The Next Pandemic: SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19

[Deranged Rhino]

1 minute ago, BuffaloBill963 said:

Lol. Sheep gonna sheep. The fact you responded w a gif reveals everything about you. Go buy your mask and latex gloves! ???

 

 

 

That's an even better response than I hoped for. 

 

(Take a walk through the Deep State thread then reassess)

[Deranged Rhino]

 

[Rob's House]

2 minutes ago, Deranged Rhino said:

 

 

Obama would have developed a test that gives results in 7 hours.

[Deranged Rhino]

For the lighter side...

 

Won't anyone think of the monkeys?! 

 

 

[Koko78]

11 hours ago, Kevbeau said:

What’s this country come to when Tom Hanks’ kid can’t afford a shirt.

 

Listen, if you spent countless thousands of your father's dollars on those tattoos, you'd be showing them off at every opportunity as well.

[Deranged Rhino]

 

[TPS]

Posted on Facebook:

Newsweek interesting read
Young and unafraid of the pandemic? Good for you. Now stop killing people
March 11, 2020
I'm a doctor in a major hospital in Western Europe. Watching you Americans (and you, Brits) in these still-early days of the coronavirus pandemic is like watching a familiar horror movie, where the protagonists, yet again, split into pairs or decide to take a tour of a dark basement.
The real-life versions of this behavior are pretending this is just a flu; keeping schools open; following through with your holiday travel plans, and going into the office daily. This is what we did in Italy. We were so complacent that even when people with coronavirus symptoms started turning up, we wrote each off as a nasty case of the flu. We kept the economy going, pointed fingers at China and urged tourists to keep traveling. And the majority of us told ourselves and each other: this isn't so bad. We're young, we're fit, we'll be fine even if we catch it.
Fast-forward two months, and we are drowning. Statistically speaking—judging by the curve in China—we are not even at the peak yet, but our fatality rate is at over 6 percent, double the known global average.
Put aside statistics. Here is how it looks in practice. Most of my childhood friends are now doctors working in north Italy. In Milan, in Bergamo, in Padua, they are having to choose between intubating a 40-year-old with two kids, a 40-year old who is fit and healthy with no co-morbidities, and a 60-year-old with high blood pressure, because they don't have enough beds. In the hallway, meanwhile, there are another 15 people waiting who are already hardly breathing and need oxygen.
The army is trying to bring some of them to other regions with helicopters but it's not enough: the flow is just too much, too many people are getting sick at the same time.
We are still awaiting the peak of the epidemic in Europe: probably early April for Italy, mid-April for Germany and Switzerland, somewhere around that time for the UK. In the U.S., the infection has only just begun.
But until we're past the peak, the only solution is to impose social restrictions.
And if your government is hesitating, these restrictions are up to you. Stay put. Do not travel. Cancel that family reunion, the promotion party and the big night out. This really sucks, but these are special times. Don't take risks. Do not go to places where you are more than 20 people in the same room. It's not safe and it's not worth it.
But why the urgency, if most people survive?
Read more
Coronavirus Could Infect 'Many Millions' if U.S. Is Complacent, Expert Says
Here's why: Fatality is the wrong yardstick. Catching the virus can mess up your life in many, many more ways than just straight-up killing you. "We are all young"—okay. "Even if we get the bug, we will survive"—fantastic. How about needing four months of physical therapy before you even feel human again. Or getting scar tissue in your lungs and having your activity level restricted for the rest of your life. Not to mention having every chance of catching another bug in hospital, while you're being treated or waiting to get checked with an immune system distracted even by the false alarm of an ordinary flu. No travel for leisure or business is worth this risk.
Now, odds are, you might catch coronavirus and might not even get symptoms. Great. Good for you. Very bad for everyone else, from your own grandparents to the random older person who got on the subway train a stop or two after you got off. You're fine, you're barely even sneezing or coughing, but you're walking around and you kill a couple of old ladies without even knowing it. Is that fair? You tell me.
My personal as well as professional view: we all have a duty to stay put, except for very special reasons, like, you go to work because you work in healthcare, or you have to save a life and bring someone to hospital, or go out to shop for food so you can survive. But when we get to this stage of a pandemic, it's really important not to spread the bug. The only thing that helps is social restriction. Ideally, the government should issue that instruction and provide a financial fallback—compensate business owners, ease the financial load on everyone as much as possible and reduce the incentive of risking your life or the lives of others just to make ends meet. But if your government or company is slow on the uptake, don't be that person. Take responsibility. For all but essential movement, restrict yourself.
This is epidemiology 101. It really sucks. It is extreme—but luckily, we don't have pandemics of this violence every year. So sit it out. Stay put. Don't travel. It is absolutely not worth it.
It's the civic and moral duty of every person, everywhere, to take part in the global effort to reduce this threat to humanity. To postpone any movement or travel that are not vitally essential, and to spread the disease as little as possible. Have your fun in June, July and August when this—hopefully—is over. Stay safe. Good luck.
The author is a senior doctor in a major European hospital. She asked to remain anonymous because she has not been authorized to speak to the press.

[billsfan1959]

53 minutes ago, IDBillzFan said:

 

Much to the sadness of the American left.

Yep. Pretty sad when your political ambitions rest on the hopes for a rising death toll and a falling economy...

11 minutes ago, Deranged Rhino said:

For the lighter side...

 

Won't anyone think of the monkeys?! 

 

 

Monkeys' lives matter.....

[Deranged Rhino]

Just now, billsfan1959 said:

Yep. Pretty sad when your political ambitions rest on the hopes for a rising death toll and a falling economy...

 

But par for the course when you consider the past four years: 

 

* Putting all their marbles on Trump being a literal traitor working with Russia against the US (oops!)

* Betting on Trump being guilty of obstruction (into a crime that did not happen)

* Betting on Trump starting WW3 with Iran

* Hoping for a major recession

 

They have no ideas. Their goal isn't unity or national health. Their goal is power -- and will do or say anything to retake it. 

[Westside]

3 hours ago, GG said:

 

What are you talking about?  The 25% market drop is the reflection of the expected earnings hit that the planned sequestrations and quarantines will have on economic activity.   You can't have it both ways.  If you are going to implement severe travel and work restrictions to prevent contagion, the economy will take a massive beating.

That's what the left wants. The economy to tank, so they can win back the power they so greedily want. The left has always put power over the people. This is disgusting and evil. But after the last three years, I wouldn't expect anything different. 

[leh-nerd skin-erd]

29 minutes ago, BuffaloBill963 said:

Lol. Sheep gonna sheep. The fact you responded w a gif reveals everything about you. Go buy your mask and latex gloves! ???

Dude that's Denzel, the greatest American actor. True, in a separate thread I claimed it was Gene Hackman, but they are both damn good.  They are both the best, both better, just both better different. 

 

 

[North Buffalo]

1 hour ago, njbuff said:

How come every other entity in the world is pissed off at the rightful place (China) except the American left?

 

It’s nobody’s fault but China’s for the spreading of this virus, but you braindead leftists wanna blame Trump and his administration.

 

Its just like blaming Obama for the swine flu, which I don’t remember anyone doing and would be beyond stupid to blame Obama for it. Same thing for the Trump administration in this case.

 

Again, the blame for this belongs on China and China ALONE. 
 

If you wanna blame someone else, you seriously need to shut the fvck up.

Its not a blame deal, other than acting fast enough... China covered it up til too late, but viruses dont care about politics... they thrive on inaction and ignoring health science experts... and covering up info.  Both China and US have done the above.

[Buffalo_Gal]

 

[Tiberius]

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Brazilian official who met Trump on Saturday at Mar-a-Lago tests positive

Trump did look sick last night 

[BillsFanNC]

9 minutes ago, Buffalo_Gal said:

 

 

Of all the political BS with this pandemic, the calling it the Wuhan virus is racist theme is the most ridiculous.  Viruses are other bugs are designated by where they originated from all the time.  In influenza nomenclature, virus strains are always named according to their geographic origin. 

 

https://www.fda.gov/vaccines-blood-biologics/lot-release/influenza-vaccine-2019-2020-season

 

Quote

 

The committee recommended that the trivalent formulation influenza vaccines for the U.S. 2019-2020 influenza season contain the following:

• an A/Brisbane/02/2018 (H1N1)pdm09-like virus;
• an A/Kansas/14/2017 (H3N2)-like virus;
• a B/Colorado/06/2017-like virus (B/Victoria lineage).

The committee also recommended that quadrivalent influenza vaccines contain the above three strains and the following additional B strain:

• a B/Phuket/3073/2013-like virus (B/Yamagata lineage)

 

 

[Tiberius]

 

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RIO DE JANEIRO — A Brazilian official who met with President Trump and Vice President Pence on Saturday has tested positive for the coronavirus, according to Brazilian officials.

Fabio Wajngarten, communications secretary to Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, posed for a photograph with Trump and Pence at a state dinner at Mar-a-Lago in Florida before returning this week to Brazil, where he developed flu-like symptoms and underwent testing.

The potential exposure again brought the covid-19 illness within proximity of Trump, who has circulated among other people who later tested positive for the coronavirus.

 

 

[meazza]

1000 deaths in italy

[GG]

Can we call it the Chinese Biological Weapon virus?

[BuffaloBill963]

1 hour ago, Koko78 said:

 

Listen, if you spent countless thousands of your father's dollars on those tattoos, you'd be showing them off at every opportunity as well.

What’s most significant is that neither of you noticed what’s right in front of you w that video. It’s why we are in the position we are currently in. The average person is blind to the language of the elites and their puppets

[DC Tom]

57 minutes ago, Deranged Rhino said:

 

But par for the course when you consider the past four years: 

 

* Putting all their marbles on Trump being a literal traitor working with Russia against the US (oops!)

* Betting on Trump being guilty of obstruction (into a crime that did not happen)

* Betting on Trump starting WW3 with Iran

* Hoping for a major recession

 

They have no ideas. Their goal isn't unity or national health. Their goal is power -- and will do or say anything to retake it. 

 

The best part is hearing them complain "Trump is a dictator!" for three years, then in the space of a week do a complete 180 to "Trump isn't enough of a dictator!"