Fear and Loathing, a Rat Flu Odyssey

[sb]

Chinese are taking a page from Trump and building many walls.

[summit]

Chinese reported 2019-nCoV cases continue to skyrocket with a consistent CFR of >2%. China has instituted draconian public health measures including a cordon sanitare affecting over 65 million people, bans on work and public gatherings. Several countries have blocked most regular travel from China. Incubation is 2-14 days averaging 10, so I’d hope to see a blunting of the exponential growth curve by early February if these public health measures are effective.



The virus has spread to every continent except South America. USA has no travel restrictions, but is screening some incoming air passengers. Suspected cases are being isolated and tested with contact monitored in confirmed cases. There are 5 confirmed cases in the USA and over 100 under investigation. There has not yet been a documented secondary transmission in the USA.

Time will tell if public health measures are successful. If so, global deaths will be limited to the 100s. If not, the consequences are difficult to predict with a worst case scenario being a global pandemic with as many fatalities as the influenza pandemic of 1918.

Chinese are taking a page from Trump and building many walls.

Historically speaking, China has a knack for wall building.

[SkiCougar]

You first.

second. he's such a sweetie for posts like that.

luckily, despite the Chinese being around for 5,000 years; it's been mostly white men making medical breakthroughs and eliminating disease and is the same in the case as all news seems to be saying china is behind and the CDC is the one leading the way on this virus.

[Thaleia]

Maybe not 90,000 (how would a nurse know the number of cases?) but the Chinese wouldn't be building a 1000 bed hospital in 10 days if there weren't more cases than they're admitting. (Hope there aren't any earthquakes in the area once they fill that hospital.)

I do not trust China's official numbers at all but I'm sick of all the BS being shared. The Chinese media debunked this one days ago.

[summit]

As soon as secondary transmissions occur outside of China, it becomes drastically more difficult to contain the outbreak and to screen patients based on travel history.

This morning Germany confirmed a secondary transmission of 2019-nCoV. This development is very concerning.

WHO should declare an emergency. International travel should be curtailed. Anyone coming from China should be quarantined for 2 weeks.

[old goat]

I do not trust China's official numbers at all but I'm sick of all the BS being shared. The Chinese media debunked this one days ago.

what exactly has been debunked?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...tion_accidents
"With medical facilities in short supply, the local government has also pledged to build a new 1,000-bed hospital in 10 days, and vowed that another new 1,300-bed hospital would be ready by the middle of next month. It is taking a page out of the government’s playbook during SARS, when it built a new hospital in Beijing in just a week."
Whether they actually accomplish it is another story.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-51245156

[Thaleia]

what exactly has been debunked?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...tion_accidents
"With medical facilities in short supply, the local government has also pledged to build a new 1,000-bed hospital in 10 days, and vowed that another new 1,300-bed hospital would be ready by the middle of next month. It is taking a page out of the government’s playbook during SARS, when it built a new hospital in Beijing in just a week."
Whether they actually accomplish it is another story.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-51245156

I was referring to the nurses claim of 90,000 people infected. That was debunked.

[old goat]

second. he's such a sweetie for posts like that.

luckily, despite the Chinese being around for 5,000 years; it's been mostly white men making medical breakthroughs and eliminating disease and is the same in the case as all news seems to be saying china is behind and the CDC is the one leading the way on this virus.

I guess you haven't been around an American medical school lately.
We could have a discussion about why technological and scientific hegemony has occurred at different times in different parts of the world, but I doubt you'd actually care. Suffice it to say that it has nothing to do with skin color; as far as whether white men are intellectually superior, you're proof that we're not.

[summit]

Western medicine probably killed more than it helped until the around the mid 1800s.

[BmillsSkier]

And yet here we are up against shark-fin rhino-horn soup with snake gall bladder blood basted fried bat eaters.

Gotta keep that virility up.

[sb]

Dayum dood. That sounds like a tuff diet.

You sure it is worth it?

[Timberridge]

Western medicine probably killed more than it helped until the around the mid 1800s.

Around the time when Coca Cola made with real cocaine made its debut.

[Core Shot]

https://nationalfile.com/china-posts...ks-on-outside/

Nice hospital

[wooley12]

You first.

We all have to go someday. I thought you knew.

[Benny Profane]

That reminds me to write that damn will.

[Kenny Satch]

https://nationalfile.com/china-posts...ks-on-outside/

Nice hospital

Small wonder the man in a Toronto hospital wanted to return home rather then stay in China.

[wooley12]

That reminds me to write that damn will.

If you're short on heirs, I'm available.

[Benny Profane]

I hear that a lot lately.

[wooley12]

Buddy was given a $20k camper from an 87 y o guy who didn't want his ahole sil to get it.

[Rideski]

I’ve read a bunch of stories online about this, haven’t seen anyone talking about the cargo ships that departed before this hit the news. Talk about the perfect Petri dishes.

[Benny Profane]

Buddy was given a $20k camper from an 87 y o guy who didn't want his ahole sil to get it.

Yeah, it's pretty much who you don't want to get the shit.

[Kenny Satch]

I’ve read a bunch of stories online about this, haven’t seen anyone talking about the cargo ships that departed before this hit the news. Talk about the perfect Petri dishes.

[sb]

[Core Shot]

Weekend in San Francisco
Ain’t nuthin

[old goat]

I was referring to the nurses claim of 90,000 people infected. That was debunked.

Sorry