Los Angeles-Area Officials Declare Emergency After Confirming Six New Coronavirus Cases Over 48 hours (cnbc.com) 152
Los Angeles-area officials have discovered six new COVID-19 cases in the county over the last 48 hours, prompting them to declare a local emergency to help free up federal and state funding. From a report: Kathryn Barger, chairwoman of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, told reporters Wednesday that she just signed a proclamation declaring a local emergency. "I want to reiterate that this is not a response rooted in panic," she said. County Supervisor Hilda L. Solis said the proclamation allows local officials "to further draw down resources from both the federal and state level of government." Health officials for the City of Pasadena and City of Long Beach said they, too, plan to declare a local emergencies later Wednesday. The new cases in Los Angeles County bring the state's total to 35, more than any other state, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In Washington state, where at least nine people have died, there are at least 27 cases. There haven't been any fatalities outside of Washington.
Antivirals (Score:1)
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Not curious enough to google it, evidently.
We need vaccine urgent (Score:1)
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My understanding is that we have a vaccine, or at least a known recipe. The problem is that it has some nasty side effects. i.e. it will do more harm than good.
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There's some confusion out there because there are promising immunotherapy treatments in the works that *aren't* vaccines.
Trump recently got some media heat for supposedly confusing a treatment with a vaccine in a briefing, but in fact what the industry representative was talking about was a monoclonal antibody treatment. That's pretty cutting edge stuff, and you wouldn't expect even a fairly scientifically literate layman to be familiar with it.
The experts are saying that vaccine trials won't likely start
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My understanding is that we have a vaccine, or at least a known recipe. The problem is that it has some nasty side effects. i.e. it will do more harm than good.
Not anytime soon. If this turns out to be seasonal (and there are good reasons to believe it will), then a vaccine will be available next flu season if this thing is still a factor then. Some things really cannot be rushed.
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No. Not unless you call immediate cremation a vaccine. And it will, at best, be months until there is an effective vaccine. There are treatments, but for severe cases they are things like vacuuming out the lungs repeatedly in an ICU.
I still think widespread installation of UV emitting lights would slow down the spread significantly, but strongly decreasing it's persistence, but I can't find any evidence that this has been tried.
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Damn, I'm sure nobody thought of that until now. I'll just whip up some vaccine out in my shed now that you enlightened us.
Thanks for your contribution!
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Why Worry? (Score:5, Funny)
The US certainly has the best health care system on the planet. If any country is prepped and ready to deal with this pandemic, it's going to be us.
Don't forget, Mike Pence is a fairly seasoned pandemic leader, having overseen the response in Indiana while he was governor during an HIV outbreak. Trump may not be a great guy, but Pence is a veteran at this.
Not only that, but compared to say the fragile political situation in Italy, or the Xi's own fragile view of himself in China, the US is free from such political nonsense, ensuring that the pandemic will be delt with objectively and honestly. I really don't get why some people are so paranoid that there is a run on grocery stores and costco.
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Pence oversaw the worst AIDS epidemic in his state's history. He botched the response horribly.
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Pence oversaw the worst AIDS epidemic in his state's history. He botched the response horribly.
Wooossshhh!!!!
Run on costco makes sense at this time. (Score:4, Insightful)
I really don't get why some people are so paranoid that there is a run on grocery stores and costco.
Because they've been informed, by CDC, WHO, and lots of other officials, that they might need to self-quarantine for two weeks.
That means everybody in their family will be stuck at home for two weeks. Maybe four or more, if somebody comes down with it. They won't be able to go out and buy food, so they better have some on hand. Also water (in case there's a power failure or contamination), toilet paper, paper towels, etc. If you'd run out in two to four weeks you'd better stock up now, while you can.
Costco has name brand canned food by the box for cheap. (Not the 10-year stuff the Mormons use for their religiously-mandated year's supply, but it's good for a couple years easy. It's the regular stuff you'd normally use, so eat it over a couple years (and rotate in more) and it won't go to waste. Further: when there was a run on bottled water in their Fremont store (a silicon valley town) they brought in five truckloads - and didn't hike the price. Good place to stock up.
Can't count on delivery from outside: Delivery folks might be down or busy with other quarantined. Also: That nursing home in Washington with all the cases is in Kirkland: The founding city of Costco (notice the name of their store brand?) Still very close to their headquarters and database ops, and lots of headquarters folk living there. Ditto Amazon: They just had their first case - in an office building two blocks from their Seattle H.Q. By the time YOU'RE quarantined, will THEY be too?
Besides: In the event of any other disruption - earthquake, hurricane, big fire, flood, etc. - you're on your own for at least three days before out-of-state help can get there and get set up. Having some emergency supplies is recommended.
So when a lot of people realize, all at once, that having more supplies is a good idea, they buy a bunch more than the regular stores have on hand. It's not panic. It's not paranoia. It's just the logical fallout of good common sense combined with a news-driven simultaneous shift of attention.
Influenza has caused 18,000 46,000 deaths... (Score:4, Informative)
and has infected between 32 and 45 million people. The 2009 influenza season, which was labeled a "pandemic", had 12,469 deaths.
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandem... [cdc.gov]
For comparison the Coronavirus has killed, worldwide, 3,249 people as of 3/4/20.
Why the lack of worry about the deaths of, perhaps, 46,000 people and such a large concern about the deaths of only 3,249 people?
The influenza virus, in some form or another attacks every year, and every year kills 20,000 people, give or take a few thousand. It kills mainly the very young, because they lack the anti-bodies, and the very old, because their immunity is impaired due to old age. The Coronavirus started at about the same time as the 2019-2020 flu season, but its growth phase is still growing logarithmically. While its death rate is only around 3%, that could mean a potential death count of hundreds of millions unless the growth curve flattens out. The sooner the better.
Re:Influenza has caused 18,000 46,000 deaths... (Score:5, Insightful)
"More people die in cars than in airliner crashes so why all the hub bub about these 737s?"
That's how your mind works. Like an anti-vaxxer's.
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So let's compare the mortality of oranges (Score:2, Interesting)
You're feeding a troll. Going by the UID, I suspect he's gone senile, which would be an excuse for following the GOT Trump line, or he's died (which is still a great excuse) and some troll has hacked the dormant account.
If we want to do mortality comparisons, then we shouldn't compare the orange coronovirus to the apple flu. We should compare the coronovirus Covid-19 to the coronovirus common cold. Sometimes people actually do die from the common cold, though the number is apparently so low I couldn't find
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There is no way the COVID-19 deathrate is 3% or more. I mean 3% of the small percent of people who get sick enough to be in the hospital sure, but not of everyone exposed. I don't understand why WHO said this. Anyway, this NPR article gives some insight into how young people basically aren't very affected by this virus. If the 9 or 10 deaths in the US were healthy teens, I'd be worried. If it is only extremely sick old people, it's probably the same as the regular flu it seems like.
https://www.npr.org/secti [npr.org]
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The overall mortality of H1N1 in 2009 are as follows:
Total infected in the USA: 60.8 Million cases
Total deaths in the USA: 12,469
Source is CDC [cdc.gov].
This means that mortality is 0.02%. Compare that to Covid19, which is 3.4%, per the WHO, and you realize how serious it is. It also has not peaked, so no one knows how long it will take to subside.
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No, mortality is not 3.4% according to WHO. Stop spreading that misquote.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/... [talkingpointsmemo.com]
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The data that is available is here [arcgis.com].
As I said in another post, data from China and Iran are suspect. They may have fudged it. Either they fudged the overall infections, the number of deaths, or both. By how much, we don't know, and may never know.
But if you take Italy's data, which should have some degree of transparency and accountability, it is 4.24% (197 deaths / 4636 cases).
And yes, that is an overall rate. We don't have the raw data for age distribution of infections and deaths, but
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But even in Italy's case that's people with symptoms, were tested, etc... unknown the number in populace carrying it without knowing. It seems to hardly affect most children too.
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How it affects children is unknown. ... what about Italy or Washington State?
A poster here on Slashdot today said he took his kid to hospital, and they diagnosed pneumonia (which is a symptom of Coronavirus as well as a dozen other pathogens). When he asked for a Coronavirus test, they told him that Alabama does not do testing for that virus, unless you traveled to China or South Korea! Where is the logic here
As for it affecting younger people, there is anecdotal data on this. For example Wenliang Li, the C
Because we know how far the Flu spreads (Score:2)
This is the problem with disaster & problem management. Nobody remembers all the disasters you adverted. It's like the 2008 market crash, which happened because of rampant deregulation going on since the 80s. E
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Viruses do no "attack". What kind of maroon are you?
Re:Influenza has caused 18,000 46,000 deaths... (Score:4, Informative)
Why the lack of worry about the deaths of, perhaps, 46,000 people and such a large concern about the deaths of only 3,249 people?
Because you're comparing a disease in its peak to a disease well and truly still in massive growth. COVID has all the marks to be far more contagious than influenza and has already proven to be significantly more fatal.
I hope you are still alive in 6 months when we can discuss how horrid this thing *turned out to be*.
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Covid-19 has a average mortality rate of about 2%. If only spreads as far as 2009's influenza and infects 32 to 45 million people, then you're looking at 640,000 to 900,000 deaths.
It's not the 3,249 people who have died that we're worried about. It's the other 896,751 people who haven't died yet that we're worried about saving.
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the quoted 2% rate is nonsense; Over 10X the people had the disease and didn't even know it. 2% of those who were ill enough to go to hosopital died. They were old and/or weak.
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Seems you are the one challenged by facts:
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/... [talkingpointsmemo.com]
Time to escape from la! (Score:2)
Time to escape from la!
California might be OK (Score:2)
Wait until this thing hits Florida.
Re:California might be OK (Score:4, Funny)
God's waiting room. I suspect that much of the waiting will be over ...
And how many people (Score:2)
It is time (Score:2)
The time for us to consider thinking about the possibility of panicking has arrived. Repent!
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Seattle did too (King County) (Score:2)
We also declared an emergency, but they won't let us meet in gatherings larger than 9 people, so nobody knows about it.
They even canceled the public health committee meeting for the city, so nobody knows at all.
Wowsers.
Not to worry folks... (Score:2)
Like a miracle, in April, when it gets warmer, it'll just disappear! Mostly because our Savior(tm) Mike "Christ" Pense will have prayed it away like he did the HIV epidemic when he was governor.
I feel safer already knowing our best and brightest are in charge everyone!
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So of the 6 people we can expect 0.12 of them will die from complications due to the virus?
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HIV does have the lead, true. 32 million dead so far.
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Well, HIV had a ~40 year head start.
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I can barely wait for Covid-19 to be detected after a Trump rally.
Why are you hoping for harm against others that hold political viewpoints you disagree with? Epicaricacy is not a trait becoming of a civil society.
Especially since there's no sane reason for Turmp [sic] to be holding ANY rallies right now.
Maybe, maybe not, Trump is not running unopposed for the 2020 Republican nomination for President. In fact, there's 1 delegate allocated to Bill Weld (who ran as Gary Johnson's VP in 2016). In addition, Joe Walsh and Roque De La Fuente are also running for the nomination. They probably don't have a chance of winning but that doesn't mean there's no reason not to
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Yep, that's why we have folks like Alex Jones and his ilk. Spewing hatred onto the airwaves and sowing discord and division to whoever will listen.
That's why the left has steadily run a campaign of lies, racism, and fear to get elected.
That's why the left has steadily decreased education and social safety net spending wherever they get elected.
REVENGE!
Oh wait....sorry, lulz. That's the right's playbook.
For the record, both the 'left' and the 'right' are false dichotomies. They both ensure the rich stay powe
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That's the right's playbook.
For the record, both the 'left' and the 'right' are false dichotomies. They both ensure the rich stay powerful while the rest of us pay for it. But hey, go Team AgreesWithMe, huh? RAH RAH Party before People! DOWN WITH MY ENEMY, WHO HAPPENS TO BE MYSELF!
This whole thing was set up when O'Blama was elected in 2007. Then the Right wing went batshit insane when he was re-elected.
So whenOrnge man bad was elected in 2016, the left wing...... went batshit insane.
Same insanity, different day, different groups. If Trump insisted on shutting things down or declaring a national emergency, no expense too much, the others would be yapping about it being horrid deficiet spending, or a hoax.
Calmer minds are not prevailing. Meanwhile, let's just hope that we don'
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Doesn't sound like you've studied much or any history. Your view of the timing is quite bizarre. The trends go way back, though the Internet has greatly increased the tempo in recent years.
Perhaps the funniest aspect is that the Democratic Party (under various labels) has always been the "group" that is most resistant to real change. Not well organized, and not really committed to any principles, but quite stubborn about wanting to avoid major changes.
But the relevant issue here was supposed to be Xi's game
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You're just feeding a troll.
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HIV does have the lead, true. 32 million dead so far.
With a ~4 decade head start. How long until the corona virus catches up?
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HIV does have the lead, true. 32 million dead so far.
So are you conflating the flue with HIV and AIDS?
AIDS is the killer BTW, but go ahead and panic - we'll be doing this every flu season from now on. Might as well figure out the details so we can really go insane next year.
Re:Cognitive dissonance (Score:4, Informative)
So of the 6 people we can expect 0.12 of them will die from complications due to the virus?
Neat... you can multiply... the real math problem is that if there's 6 new CONFIRMED cases in a new major metro area, that means our attempts tin quarantine it have failed, there are almost certainly many more unconfirmed cases today, and almost certainly exponentially more cases in the coming weeks (because this thing IS fairly contagious, the Chinese aren't just welding people into buildings to enforce quarantine on a lark). So the threat of a major pandemic (which BTW does have a 2%+ mortality rate, i.e. orders of magnitude more than your standard flu) is very real. So now go off and multiply millions by 2%.
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Old statistics as well. Mortality rate was updated to 3.4% of known cases by WHO yesterday:
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/0... [cnbc.com]
Re:Cognitive dissonance (Score:4, Interesting)
The key there is "of known cases". When you consider unknown cases, the range is between ~0.6% and 3.4% based on the assumption that 0-80% of cases are unknown.
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The key there is "of known cases". When you consider unknown cases, the range is between ~0.6% and 3.4% based on the assumption that 0-80% of cases are unknown.
Indeed, but only when you consider that those 0-80% are still in the asymptomatic incubation stage of the infection. There's nothing to say that many of those 80% won't end up becoming a fatal statistic themselves.
Doing dumb multiplication while ignoring the time varying nature of viruses is just silly, and guess what, the 3.4% figure actually takes into account some of what you considered since dumb multiplication actually comes out closer to 6%
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Using the same method and breaking it down a little. Separating out Hubei province from the rest of China.
numbers from here [offloop.net]
mortality country (known basic set)
7.19% US (153)
4.3% Hubei(67332) 2871 dead
3.46% Italy (3098)
3.17% Mainland China total (80271) 2981 dead
3.15% Iran (2922)
1.40% France (285)
0.85% Mainland China without Hubei (12939) 110 dead
0.62% South Korea (5621)
0.00% Germany (262)
Not getting completely overwhelmed makes a big difference too.
(Take half those numbers with a pinch of sal
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(Take half those numbers with a pinch of salt though...)
I would, 150 cases is roughly a 10% margin of error.
China, Korea, Italy, and Iran are the only countries with enough cases (base on the last who report I had seen) to get down into the 3% or lower margin of error.
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Or it could be that S Korea has a different metric for declaring a case to be coronavirus - possibly reported symptoms rather than a comprehensive test, so there's a lot of standard flu in those numbers, reducing the reported mortality rate.
Not a chance. Korea are doing a ton of testing. It's all over the news.
If you don't even know enough to know this, is your speculation really helping?
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No, the statistic is 3.4% of "confirmed infections causing the hospitalization of the infected person". It does not include the millions infected that do not need hospitalization.
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No, the statistic is 3.4% of "confirmed infections causing the hospitalization of the infected person". It does not include the millions infected that do not need hospitalization.
Indeed. Nobody knows the actual mortality rate at this time because nobody knows how many light cases there are.
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So what should they do then? Make shit up? Not tabulate statistics at all because of the nebulous "unreported" numbers?
They are working with what they have. Bitching about it not being totally accurate because they aren't including a number that nobody could possibly know is a waste of everyone's time.
Re: Cognitive dissonance (Score:2)
2% is an over estimation. Its 2% of those confirmed. Not everyone was tested. In fact less than half of those that get it even develop the severe conditions that wind up getting them tested in the first place. The tests are not so great either. There are a lot of false negatives as well. The biggest problem with this virus is its incubation period which can be as high as 24 days. Can you imagine just how many people you can innocently interact with in 24 days? If 6 people have it in LA, the I would safely
Re: Cognitive dissonance (Score:2)
What quarantine?
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Also, it's OK, the Japanese sent Godzilla over to break down the walls of the buildings and everyone who'd been welded inside was rescued.
In case you don't get this, the welding thing is a hoax, so saying Godzilla rescued them all is a valid response.
Re: Cognitive dissonance (Score:2)
They should talk to the US government. Everyone knows the Navy was able to get people welded to steel during the Philadelpia experiment.
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So of the 6 people we can expect 0.12 of them will die from complications due to the virus?
Yes, and out of 600,000 we can expect ~12,000 to die assuming the 2% mortality rate is correct.
Some epidemiologists say it's 2%, some are saying it's over 3%. Either way it's not good.
Having a small number of people infected is troubling, but having millions potentially infected is pretty serious, especially if they're walking around infecting others.
For example, take King County WA where there are ~2.1 million people. Let's say that only half get infected (~1,000,000 people) and only 1% of those die. That'
Re:Cognitive dissonance (Score:4, Insightful)
For example, take King County WA where there are ~2.1 million people. Let's say that only half get infected (~1,000,000 people) and only 1% of those die.
From my reading, a majority percentage of the deaths in King County were from one nursing home in Kirkland. Nursing homes are incubators for communicative diseases, and add the fact that the most vulnerable are concentrated there (due to age and illness), it skews the statistics significantly.
Now I'm not saying there's not a risk, but the King County statistics don't seem to show mass contagion (yet).
On a personal note, I feel lucky that I moved away last July. Last year this time I lived 3 miles from that nursing home (though not in it).
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County actually just bumped it up to 10 deaths, but there hasn't been any reporting on where #10 was at yet. So somewhere between half, and a small majority.
Now I'm not saying there's not a risk, but the King County statistics don't seem to show mass contagion (yet).
They kinda do. We've got infections in Snohomish, and in several places in KC.
Amazon worker came down with it today too.
On a personal note, I feel lucky that I moved away last July. Last year this time I lived 3 miles from that nursing home (though not in it).
I'm downtown Seattle. I have the distinct feeling it's going to blow up over here soon.
One less zero there, Sir Isaac... (Score:2)
Looks like yer zero finger got a little excited there, Mr Newton.
OTOH, the greater Los Angeles Metropolitan Area had a population of moar than 12 Million way back in the 2010 census, so that would boost your numerator by a factor of moar than 3.
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Looks like yer zero finger got a little excited there, Mr Newton.
Yep, my bad.
But you still see my point- a lot of people are at risk of serious illness or death.
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Yes, if solid points [1% or moar] will die, rather than merely tiny fractions of a point, and if lots of people become infected, then we could be looking at lots & lots of deaths.
Personally, though, I'm still sitting on the fence as to whether or not Corona-chan amounts to an "Happening".
These days, we get fed so damned much bullshit from so damned many conmen [with agendas] that we can't trust any statistics anymoar.
For instance, eve
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The Wuhan illness rate for children was around 1% or less. SARS-CoV-2,the virus that causes COVID-19, doesn't seem particularly harmful to children (ie children infected with SARS-CoV-2 are asymptomatic for COVID-19). I suspect the primary reason for closing the schools was to protect all the old teachers, and to prevent the little disease vectors from spreading the illness through the population like plague rats.
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"Some epidemiologists say it's 2%, some are saying it's over 3%. Either way it's not good."
Quite correct -- that is not good. A proper virus should have a kill rate over 10% of infected, not merely a couple percent of those who get sick enough to require medical care.
Re: Cognitive dissonance (Score:2)
One aspect not considered, It just came to me, is that the higher the infected population becomes, the higher the mortality rate. Why? They run out of resources to to keep the most severe infected alive. There are only so many ventilators and ICU rooms. What happens when we have shortages of albuterol inhalers and nebulizer vials?
The genie is out of the bottle. With a 24 day incubation period (latest predicted max) the real cases are likely 100x the known cases. Maybe 1000x. 20 days is a long time to intera
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And, if I understand the latest reports on this, it seems you can get infected with it over and over again. I don't know if that's been confirmed 100%, but that may turn out to be the case.
Much like the common strains of flu it won't be the exact same strain, but close enough to make you sick all over again.
Some epidemiologists are also predicting that the virus is here to stay and that we'll probably see it every year now as a part of the normal flu season, just like other strains of the flu. Yippee.
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Why should anyone care what people who can't do basic arithmetic think?
You're right- my stupid typo totally renders every other point about the risk of infection to be silly and not worth worrying about.
So please, mingle with the crowds and lick all the doorknobs you want. Prove me wrong by taking some risks!
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WHO estimate is 3.4%
So nowhere nears as bad as ordinary flu then:
https://www.globalresearch.ca/... [globalresearch.ca]
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Search for Covid19 test kits in the US, you might get surprised, compare countries, which actually report their cases from day to day and listen to what doctors are saying, if you do not believe them, then walk your talk next time you need medical help.
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South Korea gets top international marks in the getting-your-shit-together for coronavius department. They hit that same six confirmed case benchmark on January 31. Five weeks later they had over 5000 cases.
This thing is roughly twice as infectious as a flu and has a long incubation period. If you've got six confirmed cases, you probably have a couple dozen asymptomatic cases walking around. Now is the time to put a lid on it.
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I have nuclear bombs for sale. Guaranteed to raise the temperature at the point of detonation 1 million degrees in less that 1 billionth of a second killing any virus within a several hundred yards. Special pricing available for quantity purchase necessary to wipe out aerosolized viruses from larger areas. Discounting increases with number of square miles that need to be cleaned.
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Or... we could ask people to wash their hands and cover their mouths when they cough.
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yes but that's only marginally more effective than hiding under a desk when the bombs start falling.
Re:Cognitive dissonance (Score:5, Informative)
Hiding under the desk was actually sensible advice when Duck and Cover was made. We were concerned with a single small bomb dropped from a plane. If someone detonated a Hiroshima style bomb at the southern end of Central Park, death would be certain and instantaneous at ground zero, but at the northern end of Central Park you'd have 15 seconds to prepare for a 1 psi overpressure wave. After the wave passed you'd have some minutes to find shelter before fallout arrived.
Duck and Cover only became absurd when the concern became many, much larger warheads, but they kept showing the now obsolete movie.
Here's the lesson: even catastrophes come in different sizes.
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Math is your friend, even when doing idiotic examples.
In a billionth of a second, a nuclear detonation will kill every virus within about a foot. Because light doesn't travel farther than that in a billionth of a second.
A millionth of a second would mean "a hundred yards" (same reason). "Several hundred yards" is about three times that lo
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"So of the 6 people we can expect 0.12 of them will die from complications due to the virus?"
Hopefully not before Pence shook their hands before going to report to the president.
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Not sure why you included HIV in there, but whatever....
I'm wondering when they are going to do something as drastic as prohibit all public gatherings, like political rallies?
I have to guess those are a quick way to spread coronavirus....?
If it REALLY got bad....what about voting? I mean, last night I saw lines and lines of people waiting just for the Dem primary voting in L.A. .......
I"m just wondering in general, the potential for this virus to disr
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I think my sig serves as my answer to "wondering in general".
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I'm wondering when they are going to do something as drastic as prohibit all public gatherings, like political rallies?
I have to guess those are a quick way to spread coronavirus....?
If that's what it takes to stop Bernie, then so be it.
If it REALLY got bad....what about voting?
Obvious solution: Universal mail-in voting. No lines. No voting booths. Three states have already done this: Colorado, Oregon, and Washington.
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Sounds interesting...BUT, how will you check for ID to make sure the right person is voting?
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In Oregon, they compare the signature on the 'privacy envelope' that contains the ballot, with the one on the voter registration card filed the last time you changed your address (so they know where the hell to send the ballot to).
Pick me ! pick me !
Can I be the one to do the signature checks?
Re: Cognitive dissonance (Score:2)
Clearly universal mail-in voting is racist, biased against the illiterate, suppresses minority voting this ensuring four more years of Trump, and loss of control of the house/senate. Thatâ(TM)s why only approved people should be allowed to vote.
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If it REALLY got bad....what about voting? I mean, last night I saw lines and lines of people waiting just for the Dem primary voting in L.A. .......
This year the GOP is not even bothering to have primary voting, so if Republicans get the virus it's going to be from attending a Trump rally. Will this be William Weld's road to the White House?
"Declaring an Emergency" =/= Emergency (Score:1)
I agree, it's really silly. Every County deals w/ it the same way to approve overtime. But to be fair, this allows the public watchdogs to easily identify incidents where irregular spend occurs in terms of budgeting.
But the Board of Supervisors should do something else like a declaration of funding a Task Force or Working Group with a clear end date and the option of extension.
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There are numerous reports of not enough testing kits, meanwhile CDC removes stats about the virus from it's website leaving just some general instructions.
Re:Don't worry, Libtards..... (Score:5, Informative)
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/2009-pandemic-timeline.html
[April 18]First novel 2009 H1N1 flu infections were reported by CDC to the World Health Organization (WHO)
[April 26]The United States Government declared 2009 H1N1 a Public Health Emergency of International Concern
There had been zero deaths in this time. "score 4 insightful"... Sigh.
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before the Obama administration even mentioned it.
Completely false. 1000 were dead before the Obama administration declared a "national emergency" a process which has a very legal definition that allows the federal government access to methods not part of it's normal operating condition, such as money to build a wall and keep mexicans out.
Obama "mentioned" it straight away. Obama declared a "public health emergency" in under 2 weeks from the first reported case.
Now share with us all, are you:
a) Spreading fake news on purpose
b) Gullible as fuck
c) Really bad
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Another ignorant post brought to you by BAReFO0t.