China Corona Virus #2

[shooterdon]

Living rural has many advantages.

 

[Steppenwolfe]

:laughing: Maybe a few of us.

Not the first time you walked point, huh buddy?

 

[dragoneggs]

Just canceled my next business trip to Japan/Korea mid April. My company was also exhibiting at the huge JEC Composites show in Paris next week. This huge Exhibition was just postponed a couple plus months as well. About 50,000 people from over 100 countries attend this show... what a logistical nightmare!

 

[Jstpssng]

I don't know about you guys but I have the maturity level of a 16 year old.....

Are you the guy who is sueing to have his age reduced, because he doesn't "Identify as somebody of 69"? That could be the way to beat the statistics.

 

[Jstpssng]

IMO anyone that has traveled back into the US from any of the infected countries and has not reported it should be criminally charged and given mandatory jail time...!(if they survive the virus)...something like one month for every person they MAY have exposed to the virus.

Back in the Ebola scare our governor took a lot of heat because he felt that nurses returning from helping should be quarantined. In my mind, either he was right; or else the "Doctors without Borders" need to be a little more diligent about letting us know why that wasn't necessary.

 

[California]

The Flu pandemic of 1918/19 happened in three phases. The first phase was somewhat mild, the second phase is the one that killed 40+ million people, and the last phase was somewhat mild. Its estimated that 1/3 of the world's population at that time got infected: And this was before the age of the jet and casual tourism.

No jets in 1918 but there was even worse exposure in slow troop ships. Article: Infectious Diseases In World War 1. It says "About a quarter of the US population fell ill. Perhaps one-third of the world population were stricken. Recent studies now estimate 50 million flu deaths worldwide with a possible upper limit of 100 million".

I've been aware of the epidemic of 1918 ever since my grandmother explained that caused her hoarse voice.

Returning soldiers carried flu to the ends of the earth. Looking for a suitable photo like this, many I found were from New Zealand history archives.

 

[ovrszd]

Are you the guy who is sueing to have his age reduced, because he doesn't "Identify as somebody of 69"? That could be the way to beat the statistics.

Thats me.

 

[California]

Are you the guy who ... doesn't "Identify as somebody of 69"?

Thats me.

Found the prude! :laughing:

 

[Molalla1]

Not the first time you walked point, huh buddy?

Nope . . .

 

[SPYDERLK]

Back in the Ebola scare our governor took a lot of heat because he felt that nurses returning from helping should be quarantined. In my mind, either he was right; or else the "Doctors without Borders" need to be a little more diligent about letting us know why that wasn't necessary.

It wasnt necessary because Ebola can only be transmitted after significant fever develops and the course of the disease proceeds into the messy stage. Self monitoring for fever by a medical professional proved to be 100% effective to establish isolation conditions prior to transmissibility.