Coronavirus

[togor]

The 1918 flu first emerged in the spring including among the troops but it was wartime and so none of the powers would admit to a nascent epidemic. It circulated at a reduced rate through the warmer months then came on like gangbusters in the fall. If we're given a summer reprieve it's important to understand it could be temporary and that we should use the time wisely.

If anyone is interested, an interesting story from the CDC web site about the 1918 virus and its laboratory reconstruction and study.

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/reconstruction-1918-virus.html

[kj47]

A very interesting article, thanks for posting.

[Major Tom]

The coronavirus isn't as deadly as the media makes it out to be. It's scare tactics to ruin economies world wide.

[togor]

The coronavirus isn't as deadly as the media makes it out to be. It's scare tactics to ruin economies world wide.

"...isn't as deadly as..."

Which is a way of saying it is deadly. The Chicoms don't strike me as people who easily flinch yet they locked down a province and shut down chunks of their economy to try to get ahead of this thing. From the sound of it, the virus is serious enough that it is worth trying to slow it down for awhile to buy time to study it and devise counter-measures. Plus there's nothing wrong with the occasional practice run. Like the 1918 flu, sooner or later a real nasty bug could come out of nowhere.

[Art]

A bit of good news. A lab in Austin, Texas has a vaccine in the testing phase, they're in the rat stage. They believe they'll be able to have it ready by the end of the year, maybe during the fall if the Feds shorten up the trials protocol. That they could come up with a vaccine pretty quickly isn't a huge surprise since the protocols for vaccines are well established and corona virus types cause a bunch of other diseases like the common cold so is well known.

Togor is correct about a "practice run." Nobody wants people dying or even sick but this does show that we can spin up pretty quickly when necessary.

[S.A. Boggs]

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How long before stores/banks will be robbed by a "masked" person?
Sam

[oscars]

Trump — a self-professed germaphobe — is "melting down over this." Perhaps not shockingly, he's focused on the media, in particular, one person close to the White House said. That reportedly includes him telling aides last week that he was concerned journalists would purposefully contract COVID-19 in an attempt to infect him on Air Force One.

[rayg]

Togar..You are so funny..

[S.A. Boggs]

Togar..You are so funny..

Must be hell trying to decide who one is.
Sam

[Roadkingtrax]

Must be hell trying to decide who one is.
Sam

You're old enough to have figured yourself out by now.

If you are looking for opinions on who "you" are on this forum, there are a few popular ones.

[Madara]

I swear this looks like it is been deliberately spread around the world, if its truly in Iran then how did it get there. its basically everywhere except Africa.

[togor]

I swear this looks like it is been deliberately spread around the world, if its truly in Iran then how did it get there. its basically everywhere except Africa.

A lot of Russian trolls are spreading that idea around online, along with other misinformation. Trying to fuel paranoia and conspiracy thoughts I guess.

There's no obvious reason for the Chinese to shoot themselves in the foot first then watch the rest of the world get sick.

[lyman]

A lot of Russian trolls are spreading that idea around online, along with other misinformation. Trying to fuel paranoia and conspiracy thoughts I guess.

There's no obvious reason for the Chinese to shoot themselves in the foot first then watch the rest of the world get sick.

actually,


since the threat to the young is pretty low, and the aged are harder hit,,,


conspiracy theories are that this was released to get rid of the burden of the old, infirm, etc,

[togor]

I don't believe that. Does anyone?

[lyman]

I don't believe that. Does anyone?

surely some do