[11th_VA]

Wonder how the markets are going to do Monday ...

[11th_VA]

1 month ago : Mysterious Respiratory Virus Strikes 44 People in China

[familyop]

British couple evacuated from cruise ship are ‘in a really bad way’
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/british-couple-sally-and-david-abel-in-really-bad-way-with-pneumonia-npkmdzxx9

[familyop]

Coronavirus British couple are ‘in a bad way’, says son of couple who caught deadly virus on Diamond Princess - as their son asks Donald Trump to help them escape from Japanese ‘prison’ hospital
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8032057/British-couple-diagnosed-pneumonia-contracting-Covid-19-ship.html

[familyop]

Italy has quarantined a dozen cities over coronavirus
https://www.insider.com/italy-quarantines-cities-over-coronavirus-2020-2

[familyop]

Coronavirus cases climb to over 100 in Italy
https://www.politico.eu/article/coronavirus-cases-climb-to-over-100-in-italy/

[duckman]

Is anyone with authority ready to call the virus pandemic?

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Imma gonna post it again:

Reactions of governments hiding the truth about the seriousness of this disease have given me all the information I needed. This virus is really bad and China specifically has not come out and directly said so. The illness is far worse in the way it shows symptoms (or doesn't) and infects people.

It is far worse when one is sick with it than they are telling people. And, the mortality rate is worse and HEALTHY people who should be able to weather it are DYING. The coverup is so the very rich can move their assets to safety as much as possible before panic sets in and all hell breaks loose. The record lows on Treasury bond yields (very few understand what that means) and the sharp uptick in the price of gold tell me all I need to know about that. Batten down the hatches. It's going to be a rough ride.

[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.

[sauropod]

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[Pearls Before Swine]

The outbreak in Iran has centered on the holy city of Qom, where officials say travellers from China brought the new coronavirus.

It seems to me that the main reason to visit "the holy city of Qom" is pilgrimmage. The part of China with lots of Muslims is Xinjiang. And, kts also the westermonst province, the closest to Iran, with just a few "'Stans" in between. I wonder if that's the connection, rather than random tourism, or business, or government/military visits.

[piasa]

Meanwhile, the death toll from the common flu continues without media coverage.

[SeekAndFind]

All I can say is, so much for the conspiracy theory that this virus was bioengineered to be deadly only to ethnic Han Chinese.