Feds Ratchet Up The Corona Virus Response

[m1ashooter]

Seems like they feds have finally woke up to the possible seriousness of this virus. I wonder why they went from 100 to warp speed almost over night? What do they know that they aren't letting out yet? I just don't trust them to be upfront with us. So make sure you have a least 30 days of food onhand incase you get stuck at home.

http://news.trust.org/item/20200131222810-fydoy

[lyman]

I wonder what the chinese are not telling the world

[dryheat]

Oohh, it's a conspiracy. China has 750 million people and 200 have died. The US has what? a dozen cases so far?
- a seventh U.S. coronavirus case had been confirmed in Northern California.-
Have you been to China Town in San Franscisco? It IS China.

[Mark in Ottawa]

The thing that worries me the most is just how seriously China is taking this. Being somewhat suspicious of China, I fear that they may suspect or know that the virus is far more dangerous than they are letting on and are keeping quiet to avoid mass panic.

Remember that old saying "If you can keep your head, when all others are losing theirs, then you clearly don't understand the seriousness of the situation"

[Vern Humphrey]

You make a good point. But consider this -- if it IS more serious than they are saying, it will soon come out. And the coverup will make things worse. Surely, they understand that.

[Gun Smoke]

China has supposedly built one 1000 bed hospital in a matter of 7 days with 3 more on the way of the same size. They also converted a large vacant building into a hospital. They aren't doing all of this due to the kindness of their hearts.

To me this sounds like they are scared of annihilation.

Surrounding communities in China have boarded up their windows, covered their houses with visqueen and have made dirt berms on the roads to keep those evacuating from Wuhan out of their areas.

As stated on another thread here, for the Chinese government to be so suddenly concerned it may well be a biological warfare accident of theirs.

The UN has declared this a global emergency.

[togor]

A bat virus crossed into people, many of whom get it and have no symptoms whatsoever. That poses risks of a sort but hardly speaks to annihilation.

Remember H1N1 in 2009? It went through our house. One daughter felt really bad for about 2 days. I felt a little off for about 1 day. No one required medical attention. About 1 month later the vaccine became available and we got it anyways, just because.

[lyman]

A bat virus crossed into people, many of whom get it and have no symptoms whatsoever. That poses risks of a sort but hardly speaks to annihilation.

Remember H1N1 in 2009? It went through our house. One daughter felt really bad for about 2 days. I felt a little off for about 1 day. No one required medical attention. About 1 month later the vaccine became available and we got it anyways, just because.

friend mentioned his Doc told him not to worry so much about the flu,

sick, infirm, elderly etc will always be a higher risk factor

what the Doc did mention was wait a year, till this strain has a chance to go around the world and mutate,


however, as paranoid as that sounds, most countries (1st world or 'civilized') will have a low death and infection rate, just due to the health care and precautions we generally take every day, esp w sanitation

[togor]

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however, as paranoid as that sounds, most countries (1st world or 'civilized') will have a low death and infection rate, just due to the health care and precautions we generally take every day, esp w sanitation

Yes

[Roadkingtrax]

The FLU is more widespread.

[m1ashooter]

Gentlemen I just have to ponder what the medical community thought when the first cases of the Spanish Flue occurred in 1918. My family was directly affected by it because it killed my great uncle who was a healthy US Army Private. So I pay attention to these things. I don't panic but I pay attention.

[Gun Smoke]

Gentlemen I just have to ponder what the medical community thought when the first cases of the Spanish Flue occurred in 1918. My family was directly affected by it because it killed my great uncle who was a healthy US Army Private. So I pay attention to these things. I don't panic but I pay attention.

+1

The flu that the WW1 troops brought home from Europe killed more people than the war itself.

[Vern Humphrey]

Gentlemen I just have to ponder what the medical community thought when the first cases of the Spanish Flue occurred in 1918. My family was directly affected by it because it killed my great uncle who was a healthy US Army Private. So I pay attention to these things. I don't panic but I pay attention.

I will tell you want the medical community thought -- or at least what the US Government thought. There was an old superstition that smells cause disease (malaria, for example, means "bad air.") The US Government told people to wear sachets of herbs around their necks -- they advised people to wear assafoeditia, a very strong-smelling herb also known as "the devil's dung." Sachets of assafoeditia were sold in every drugstore in the country. Little children in school studied in a cloud of that awful smell.

When you think about the government running healthcare, think about wearing assafoeditia.