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COVID-19 (coronavirus disease)/SARS-CoV-2 virus

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout' started by tinman, Jan 22, 2020.

  1. Invisible Fan

    Invisible Fan Contributing Member

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    Papa Smurf's a hillbilly?

    What's next...GI Joe's a messianic cult leader with lizardmen conspiracy theories and really loves the 2nd Amendment?
     
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    Looks like a number of the internationally infected are starting to recover. Australia has 10 out of 15 recovered. Cambodia, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Finland all had their single cases recover, the Philippines had all 3 of their cases resolved, 2 recovered and 1 death.

    USA only 3 recovered out of the current 15 infected so far.
     
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    It is getting really serious in China. They are even protecting their livestock. Ok I am joking. Serious though lol?

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  4. rimrocker

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    Still so much uncertainty out there. It's so bad there are even fake accounts that pretend to be fact checkers but intentionally validate bad info.

    I went ahead and signed up for this course that starts in March. Of course, I work in emergency response and am always thinking about worst case scenarios, like what if incident management teams who usually work wildfires were tasked with logistical support for a hard-hit community. Or if we have to work a fire near a hard-hit community. Here's the link:

    https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/covid19-novel-coronavirus

    Also continue to gradually work on the family prep side, including extra toilet paper and an extra propane tank for the grill. Just a few things here and there to get us to 6 weeks comfortably and a few hardship weeks after that if needed. Again, don't be an end-of-the-world prepper, but be prepared. Best outcome is you just intermittently use what you've stockpiled for a 6 week siege over the next few months. Worst outcome is you'll need what you've stocked in the timeframe you were planning for. Really bad worst case is not having anything in the pantry when it all hits the fan.

    It's kind of eye-opening to have to think about all the stuff in your life that just happens and a little disconcerting to think about some or most of those systems which we depend on suddenly becoming brittle or broken. I assume electricity and water would continue, but who knows? If you err with water, err on the more side.

    Anyway, stay vigilant, make thoughtful decisions, don't panic.
     
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  5. Buck Turgidson

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    I remember reading about this frikken weirdo!

    Makes me think of the people who find a tub of mercury and think it's cool to play with it.
     
  6. Buck Turgidson

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    Dude, that's straight Cobra Commander.
     
  7. Invisible Fan

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    You mean George Soros?

    /r/DonaldTrump
     
  8. Buck Turgidson

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    fuuuuuuuuuuck....

    Did Cobra have a fat guy calling the shots, man behind the man kind of thing? It's been a while.
     
  9. tinman

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    $125? it's like $12 at Walgreens.

    I've used the colloidal silver for a sinus infection and it works well.
     
  10. Buck Turgidson

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    @tinman=@Destro
     
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    Did coronavirus originate in Chinese government laboratory? Scientists believe killer disease may have begun in research facility 300 yards from Wuhan wet fish market

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...-originate-Chinese-government-laboratory.html
     
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    Resident evil
     
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    Sorry but a bunch of bullcrap. :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

    You think this is the first virus that naturally jumps from bats? LMAO
    only in the last 50 years there have been more than 7.

    One of them is so lethal that it was being stocked as a biological weapon by the Soviet Union.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marburg_virus

    Aint no need for "secret labs" and conspiracy theories for the world to naturally end by the godamn bats.
     
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    Now here this is very important.
    If the virus can incubate for 90 freaking days then all our quarantine measures are a joke.
     
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    Seems that you are attempting to mock the truth and protect the Chinese government.
     
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    "We don't have evidence that this disease originated there, but because of China's duplicity and dishonesty from the beginning we need to at least ask the question," he explained.
     
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    Approximately 400 U.S. citizens are aboard the Diamond Princess. According to Anthony Fauci, director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, 44 Americans on the cruise ship have been infected, though not all are sick.

    The U.S. State Department has organized a charter flight to evacuate Americans as early as Sunday evening. Only those who are not currently showing symptoms of infection with the virus will be allowed to return to the U.S., where they will face two weeks of quarantine at military bases in California and Texas.

    Americans who are sick will stay in Japan to be treated. Those who are not infected are not required to board the U.S. chartered flight, but the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo has recommended that U.S. citizens get off the ship as soon as possible and take the chartered flight home.

    https://www.npr.org/2020/02/16/8064...princess-cruise-ship-amid-spread-of-infection
     
  20. Amiga

    Amiga I get vaunted sacred revelations from social media
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    Well, Russian propaganda is pushing conspiracy theories that the US is spreading the virus. So there is that common thread of let’s look before evidence of any kind.



    While epidemiologists work to identify the exact source of the outbreak, officially known as 2019-nCov, pro-Kremlin actors are already blaming the United States for supposedly using bioweapons to disseminate the virus.
     

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