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Hey, it could be worse.

new daily thread ping

Hey, it could be worse.

Could be raining.

This attempt to impeach President Trump with the coronavirus is getting old.

Thanks, M

Travellers from US quarantined in American Samoa
RNZ
30 March, 2020, 10:35 am

Forty-two of the 145 passengers who arrived on the Hawaiian Airlines flight from Honolulu Thursday night have been quarantined.

This is the biggest group of travellers that have been taken in for quarantine since the Covid-19 outbreak World-wide.

Director of Health Motusa Tuileama Nua said none of the travellers displayed signs of illness but all were from US states with large numbers of Covid-19 cases such as California and Washington.

The group is being quarantined at the Veterans Affairs (VA) Center for which renovations were just completed two hours before the Hawaiian Airlines plane touched down at Pago Pago International Airport.

https://www.fijitimes.com/travellers-from-us-quarantined-in-american-samoa/

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.

Thanks.

It is only a couple of days but new cases in Italy, Spain, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland have dropped . France reports later. This on Worldometer.

Thanks for the new thread.

Moths are already flying into the light. Doesn’t take long. They must wait for your every move :-)

Virus in brief: Will you be home until April 30? And more about what to expect as we try to stop spread (3/30/20)

International students experience challenges while dealing with COVID-19 concerns (Iowa, 3/29/20)

Coronavirus brief: What happened in COVID-19 news this weekend in Sioux City, beyond (3/30/20)

Austin doctors asking for more transparency, sequestering of coronavirus patients (Texas, 3/30/20)

State lawyers urge judge to keep coronavirus-related abortion ban in place (Texas, 3/30/20)

Big 12 tells schools no “in person” organized team activities through end of May (3/29/20)

This guy is a Flu Bro hero—a martyr to their cause... ;-)

Sheriff Chad Chronister of Hillsborough County, Fla., says he has obtained an arrest warrant for Pastor Rodney Howard-Browne of The River at Tampa Bay Church for holding large services and “intentionally and repeatedly” disregarding orders to avoid large gatherings.

https://twitter.com/PatriciaMazzei/status/1244684815682670596

What will this look like in 30 days?

Help is on the way! This is the line of people waiting to pick up 50 pounds of food from @PghFoodBank in Duquesne. They hope to hand out nearly 1700 boxes. #wpxi pic.twitter.com/hGJobVvd1w— Joe Arena (@WPXIJoe) March 30, 2020

Our part time neighbor just called to say they’re coming here (their vacation house) to escape CV in their area. They’ve invited their kid and lover from San Antonio and some friends from Houston and all their pets and who knows who all else. Excuse me? Good grief. We don’t want you here. We don’t want all the bleepin’ tourists coming in bringing CV with them. The neighbors and all their family and friends may have it.

Oh, and they want to get their construction people back on the job they haven’t finished and want to get building materials delivered. More potential CV.

Stay the hell away from us.

Thanks for the thread.

New cases is showing a trend of decreasing daily growth for 3 consecutive days for the USA. We have seen numbers jump around before, but this is a hopeful trend. As long as we don’t have too many idiots like the megachurch preacher in Florida, we can avoid another NY sized outbreak. Unfortunately, there are a few states showing a lot of growth. Michigan, with 1/4th the population, has surpassed CA in cases and deaths.

There was a big drop in reported deaths yesterday. I’d like to think that is more than just a good day, but we will see.