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Formerly DT: COVID-19 - Featuring Lots of Politics, now CR because political talk not going away

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  • Uncle Boobs
    Uncle Boobs

    Against my better judgment and several beers deep, I have taken you up on this, potentially ending my streak of totally worthless posts. I have done 3 and 7 day averages only on the Worldometer data. 

  • Brisketexan
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    Daughter’s home. A little PTSD, we’re picking up Whataburger to help.

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    Just try and imagine GreenspointTexas being the person to intubate you as you fight for your life against COVID-19. You’re laying there gasping for air while he chastises you for all the things you li

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1 hour ago, Telegraph_it said:

Frikin perfect. 
 

 

i've haven't gotten to use this gif. seems fitting now i think

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33 minutes ago, JesusSweatDuck said:

Every news report I read on this provides so little info.  When exactly did the quarantine go in effect? What exactly does that mean for life on board the ship (i.e., how much interaction, if any, is there).  And of these "new cases" that have popped up in the last few days, how many of were not in direct contact (same rooms/family) with existing infected.   Edit:  I also wonder how many crew have been infected.  At this point I would think they are coming into contact with a lot more people than the passengers.  I smell lawsuits

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59 minutes ago, Deej said:

Torpedo that bitch.

How the fuck do you sanitize a boat after this. Will anyone in their right mind be willing to get on it?

9 minutes ago, JesusSweatDuck said:

How the fuck do you sanitize a boat after this. Will anyone in their right mind be willing to get on it?

Clearly you don’t understand the cruise demographic

9 minutes ago, JesusSweatDuck said:

How the fuck do you sanitize a boat after this. Will anyone in their right mind be willing to get on it?

 

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Our friends on that ship called via FB messenger a bit ago. They’re healthy but sounded really down. Feel for everyone stick on that ship.

16 minutes ago, The Ace of Aces said:

Our friends on that ship called via FB messenger a bit ago. They’re healthy but sounded really down. Feel for everyone stick on that ship.

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20 minutes ago, The Ace of Aces said:

Our friends on that ship called via FB messenger a bit ago. They’re healthy but sounded really down. Feel for everyone stick on that ship.

Friends don't let friends go on cruises. 

5 hours ago, InkaUtexas said:

 

The thing that bothers me about the numbers, besides not trusting the Chinese, is the ratio of recovered to fatalities.

3 minutes ago, Deej said:

Friends don't let friends go on cruises. 

Cruises are amazing if you pick the right line/ship/itinerary. Crystal is fucking out of this world great. 

4 minutes ago, The Ace of Aces said:

Cruises are amazing if you pick the right line/ship/itinerary. Crystal is fucking out of this world great. 

Yeah, I bet it is drop dead gorgeous.

1 minute ago, Tailgate said:

Damn....how long does it take to “recover?”

You have to test negative two weeks apart.  So if your sick for say 3 weeks, 5 weeks from start to finish.  

8 minutes ago, The Ace of Aces said:

Cruises are amazing if you pick the right line/ship/itinerary. Crystal is fucking out of this world great. 

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18 minutes ago, The Ace of Aces said:

Cruises are amazing if you pick the right line/ship/itinerary. Crystal is fucking out of this world great. 

cunard as well.  

I watched an English language Chinese host led video on YouTube. In part of the story she said people were dropping off bodies at mortuaries in Wuhan faster than they can process them, citing an unofficial news report. (Bring out your dead.) They are working 24 hours a day to cremate the dead.

In a city of 11 million they must routinely deal with 500-600 a day. To be that swamped, they may have an excess of 500-1000 a day plus or minus as a guess.

She also said that hospitals only get about 10% of the test kits they need and they think it is intentional to keep the official infected count low. The real numbers could easily be 10x the official numbers.

Based on the early R-0 = 2.6 and doubling every 6.4 days there should be over half million infected in China already and a million by this weekend. Then 10x every 3 weeks or so until quarantines become effective.

16-17% acquire pneumonia that requires hospitalization and 3-4% need intensive care based on studies published in journals. The potential numbers are impossible to deal with.

I am happy Duteurte stopped travel from China. The numbers of Chinese tourists has dropped here. But I have seen some walking the street with their suitcase looking for a new hotel, so I think some are stranded here. They have stopped reported the number if people they are tracking here. My #1 girlfriend has a new cough.

I will try to find the link when I finish dinner.

It seems like there is a high number of bad new reports that are coming out this morning.  This includes the WHO stating the coronavirus now poses a grave threat to the world, the super spreader Brit, and a NYT article about how the virus is spreading through apartment building pipes in Hong Kong. China has done a pretty good job of managing information,  and outside a few outlets, no one has really questioned what's really going on over there.  I think once this pops in Singapore, Thailand and Hong Kong, they will be pushing information because they will need help.  So far the U.S. market hasn't really responded to economic problems,  we'll see how it responds to fear.

Only 2 new cases in Singapore today. I’m on subway at end of rush hour right now. Pretty empty, so I have that going for me. 

If this hits Africa, they are fucked 

Well that's a relief!

 

I know a lot of super spreaders.

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3 hours ago, Casual Encounter said:

China has very unorthodox but effective methods of reducing their population.

Yeah, not what is a little fear among friends. 

 

1 hour ago, RayDog said:

I know a lot of super spreaders.

South Austin's mom has coronavirus?

5 minutes ago, JesusSweatDuck said:

South Austin's mom has coronavirus?

coronavirus has South Austin's mom

4 hours ago, RayDog said:

My #1 girlfriend has a new cough.

Niiice.

3 hours ago, Fastbreak said:

Only 2 new cases in Singapore today. I’m on subway at end of rush hour right now. Pretty empty, so I have that going for me. 

Not sure whether I chose a good or bad time to move to Singapore.

4 hours ago, RayDog said:

My #1 girlfriend has a new cough.

This dwarfs just about everything else posted so far, and this thread could take an epic turn.  

This is how it begins for us

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/10/health/evacuee-wuhan-coronavirus-mistakenly-released/index.html

“The first US evacuee from China known to be infected with the Wuhan coronavirus was mistakenly released from a San Diego hospital after an initial test found the person had not been infected, local health officials said Monday.

The patient arrived in the US last week at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar on a State Department flight from Wuhan, China, and was hospitalized with three others after showing possible symptoms of the virus. After an initial CDC test showed all four patients did not have the novel coronavirus, they were released Sunday and returned to the 14-day federal quarantine at Miramar, the University of California, San Diego Health said in a statement.

"This morning, CDC officials advised San Diego Public Health that further testing revealed that one of the four patients tested positive for (novel coronavirus)," UC San Diego Health said in a statement. "The confirmed positive patient was returned to UC San Diego Health for observation and isolation until cleared by the CDC for release."”

4 hours ago, RayDog said:

She also said that hospitals only get about 10% of the test kits they need and they think it is intentional to keep the official infected count low. The real numbers could easily be 10x the official numbers.

Based on the early R-0 = 2.6 and doubling every 6.4 days there should be over half million infected in China already and a million by this weekend. Then 10x every 3 weeks or so until quarantines become effective.

Most of us have been assuming the infected are 10x the official number, especially since people accurately predict the numbers in advance.  I don’t buy that it’s as deadly as some are making it out to be -  else, out of the nearly 500 infected outside of China, we should have seen some deaths in non-Chinese (the two international deaths had Chinese backgrounds), and we should have seen more deaths overall beyond those two.   With that said, Wuhan is overwhelmed, and it’s easy to see that plenty who would normally survive pneumonia caused by corona are dying from it   

 I don’t think they are artificially limiting the number of test kits.   It’s in their best interest to get a handle on actual numbers.   They control the test processing labs - if they want to cover up numbers, they do it at the labs.   And based on the fact that folks have been guessing the official numbers well in advance, they are covering up the numbers.   

The fumigation efforts alone show that something has them spooked, and they are desperate.

 

14 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

This is how it begins for us

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/10/health/evacuee-wuhan-coronavirus-mistakenly-released/index.html

“The first US evacuee from China known to be infected with the Wuhan coronavirus was mistakenly released from a San Diego hospital after an initial test found the person had not been infected, local health officials said Monday.

The patient arrived in the US last week at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar on a State Department flight from Wuhan, China, and was hospitalized with three others after showing possible symptoms of the virus. After an initial CDC test showed all four patients did not have the novel coronavirus, they were released Sunday and returned to the 14-day federal quarantine at Miramar, the University of California, San Diego Health said in a statement.

"This morning, CDC officials advised San Diego Public Health that further testing revealed that one of the four patients tested positive for (novel coronavirus)," UC San Diego Health said in a statement. "The confirmed positive patient was returned to UC San Diego Health for observation and isolation until cleared by the CDC for release."”

Well, they were released into quarantine.

Just now, Casual Encounter said:

Well, they were released into quarantine.

Our only saving grace.   At least they weren’t on a cruise ship.  

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1 minute ago, Casual Encounter said:

Well, they were released into quarantine.

Does that reset everyone else's quarantine clock? 

This is translated from Weibo (Chinese social media)

”A high speed rail cleaning worker in Shaanxi confirmed to be infected. Had been on 20 high speed rail service across China.”

I still wonder if some Wuhan airport workers were spreading it to travelers.  

1 minute ago, atomheartbevo said:

For fucks sake 

 

Lulz. 

WHO is not the best, but this won’t come back to haunt us

https://edition.cnn.com/asia/live-news/coronavirus-outbreak-02-10-20-intl-hnk/h_3e6957b38dd51cbb62b0d55c07b8a42a

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The newly unveiled Trump administration budget proposal includes steep cuts for global health programs and the World Health Organization, even as the world grapples with the spread of the novel coronavirus. However, it does increase its proposed funding for Global Health Security. 

The FY21 Budget Proposal, released today, outlines a nearly $65M proposed cut to the World Health Organization – a more than 50% decrease from FY20 funding. 

It also proposes a 34% overall cut to Global Health Programs.

 

flew to Seattle yesterday and woke up this morning with runny nose and my “Oura” ring (tracks sleep patterns etc) is telling me I didn’t sleep well last night due to increased body temperature. Good times. 

Been nice knowing you all. 

Just now, Casual Encounter said:

Has it?

Of course. Best batch of assholes on the interwebz

Frikin perfect. 
 
 


He was just planning ahead for Tuesday
41 minutes ago, BrazilHorn said:

Been nice knowing you all. 

 

19 minutes ago, Casual Encounter said:

Has it?

It's only been a casual encounter.

2 hours ago, InkaUtexas said:

Yeah, not what is a little fear among friends. 

 


Yep, bullying ‘aughta do it.
Those fucking jabronis look like a HS gang.

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