Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

[Shropshire Slasher]

Sounds pretty bad.

 

[Regan MacNeil]

 

[Spartan Squad]

I just came here to say well done on the thread title.

 

[swingline]

Captain Tripps

 

[HanSenSE]

I just came here to say well done on the thread title.

Seconded.

 

[Cosmo]

I just got over a monthlong bout with bronchitis, and that was the no fever kind, just horrendous chest congestion and the inability to talk for a good two weeks straight. I want no part of this ****.

 

[Armchair_QB]

Captain Tripps

Beat me to it

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

Coronavirus is a dog disease and there’s a vaccine for it. Should we go see a vet?

 

[justgladtobehere]

Six people have died in a country with 1.38 billion people. SARS killed fewer than 1,000 people.

 

[Neutral Corner]

Six people have died in a country with 1.38 billion people. SARS killed fewer than 1,000 people.

Yeah, and the Spanish Flu, which was H1N1, infected something on the order of 500 million and killed an estimated 50 million around the time of WWI. Mutating influenza viruses had better be treated with respect, because if you don't act to limit their spread early on you can't do a damn thing about them later. At least this time around the Chinese government is *ordering* the various province officials to report accurately what is happening with this virus, instead of refusing to report or hiding the facts as they did last time.

Even at that, they're not doing enough. A huge number of Chinese travel at this time of year to be with family for Chinese New Year, and if there is a possible epidemic limiting travel is a no-brainer first step in trying to control it. This outbreak currently does not warrant a travel ban - but if it blows up into something truly ugly the choice to remain business as usual will kill a whole lot of people.

 

[tapintoamerica]

Isn't Coronavirus a condition that keeps people out of the Queens neighborhood of Corona Park? I'm sorry. That's called the New York Mets.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

Because China.

Food market at centre of deadly coronavirus outbreak admits selling live koalas, snakes, rats and wolves

<gag>

 

[Neutral Corner]

China has finally locked down the city where it started, far too late. Last I heard the virus had spread to six other countries. Pray it does not mutate into a more virulent form. It has already gone from spreading from animal to human to human to human transmission. I'm not an epidemiologist by any stretch but I am acutely aware of what could happen, and it scares the hell out of me.

Rare and unusual, against the odds? Sure it is - but people keep winning the Powerball against very long odds, you know?

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

Hello, Texas.

Brazos County’s health department is investigating a suspected case of the the mystery pneumonia-like virus that has claimed 18 lives in China and was confirmed in the U.S. for the first time earlier this week.

The department said in a tweet that the patient had traveled from Wuhan, China, the district where the so-called 2019 novel coronavirus originated.

The case would be the first for the state of Texas. Roughly 90 miles outside of Houston, Brazos County is home to the cities of Bryan and Collegge (sic) Station, where Texas A&M University is located.

Another departmental tweet said health-care providers in the area were aware of public health guidance about the virus and quickly recognized the patient met the criteria for testing. The patient is being kept isolated at home.​

Brazos County investigating suspected case of novel coronavirus

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

Texas was ground zero for the Ebola outbreak a few years ago too. Remember Nina Pham and her dog Bentley?

 

[Neutral Corner]

 

[I Should Coco]

China has finally locked down the city where it started, far too late. Last I heard the virus had spread to six other countries. Pray it does not mutate into a more virulent form. It has already gone from spreading from animal to human to human to human transmission. I'm not an epidemiologist by any stretch but I am acutely aware of what could happen, and it scares the hell out of me.

Rare and unusual, against the odds? Sure it is - but people keep winning the Powerball against very long odds, you know?

I agree with this ... in part because someone with the disease is being hospitalized in the Pacific Northwest (the Seattle area).

It's also because I have read "Station Eleven," which begins with a flu virus from Asia that spreads rapidly and takes out the majority of humanity. Fiction, I know ...

 

[HanSenSE]

Just announced: Top Rank card scheduled in Beijing Feb. 1 featuring junior middleweight champ Jose Ramirez vs. Victor Postol cancelled due to the virus.

 

[Neutral Corner]

I saw where a bunch of Chinese exchange students were turned away at the last minute as well. There's nothing happening here to panic over, and some folks are verging on it. Being aware and concerned is one thing, getting your bugout bag ready for your run to the survival bunker is another.

Coco, you should try John Ringo's "The Last Centurion". He's right wing as hell, but he's fun, and he's serious about the science and his descriptions of the reality if we got a no-**** pandemic are scary as hell.

 

[Della9250]