Posted on 02/23/2020 10:53:39 AM PST by NRx
The world is fast approaching a “tipping point” in the spread of the coronavirus, according to experts, who warn that the disease is outpacing efforts to contain it, after major outbreaks forced Italy and Iran to introduce stringent internal travel restrictions and South Korea’s president placed the country on red alert.
Some of the countries most affected by the virus are scrambling to halt its progress two days after Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), said the international community needed to act quickly before the narrowing “window of opportunity” closed completely.
With almost 78,000 cases of Covid-19 now confirmed across the globe, experts say the situation will soon reach a critical threshold.
In 11 north Italian towns, 50,000 people have been in lockdown since Friday night, with police patrolling the streets and fines imposed on anyone caught entering or leaving outbreak areas. In Iran, the authorities have ordered the closure of schools, universities and other educational centres in 14 provinces as “a preventative measure”.
On Sunday, South Korea’s president, Moon Jae-in, placed the country on “red alert” after it reported its fifth death and more than 123 new coronavirus cases, taking the total number infected to 556.
...While the number of patients worldwide is increasing, some virus clusters have shown no obvious link to China, leaving experts struggling to determine where they started.
Paul Hunter, professor in medicine at the University of East Anglia and an authority on the new coronavirus infection, echoed Tedros’s warning and said the time for containing the disease was running out.
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So what happens when it hits the tipping point?
Major economic contraction caused by panic?
Or encouragement to not worry?
The hysteria surrounding this is more troubling than anything!
Oh that’s right...”Experts say...”
Stay terrified and well controlled, thy lord n savior the world government is here to save you.
is this only tipping in Guam?
It falls over.
I’m not worried, because I don’t eat bat soup.
No reported cases in Africa you can bet it is epidemic!
Panic is never a helpful response in a crisis. On the other hand this is probably a good time to start leaning forward in terms of preparation for the possibility of a serious disruption in day to day life. I would suggest stockpiling bottled water, non-perishable foods and those essential things we tend to not think of a great deal because they are readily available at stores, such as prescription meds soap and sanitary items, TP and the like. In a best case scenario all of this will prove unnecessary and we will have something to laugh at in later years. But if things get bad, we can expect a run on a lot of these items at stores... until the stores close.
Sounds like they have nothing to fight it with, and it’s mutation could get bad.
God help us when the virus gets into Mexico.
Checked the other side off the record? It’s good they’re speaking Chinese.
India is the other one. In my neighborhood, we have a lot of folks from India, and they return home at least once a year.
There. Feel better now???
“But Lenny, if I’m right... millions of voters...”
And the Cardinal smiles and nods his head.
Nothing like a epidemic to push a one world government need.
But what do the epidemiologists of FR have to say?
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.
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