[BenLurkin]

ping

[CondorFlight]

Nobody knows.

It’s not a mistake to do some kind of preparation, just in case. If nothing happens, then you’re only out a few bucks for supplies.

[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.

So far the false positive rate is 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 life, it's worth it.

[abigkahuna]

If I remember correctly, they went back and discovered that SARS had a diarrhea element to it that shed the virus. It was discovered that most of the cases came from an apartment building in which had typical Chinese toilet system and thus the virus was everywhere. Fecal Spray... yummy, eh?

[redgolum]

She may be wrong, may be right, but she is a movie reviewer.

[BusterDog]

Yeah we are. Maybe more so if you live in China than in Florida, but maybe Florida, too.

[11th_VA]

Let me interject a snake analogy. The most deadly snake in the world (kills the most humans) kills less than 10 % of the people it bites - but because it’s so aggressive, it kills the most humans.

Likewise, the most lethal snake in the world (most toxic bite) kills much fewer humans because it’s less aggressive.

Time will tell what kind of ‘snake’ we are dealing with.

[Vermont Lt]

If you read the story, they don’t even discuss what the R0 is.

Based on a study from Wuhan last week it was calculated at 4.08

The flu is marginally over 1.2.

And the CFR is about 2% with Coronavirus. It’s something like .92% for the flu.

AndThis is the bio of the writer:

Ciara Wardlow
Human being who writes about movies and other things. Sometimes I try to be funny on Twitter

[E. Pluribus Unum]

It’s a flu.

80,000 Americans died of the flu last year.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2019/01/11/flu-has-sickened-about-million-us-so-far-half-needed-medical-care/

It’s just another flu.

[DownInFlames]

Reported this virus has an HIV protein. If so, released from a lab.

[silverleaf]

She obviously knows a lot more than that dumb Chinese govt with its draconian ongoing containment efforts

[DivineMomentsOfTruth]

I guess Everybody should Wang Chung Tonight.. for Tomorrow May Never Come.

[Georgia Girl 2]

30,000-40,000 die every year from the regular flu and it does not even make the paper. Wake me up when a few thousand die in the US of corona virus.