Coronavirus, comprehensive and updates discussion

[musiclady]

Extended Spring Break!

 

Exactly!

And in the meantime, not a teensy weensy bit of educating going on.   

[Smokin Joe]

Exactly!

And in the meantime, not a teensy weensy bit of educating going on.   

Oh, there will be some getting an education, just no schooling.

[Gefn]

Breaking- NY to deploy National Guard troops to New Rochelle, now the “most significant cluster in the country” Cuomo says, tri state COVID-19 cases surpass 185

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/

[musiclady]

Oh, there will be some getting an education, just no schooling.

 

[thackney]

Breaking- NY to deploy National Guard troops to New Rochelle, now the “most significant cluster in the country” Cuomo says, tri state COVID-19 cases surpass 185

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/

So it is Gov. Andrew Cuomo instead of President Trump declaring Marshall Law?  < /sarc>

[Hoodat]

Latest stats from https://www.foxnews.com/health/coronavirus-us-state-by-state-breakdown


As of Tuesday morning, the novel coronavirus has infected at least 113,672 people across 103 countries, resulting in over 4,000 deaths. In the U.S., at least 36 states plus the District of Columbia have reported confirmed cases of COVID-19, tallying almost 650 illnesses and at least 26 deaths.

Another important statistic needed here is the age demographics of the 650 reported infected.  If people aged 40 and over make up a disproportionate number of reported cases, then the fatality rate is grossly exaggerated.

[Gefn]

“We don’t need no education”

[Formerly Once-Ler]

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1237340894610759680

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
Wow!
@foxandfriends  blew away the competition of Morning Joke (which did very poorly) on MSDNC (Another Comcast sleaze production), and
@CNN ’s New Day, in the Morning Television Ratings. A total blowout, but that’s what you get when you treat “Trump” fairly!
6:33 AM · Mar 10, 2020

Great information to know as US cases top 700. *cough* *cough*

[Cyber Liberty]

Breaking- NY to deploy National Guard troops to New Rochelle, now the “most significant cluster in the country” Cuomo says, tri state COVID-19 cases surpass 185

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/

Rob Petrie is saddened....

[240B]

My guess is it wasn't specifically a bio weapon. Just a lab experimenting with various viruses to see what happens when combined and to try different techniques at combining them. And it leaked out by accident.

This idea has been pushed for every epidemic since the 20th century. If true, then bioengineers must be the most careless, bumbling, incompetent people in the world.

Chikungunya
Cholera
Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever
Ebola virus disease
Hendra virus infection
Influenza (pandemic, seasonal, zoonotic)
Lassa fever
Marburg virus disease
Meningitis
MERS-CoV
Monkeypox
Nipah virus infection
Plague
Rift Valley fever
SARS
Smallpox
Tularaemia
Yellow fever
Zika virus disease

Novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV)

[240B]

Breaking- NY to deploy National Guard troops to New Rochelle, now the “most significant cluster in the country” Cuomo says, tri state COVID-19 cases surpass 185

What do they expect the National Guard is going to do? Except to get more people infected?
This reminds me very much of all the talk about sending American troops to Africa to "fight Ebola". Really? Are people that stupid?
There is only one way an army can fight an epidemic. And that draconian plan is something America would never do.

[Gefn]

What do they expect the National Guard is going to do? Except to get more people infected?
This reminds me very much of all the talk about sending American troops to Africa to "fight Ebola". Really? Are people that stupid?
There is only one way an army can fight an epidemic. And that draconian plan is something America would never do.

I just went half a mile to my local grocery store. I noticed I was out of milk when I wanted to make a cup of coffee for lunch. Lot of food on the shelf, lot of toilet paper, lots of cans. Then I got home and saw my state just had it’s first death. A 69 year old man.
The two school districts near me, the one I’m in and another close one, closed today for some type of heavy cleaning. Anyway, the people at the supermarket and the customers don’t seem worried but they are buying wine like it’s the end of the world. I guess, if it’s the end of the world you wanna feel fine,

[Cyber Liberty]

I just went half a mile to my local grocery store. I noticed I was out of milk when I wanted to make a cup of coffee for lunch. Lot of food on the shelf, lot of toilet paper, lots of cans. Then I got home and saw my state just had it’s first death. A 69 year old man.
The two school districts near me, the one I’m in and another close one, closed today for some type of heavy cleaning. Anyway, the people at the supermarket and the customers don’t seem worried but they are buying wine like it’s the end of the world. I guess, if it’s the end of the world you wanna feel fine,

Wine has a better shelf-life.  Well, the Red anyway....

[Gefn]

Wine has a better shelf-life.  Well, the Red anyway....

Actually I don’t drink. I would rather have my calories in cookies. And donuts

[musiclady]

Just wanna say that the nearby branch of OSU where I taught before I retired has also closed.

Because of the nature of my music class, being cancelled through the end of March would destroy the class.  It could not be taught online.

They’re going to have to change the grading to pass/fail in classes like mine, because there will be no legitimate grading.

And all for what?? A crisis that hasn’t happened....

[Hoodat]

Actually I don’t drink. I would rather have my calories in cookies. And donuts

Don't forget ice cream.

[Cyber Liberty]

Actually I don’t drink. I would rather have my calories in cookies. And donuts

It's all good, as long as we're partying to the sounds of R.E.M.

[Cyber Liberty]

Don't forget ice cream.

@Hoodat I'm glad I swiped your elephant GIF Avatar and posted it on my Bookface....

[240B]

Imagine all the millions of people who get severe annual Spring allergies?
These guys are going to get fired, arrested, and put in isolation.
Red eyes, runny nose, constant sneezing, coughing, A WITCH!!! BURN THEM!!

[corbe]

Rockin' Pneumonia and Boogie Woogie Flu ~ Johnny Rivers


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[Hoodat]

Does anyone here have any recollections or accounts of polio quarantines during the 40s or 50s?  During those epidemics, children were essentially quarantined in their own house or yard.  But this typically happened during summer months, so it was not an issue of closing schools.

Polio had a fatality rate of around 6% for reported cases, but with infants, it was unlikely that an infection would be recognized as polio.

[Hoodat]

Rockin' Pneumonia and Boogie Woogie Flu ~ Johnny Rivers

Nice.

[Cyber Liberty]

Does anyone here have any recollections or accounts of polio quarantines during the 40s or 50s?  During those epidemics, children were essentially quarantined in their own house or yard.  But this typically happened during summer months, so it was not an issue of closing schools.

Polio had a fatality rate of around 6% for reported cases, but with infants, it was unlikely that an infection would be recognized as polio.

Who Polio doesn't kill, it cripples.  My Maternal GF was an example.

[Cyber Liberty]

Rockin' Pneumonia and Boogie Woogie Flu ~ Johnny Rivers


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I cannot believe it took you over 1,000 posts to put that up...

[catfish1957]

Breaking- NY to deploy National Guard troops to New Rochelle, now the “most significant cluster in the country” Cuomo says, tri state COVID-19 cases surpass 185

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/

For a disease that kills <.2% of the population under 60? 



Since we've tended toward a rock and roll theme.

[Smokin Joe]

Does anyone here have any recollections or accounts of polio quarantines during the 40s or 50s?  During those epidemics, children were essentially quarantined in their own house or yard.  But this typically happened during summer months, so it was not an issue of closing schools.

Polio had a fatality rate of around 6% for reported cases, but with infants, it was unlikely that an infection would be recognized as polio.

Yep. I remember standing in the line to get the vaccine (I was just a kid, and it was a big thing).

I also went to school with a couple of guys who didn't get the vaccine in time.

[Hoodat]

@Hoodat I'm glad I swiped your elephant GIF Avatar and posted it on my Bookface....

Had to take it down.  @Sighlass didn't like it.

[corbe]

Had to take it down.  @Sighlass didn't like it.

   What's up with that @Hoodat Arne said my Avatar freaked him out but it appears that problem resolved itself.   

[Hoodat]

20,000 influenza deaths in US in last 5 months.  Call out the National Guard!

https://www.ibtimes.com/coronavirus-vs-flu-20000-people-died-influenza-season-us-2936439

[Polly Ticks]

Actually I don’t drink. I would rather have my calories in cookies. And donuts

Speaking of donuts, it's probably a good idea for @Cyber Liberty  to put a sneeze guard over the donuts in the Lounge.

[240B]

Yep. I remember standing in the line to get the vaccine (I was just a kid, and it was a big thing).

I also went to school with a couple of guys who didn't get the vaccine in time.

Isn't that the shot with a dozen needles that left a hole in people's arm?
I heard that was intentional, so they could know who did and who did not get the shot.

[corbe]

[Cyber Liberty]

Speaking of donuts, it's probably a good idea for @Cyber Liberty  to put a sneeze guard over the donuts in the Lounge.

It may not be good enough.  Restaurants are closing their salad bars with sneeze guards.  I will never cave to the mob and stop bringing coffee and donuts to the Lounge!

[Hoodat]

Isn't that the shot with a dozen needles that left a hole in people's arm?
I heard that was intentional, so they could know who did and who did not get the shot.

I think that was TB.

[corbe]

         Cheaper than Toilet Paper

[Smokin Joe]

Isn't that the shot with a dozen needles that left a hole in people's arm?
I heard that was intentional, so they could know who did and who did not get the shot.

Nope. The Polio vaccine we got was a sugar cube with red stuff in it.

The multi needle bit was an antigen test for TB, a reaction meant you had been exposed, whether the infection is active or latent.

[Cyber Liberty]

Had to take it down.  @Sighlass didn't like it.

In that spirit....

[Cyber Liberty]

Isn't that the shot with a dozen needles that left a hole in people's arm?
I heard that was intentional, so they could know who did and who did not get the shot.

I think that was the Small Pox vaccine.

[LadyLiberty]

Imagine all the millions of people who get severe annual Spring allergies?
These guys are going to get fired, arrested, and put in isolation.
Red eyes, runny nose, constant sneezing, coughing, A WITCH!!! BURN THEM!!

Reminds me of a tweet I read that conjured up the story line for a new Seinfeld episode if it aired today:

Jerry is annoyed at his girlfriend because she washes her hands only long enough to get through the Kit Kat bar song once.

George accuses a coworker with allergies on having corona cough.

Elaine can't break up with her boyfriend because he is in quarantine.

Kramer goes into business making hand sanitizer in his bathtub.

[Polly Ticks]

Isn't that the shot with a dozen needles that left a hole in people's arm?
I heard that was intentional, so they could know who did and who did not get the shot.

Maybe you're thinking of smallpox?

[240B]

Maybe you're thinking of smallpox?

Yep. That's the one. Both of my parents had that scar. It was like a pass card for certain places, especially the military.

[Hoodat]

In that spirit....

I wonder how hard it was to train the elephant to do that.

[TomSea]

la #COVID19 es un arma biológica que accidentalmente "escapó" de un laboratorio militar en #Wuhan según este canal surcoreano, ArirangTV ..
Translated from Spanish by (google)

 the #COVID19 it is a biological weapon that accidentally "escaped" from a military laboratory in #Wuhan according to this South Korean channel, ArirangTV ..

See video: 

https://twitter.com/ELZORROBOLIVAR/status/1236654989382234112

So, now, someone says this, whomever this ArirangVT is, South Korea but the video report is in English.

It still says, they need more proof.

[corbe]

   Coming to a Toilet Paper Isle near you (Language Warning)

https://twitter.com/adellabeaini/status/1236090659922046976

[240B]

So, now, someone says this, whomever this ArirangVT is, South Korea but the video report is in English.

It still says, they need more proof.

It does make sense ina macabre hitleresque kind of way. China is one of the most over populated countries in the world.
If they wanted to reduce the overall population, who would they select? The old and the weak. Who does covid-19 affect?
The old and the weak.

[240B]

Coming to a Toilet Paper Isle near you (Language Warning)

https://twitter.com/adellabeaini/status/1236090659922046976

Of course. At this point everyone knows that toilet paper prevents Coronavirus.
It's been proven. Even the CDC has said this.

[Polly Ticks]

Got an email from my allergy/asthma doctor's office today:

If you have an appointment but have or have had a fever, please call to reschedule or, if you are due an allergy shot, please postpone your shot. Due to the greater risk to our respiratory disease patients, we ask that patients are fever free for two weeks before entering our waiting rooms.

That seems a rather sensible precaution.

[catfish1957]

Got an email from my allergy/asthma doctor's office today:

That seems a rather sensible precaution.

Sensible and Common Sense in general seems to have left the scene in this country.

[Smokin Joe]

I wonder how hard it was to train the elephant to do that.

What is the trampoline deck made out of? That's what I want to know.

[Hoodat]

What is the trampoline deck made out of? That's what I want to know.

Rearden Steel, obviously.