about an unfounded report of the use of the term “Kong Flu” to describe the Wuhan virus? She wound up repeating the dreaded term, with DJT also using it to answer her question. It was a masterful troll job by our Supreme Leader :)

[MplsSteve]

Per KSTP-TV in Minneapolis-St Paul, the number of confirmed tests for CV have risen from 60 to 77. So far, 2762 people have been tested so far in Minnesota.

https://www.kstp.com/coronavirus/minnesota-department-health-17-new-cases-test-positive-wednesday-march-18-2020-covid-19-coronavirus/5677469/?cat=1

The article makes no mention of any demographic factors (age, ethnicity, etc)or how the disease was contracted (ex: foreign travel vs. community spread)

A map of Minnesota issued by the Department of Health shows the majority of cases are in the Twin Cities metro area but that a few cases have started spreading into rural Minnesota.

https://www.health.state.mn.us/diseases/coronavirus/situation.html

[CharleysPride]

#20 in the series Open as:

trading resumes after the first mid-day halt in trading during the CoronaVirus Epidemic

[DEPcom]

Notice a lot of counties across the country declaring state of emergency with Fire Arms sells being prohibited. This have folks in my area upset. There is a run on guns now.

[Pollard]

Missouri Cases

Boone 1
Cass 1
Cole 1
Greene 4
Henry 1
Jackson 1
St. Louis City 1
St. Louis County 4

zero deaths

[null and void]

Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

The false positive rate was 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

If a quarantine saves just one child's or one old fart’s life, it's worth it.

[HangnJudge]

https://www.tn.gov/health/cedep/ncov.html

County Case Count

Campbell 1
Davidson 42
Hamilton 1
Jefferson 1
Knox 2
Rutherford 1
Sevier 1
Shelby 2
Sullivan 1
Williamson 21

Most in counties around Nashville

[SaxxonWoods]

Today may be interesting.

Daily new cases, USA:

3/15: 737
3/16: 983
3/17: 1,748
3/18: 1,276 with a lot of the day left.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Some musings from Northern California...

“Locked Down” here in Santa Clara County, CA (one of six contiguous counties to do so). It is eerily quiet out there and so very strange.

Went hiking yesterday in the hills of the Arastradero Preserve in Palo Alto. Parking lot was full about 2:00 pm which was extremely rare on a weekday. It’s a small lot, holds maybe 40 cars and is normally almost empty on a weekday. There was excellent “social distancing” on the trails — but there always is.

Stopped at Safeway on the way home and the shelves were a bit more full compared to the previous day. The meat coolers were now fully stocked. The normal shortages of paper goods, beans, rice, bread, soaps, and hand sanitizer have not abated. There was an semi truck trailer parked at the loading dock which was good to see. I read the other day Safeway and others are desperately looking for people to hire to distribute products. My son told me this morning that they are hiring on the spot, almost no questions asked.

My wife arrived at our Idaho house this morning and said it’s nice to be in an area where things are (so far) operating normally. That will probably change quickly in the next two or three weeks. She’s going to work remotely from there for the next weeks or months.

We watched the 2011 movie “Contagion” last night. It was fun, but got scary when food ran out around week 16. The movie was implausible in that there was zero national or Presidential leadership, the epidemic ended around Day 135, and they got a vaccine into production within five months. I found it plausible that they used a lottery system to determine when people could get inoculated with the limited-supply vaccine.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

A Doctor’s Answers to All Your Questions About COVID-19 (No, not "just the flu", 3/18/20)

PING!