Corona Virus # 3

[shooterdon]

First, Moss Road, thank you for pruning the stuff that needed it. What a thankless task!

As to this virus, being prepared is how to minimize panic. I tend towards a prepper mindset...not the goof balls that made the TV show...just reasonable amounts of food, drugs, fuel, supplies in case of an event. I am way overboard on weapons and other such stuff but more due to concerns about changes in the political climate and its impact on gun ownership. Plus I love to shoot!!

Knowledge is power, and we know a few things about this virus but not everything. So caution is a good thing. Keeping thread like this open is valuable to share knowledge and opinions and a smart person will discern the difference.

My sons live near Detroit, so not a good place to be if this gets out of hand. A four hour drive if the SHTF, but I am not expecting this to be that kind of event. They are young and healthy and at little risk anyway. My mon is in her late 90's in an assisted living facility in Canada and I worry about her, but she cannot come into the US. I would get her here if it was possible.

BTW, did not know there was a political forum here. That would be a great place to put our misbehaving members into "quarantine", if that was possible, and keep these threads open for the rest.

 

[5030]

Like I said previously, some will live, some will die and most will recover. It's entirely up to God. I'm totally in his hands but I'm not gonna get at all paranoid about any of it. If my number is picked, so be it.

 

[MossRoad]

So now you want me to be a forum moderator? I love how you guys always skip past the inflammatory posts and single me out for responding. Twice in the past two weeks I have reported a member who's signature line is 100% political and is only meant to p*ss off other members. Guess what? It hasn't changed. So, when you decide to play by the rules you want me to play by I will be happy to help.

Contrary to popular belief, the moderators don't read most posts. We have no idea who's saying what until someone reports it. So yes, we'd like it if TBN members would report political posts in the public forums instead of replying to them.

 

[MossRoad]

So now you want me to be a forum moderator? I love how you guys always skip past the inflammatory posts and single me out for responding. Twice in the past two weeks I have reported a member who's signature line is 100% political and is only meant to p*ss off other members. Guess what? It hasn't changed. So, when you decide to play by the rules you want me to play by I will be happy to help.

I believe the one you reported back on February 16 was passed along to TBN management.

 

[Steppenwolfe]

Contrary to popular belief, the moderators don't read most posts. We have no idea who's saying what until someone reports it. So yes, we'd like it if TBN members would report political posts in the public forums instead of replying to them.

Fair enough.

 

[Steppenwolfe]

I believe the one you reported back on February 16 was passed along to TBN management.

Thanks.

 

[pennwalk]

Knowledge is power, and we know a few things about this virus but not everything. So caution is a good thing
You are right on the mark! One problem I'm having is that there is a lot of information out there but not all of it is good information. Hard for me to know what peoples agendas are.

Chris

 

[ruffdog]

So the virus is called SARS-CoV-19. I wonder if it came from bats as the first SARS? A guy on the radio said the first SARS showed symptoms quickly vs slowly for CoV-19. That makes this more dangerous as people will be infected by unknowing carriers.

Naming the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and the virus that causes it

 

[California]

So the virus is called SARS-CoV-19. I wonder if it came from bats as the first SARS? A guy on the radio said the first SARS showed symptoms quickly vs slowly for CoV-19. That makes this more dangerous as people will be infected by unknowing carriers.

PBS interviewed a biology scientist who actually went into bat caves in China and trapped bats to test for SARS. He said in his opinion, this Covid is transmitted similar to SARS: bats trapped -> 'wet market' -> sold as food for poor people who eat wild game. And in the market the bats are held, live, in awful sanitation stacked in cages above live Civet cats (also wild game) and live pigs, allowing cross contamination before the game meat is sold to the public, and pigs are slaughtered - without good sanitation - by commercial butchers or restaurants. He said research is testing this hypothesis, but he suspects the public butchers and restaurants are where Covid reached the public. He also noted China has shut down wet markets and sale of wild game for food.

A theory I think that may explain some things: people in Wuhan have lived under awful air pollution all their lives so as they age, they are very vulnerable to an illness that congests the lungs. Their death rate seems to have levelled off, possibly because with the economy there at a standstill the air is clean for the first time in peoples' lifetimes.

Here, it seems to be the elderly, perhaps also those with breathing difficulty, who are dying disproportionately. So we may not see a death rate anywhere near as serious as Wuhan because fewer here have had pollution or smoking stress comparable to Wuhan.


Pollution drops in Wuhan

 

[Molalla1]

Interesting CA . . . :thumbsup: thanks.