Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

Novel coronavirus 'is probably with us beyond this season, beyond this year,' CDC director says - CNN

 

Economic effects are already being felt in the US.

https://www.snewsnet.com/news/coronavirus

 

Corona Virus will be the story of the year, even in an election year.

‪https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/20/fbi...-masks-in-case-of-a-coronavirus-pandemic-in-‬

 

Got to love the morons at the State Department who put the Americans flying back from the infected cruise ship on the plane. CDC advised separate flights for the infected and those who were negative so far. Nope, State overruled them and put twelve infected on the same plane with all the rest. CDC went so far as to take their name off of the flight.

I can't imagine being a CDC guy on the scene and having to watch that.

 

It’s that kind of malfeasance that’s going to get Americans killed when COVID-19 gets a foothold here.

 

That and the standard American "You can't tell me what to do". There are a lot of Chinese under quarantine who are monitored for staying at home by their cell phone location. You think that works here, or do 20% of them leave their phones at home while they run to the grocery store when they need a few things?

 

Shit’s hitting the economic fan tomorrow worldwide and I bet it stays that way for months.

One pandemic expert I just read predicts within six months most office work in America will be by telecommute.

The lack of preparation is mind-boggling.

WE have never seen anything like this in more than a century.

 

Speaking of prepping or not prepping, here's a "Don't want you to panic, but this is how I'm prepping" tweet thread. That "One-page beginner's guide" is well worth a look. Note that it includes latest hard news updated daily.

Talk about depressing, such notes from last Friday:


Key developments from Friday, February 21, 2020:

• [10:36 pm] Remember in yesterday’s update how the China’s state-run Global Times reported that half the beds in one of the two hastily constructed hospitals in Wuhan are empty? Well, today that same outlet is saying they’ll build 19 more hospitals in Wuhan. This makes no sense. No idea what’s going on, there, but if anyone has thoughts please leave the in the comments.
• [10:36 pm] The faulty test kit problem strikes again: No one in Hawaii has been tested for coronavirus as health officials wait for kits from CDC
• [10:34 pm] U.S. prepares for coronavirus pandemic, school and business closures: health officials
• [10:33 pm] MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis: “Two thirds of cases exported from mainland China are undetected”. Here’s the full report.
• Get more summaries of the latest developments, here.

 

Lipsitch is far from alone in his belief that this virus will continue to spread widely. The emerging consensus among epidemiologists is that the most likely outcome of this outbreak is a new seasonal disease—a fifth “endemic” coronavirus. With the other four, people are not known to develop long-lasting immunity. If this one follows suit, and if the disease continues to be as severe as it is now, “cold and flu season” could become “cold and flu and COVID-19 season.”

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