[Zhang Fei]

At this rate, the lockdown is gonna extend to the entire country.

[867V309]

if chinese international travel is banned, well, doo-da-doo-da.

[pepsionice]

It’ll be curious to see how grocery operations work, and if food shortages start up next week. You could see massive riots within ten days if the shutdowns continue.

[LukeL]

A crisis like this is a perfect pretext for Winnie the Pooh to enact extreme executive powers and completely lock-down the country. The other factor is declaring currency is spreading the illness and institute digital currency via their social ranking system.

[HK_Kai_Chung]

Came across this live coverage in another thread. I've been listening to it for a few hours. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ugxkt9bHwk

[jmcenanly]

Is this you going to be China’s Chernobyl? Their poor handling of this disaster reminds me of how the Soviets handled that nuclear disaster in 1986.

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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.

[HighSierra5]

Are bats kosher?

[Caipirabob]

Seriously, how many deaths from Corona virus as opposed to @#$% illegal mexican drunk drivers like the one that hit me?!?

Coronavirus : The death toll stands at 41.

...(NHTSA) estimates that alcohol‐​related deaths in 2017 were highest in Texas, California, and Florida – three states with large illegal immigrant populations as well as large populations in general.

[yldstrk]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-7922379/Chinas-lab-studying-SARS-Ebola-Wuhan-outbreaks-center.html

Biolabs in Wuhan. Something has escaped the labs, and is basically a weaponized virus.

[yldstrk]

Chinese, being Communist dictators, hide the truth, so if 42 is what is being admitted, think what the real number is.

[GotMojo]

Imagine being the brand manager for Corona beer......ooooy

[suthener]

Someone posted this link yesterday. Thought I would pass it along. Pretty interesting.

https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6

[GSWarrior]

Has anyone found a way to blame the outbreak on climate change yet?

[Grampa Dave]

"China has expanded its lockdown on more cities, restricting movement to an unprecedented 56 million people as it rushes to build a prefabricated, 1,000-bed hospital for victims, while the death toll from the outbreak continues to rise, casting a pall over Lunar New Year, the country's biggest and most festive holiday."

Fortunately for China and the rest of the world. This outbreak happened before their New Years.

If it happened after their New Years, it might engulfed the rest of the world.

[GOPJ]

Tourists from Hubei, especially from Wuhan city, are not allowed to leave the hotel where the medical observation will be held during the 14-day period, the announcement said. At least 450 military additional medical staff were deployed to Hubei to help with the treatment.

To help with 'treatment' or to stop people from escaping?

[gandalftb]

Here is a link to a daily report being done on the worlwide spread of the disease:
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https://bnonews.com/index.php/2020/01/the-latest-coronavirus-cases/
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There are the beginning rumors that this was a lab created disease. Not likely, as 6 of the first 7 patients were vendors at the Wuhan seafood market . They sell bats there for food.
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This virus shares 80% of the SARS virus, its closest relative. It has a 96% match with a known virus in fruit bats. Snakes are not the origin.
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This virus is much weaker than SARS but has some unusual traits. It is an RNA rather than a DNA virus like smallpox. That means that it mutates very quickly. Current patients are showing a 4th generation mutation from the original patients amonth ago.
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That makes vaccines very difficult to be effective.
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The new virus also has a very high binding energy to human tissue, about 4 times higher than SARS. That means that infection is far more likely when exposed. In fact, there are about 40% new patients every day, that is extraordinary.
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As usual, vulnerable people are more likely to die. Most people will be able to quickly fight off the virus.