A Chinese Scientist let the coronavirus fly out the window ...

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  • dogtag
    Senior Member
    • Sep 2009
    • 14985

    #1

    A Chinese Scientist let the coronavirus fly out the window ...

    to coin a phrase;
    But that's what Scientists usually end up doing.
    You would think they'd have sense enough to close the window
    when they're messing with these dangerous bugs.



    No use closing the window now.
  • m1ashooter
    Senior Member
    • May 2011
    • 3220

    #2
    Just laid in 30 days of food.
    To Error Is Human To Forgive Is Not SAC Policy

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    • Major Tom
      Very Senior Member - OFC
      • Aug 2009
      • 6181

      #3
      One theory had to do with selling live snakes for human consumption in open air market. Snakes were the cobra and graeit (sp).

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      • Vern Humphrey
        Administrator - OFC
        • Aug 2009
        • 15875

        #4
        You know, after Chernobyl, you'd think nations would start taking high tech matters seriously. This is liable to be the disaster of the millennium.

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        • Gun Smoke
          Banned
          • Sep 2019
          • 1658

          #5
          Originally posted by Vern Humphrey
          You know, after Chernobyl, you'd think nations would start taking high tech matters seriously. This is liable to be the disaster of the millennium.
          In the past common sense would have been: Enter China--OK, Exit China--not OK.

          China is in a panic trying to build a 1,000 bed hospital in 5 days and planning to build 3 more afterwards. What do they know that they aren't disclosing?

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          • Vern Humphrey
            Administrator - OFC
            • Aug 2009
            • 15875

            #6
            Originally posted by Gun Smoke
            In the past common sense would have been: Enter China--OK, Exit China--not OK.

            China is in a panic trying to build a 1,000 bed hospital in 5 days and planning to build 3 more afterwards. What do they know that they aren't disclosing?
            It might be wise if we inventory our own hospital capacity and start remedying any shortages.

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            • lyman
              Administrator - OFC
              • Aug 2009
              • 11269

              #7
              Originally posted by Gun Smoke
              In the past common sense would have been: Enter China--OK, Exit China--not OK.

              China is in a panic trying to build a 1,000 bed hospital in 5 days and planning to build 3 more afterwards. What do they know that they aren't disclosing?
              color me paranoid, but how do you build a 1000 bed hospital in 5 days?
              might make that deadline if you put up tents,,,


              I saw the news clips of a bunch of equipment scratching in the dirt,,, anyone else think mass graves?

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              • Vern Humphrey
                Administrator - OFC
                • Aug 2009
                • 15875

                #8
                Originally posted by lyman
                color me paranoid, but how do you build a 1000 bed hospital in 5 days?
                might make that deadline if you put up tents,,,


                I saw the news clips of a bunch of equipment scratching in the dirt,,, anyone else think mass graves?
                Could be -- although the US Army can put up a fairly sophisticated hospital in a day or so.

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                • gwp
                  Senior Member
                  • Aug 2009
                  • 1088

                  #9
                  From: https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...per-in-19-days

                  China builds 57 story skyscraper in 19 days.

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                  • Vern Humphrey
                    Administrator - OFC
                    • Aug 2009
                    • 15875

                    #10
                    Originally posted by gwp
                    From: https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...per-in-19-days

                    China builds 57 story skyscraper in 19 days.
                    But you will notice I did NOT rent an office in that skyscraper.

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                    • dogtag
                      Senior Member
                      • Sep 2009
                      • 14985

                      #11
                      We're bringing home around a 1,000 of our people from Wuhan.
                      What are the chances at least some of them are already infected.
                      Put them on a plane, now they're all infected.

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                      • Vern Humphrey
                        Administrator - OFC
                        • Aug 2009
                        • 15875

                        #12
                        Originally posted by dogtag
                        We're bringing home around a 1,000 of our people from Wuhan.
                        What are the chances at least some of them are already infected.
                        Put them on a plane, now they're all infected.
                        The thing to do is land them at some remote place -- like Nellis AFB and keep them in quarantine. The word "quarantine" comes from the word "quarenta" meaning "forty" -- in the old days people who might harbor disease were kept isolated for forty days.

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                        • Roadkingtrax
                          Senior Member
                          • Feb 2010
                          • 7835

                          #13
                          Originally posted by Vern Humphrey
                          The thing to do is land them at some remote place -- like Nellis AFB and keep them in quarantine. The word "quarantine" comes from the word "quarenta" meaning "forty" -- in the old days people who might harbor disease were kept isolated for forty days.
                          Pretty much a suburb of Las Vegas...bad idea.
                          "The first gun that was fired at Fort Sumter sounded the death-knell of slavery. They who fired it were the greatest practical abolitionists this nation has produced." ~BG D. Ullman

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                          • Gun Smoke
                            Banned
                            • Sep 2019
                            • 1658

                            #14
                            Originally posted by lyman
                            color me paranoid, but how do you build a 1000 bed hospital in 5 days?
                            might make that deadline if you put up tents,,,


                            I saw the news clips of a bunch of equipment scratching in the dirt,,, anyone else think mass graves?
                            When you don't have a union you can get things done but I told my wife after reading the article "no way". Cement would still be wet, structural steel components couldn't be built or built right, etc....

                            Since they obviously missed their deadlines they are saying "1000 bed hospital built in 10 days". 3 more planned as soon as this one is finished. With this sense of urgency it would seem that they are expecting annihilation. They should know if they lose a lot of people the U.S. and most other countries can send them Chinese replacements regardless of how many.

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                            • Vern Humphrey
                              Administrator - OFC
                              • Aug 2009
                              • 15875

                              #15
                              Originally posted by Gun Smoke
                              When you don't have a union you can get things done but I told my wife after reading the article "no way". Cement would still be wet, structural steel components couldn't be built or built right, etc....

                              Since they obviously missed their deadlines they are saying "1000 bed hospital built in 10 days". 3 more planned as soon as this one is finished. With this sense of urgency it would seem that they are expecting annihilation. They should know if they lose a lot of people the U.S. and most other countries can send them Chinese replacements regardless of how many.

                              https://news.yahoo.com/china-buildin...195714692.html
                              And if we run out of Chinese replacements, we can switch to Mexicans and Guatemalans.

                              The article says, "The design of the new hospital will be based on that of Xiaotangshan Hospital, which was erected within a week in Beijing during the SARS outbreak of 2003 " If they've done it before, they can certainly do it again.

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