Scary virus outbreak in China
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Testing is pointless. This thing is transmissible enough that it’s going to run it’s course regardless of our best efforts.
Protect the elderly and otherwise compromised, and carry on. Yea, you’ll probably get sick, and maybe be out of action for a day or two, but life goes on.“Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.”
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Testing might keep it from becoming a pandemic before a vaccine can be developed, if it lets you isolate those infected so that they don't each infect multiple other people. So it is very much not pointless.George / NJ
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My company is coming up with plans to help Schools stay in session in a virtual environment. So hopefully we can keep the kids learning.Just a dude doing dude-ly things
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nooshinjohn no offense buddy but I'm so glad you're not in charge of decision making at the CDC
What I mean is you have to work on it from EVERY angle.....slowing it's progress..........working on a vaccine..........and exploring better treatments for the sick.George / NJ
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Deleted all the political posts. We all know how muddy politics can make things so please let's refrain from bringing them up in the slightest. If I have to continue taking posts down from this thread I am just going to close it
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I hope you mean partisan politics because there's no way you can exclude politics from something like this, where govt. agencies are making decisions. Look how fast Congress appropriated $8B + in funding when they found out the deathrate for 70+ yr olds with cardiovascular disease.George / NJ
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I am 70 with a minor heart issue. Send some of that $8B to me, and I won’t catch this virus. (I hope.). Lumin X1 file player, Westminster Labs interconnect cable
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Should benefit any business that makes home entertainment equipment. It already is negatively affecting airlines as people skip trips and stay home.Lumin X1 file player, Westminster Labs interconnect cable
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I have enough stock.
Most people just listen to music and watch movies. I EXPERIENCE them.
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I have been watching news feeds from Tokyo, Germany, France, and BBC because I am an international news dork. I hate to say it but this coupled with the markets riding high for a long time now....we are headed into a recession.
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I don't know why people here are buying every toilet paper role they can find, I really dont understand this...What are they doing? ....s#itting them selvesVR3 SDA SRS 1.2TL Duelund Monoliths+VR31000va Dreadnaught +VR3 MM2 SDA cable,
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Most of the work related travel plans have been cancelled. Virtually all overseas trips cancelled. On campus, visitors are screened before entry (questionnaire), if yes to any of the risk questions, they are denied entry.
Same holds true for all of our assembly plants globally.
Globally based employees (US citizens) are given the option to take a chartered flight back to the US, but must undergo quarantine procedures once they arrive.
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I dunno....does the virus cause people to have "the trots" as one reporter put it.I don't know why people here are buying every toilet paper role they can find, I really dont understand this...What are they doing? ....s#itting them selves
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I have been watching news feeds from Tokyo, Germany, France, and BBC because I am an international news dork. I hate to say it but this coupled with the markets riding high for a long time now....we are headed into a recession.
Sounds like people are starting to realize this is a different animal. The bad news is we are just getting started. At some point, new cases are going to explode, and just take off in every country. I agree we are entering a recession.Lumin X1 file player, Westminster Labs interconnect cable
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The sky is falling....the sky is falling...
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The sky is falling....the sky is falling...
Great. If it isn’t one thing then it’s something else.
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The sky is falling....the sky is falling...
Good. Maybe it will knock the stupid out of people.“Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.”
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Doubt it. Doom and gloom seems to be an additive drug 'round here.
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Isn't that how it always goes ? Ya cry wolf one too many times then when a real one shows up....your toast.
Don't get me wrong, there are legitimate steps that need to be taken, and we are doing them as best we can, but it's no global world ender. Zombies aren't going to rule the world. HT SYSTEM-
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We've totally dropped the ball on distributing test kits, and we have a lot of catching up to do to the rest of the world. Yay CDC !! Even South Korea kicked our butts.
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2020/03/06/the-us-has-the-worlds-highest-coronavirus-death-rate-at-more-than-5-a-number-that-reflects-the-countrys-lack-of-testing/23941708/
'Other countries are testing much more broadly than we are'
Because flawed tests and limited funding initially meant testing capacity in the U.S. was restricted, the CDC had tested only about 470 people in the US as of Sunday, according to the agency's official count. The CDC has since removed those testing numbers from its website, however. Alex Azar, the US secretary of health and human services, told ABC on Sunday that 3,600 Americans had been tested.
South Korea, by contrast, has implemented free coronavirus-testing drive-thrus and tested more than 136,000 people. The country's death rate is currently just 0.5% — 35 deaths out of a total of 6,088 reported infections. (It is constantly evolving, however, as patients' illnesses progress and as more people are diagnosed.)
"Other countries are testing much more broadly than we are," William Schaffner, an infectious-disease specialist at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, previously told Business Insider. "We are trotting along while they're racing along."George / NJ
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We have totally dropped the ball on distributing test kits and the CDC is largely to blame. We have a lot of catching up to do, to the rest of the world.
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2020/03/06/the-us-has-the-worlds-highest-coronavirus-death-rate-at-more-than-5-a-number-that-reflects-the-countrys-lack-of-testing/23941708/
'Other countries are testing much more broadly than we are'
Because flawed tests and limited funding initially meant testing capacity in the U.S. was restricted, the CDC had tested only about 470 people in the US as of Sunday, according to the agency's official count. The CDC has since removed those testing numbers from its website, however. Alex Azar, the US secretary of health and human services, told ABC on Sunday that 3,600 Americans had been tested.
South Korea, by contrast, has implemented free coronavirus-testing drive-thrus and tested more than 136,000 people. The country's death rate is currently just 0.5% — 35 deaths out of a total of 6,088 reported infections. (It is constantly evolving, however, as patients' illnesses progress and as more people are diagnosed.)
"Other countries are testing much more broadly than we are," William Schaffner, an infectious-disease specialist at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, previously told Business Insider. "We are trotting along while they're racing along."George / NJ
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Don't try to edit a post that you have JUST made. Vanilla will actually make the whole post go POOF. I've had this happen to me several times now.George / NJ
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Someone straighten me out on these test kits. What exactly are they ? As far as I can tell, the test is similar to the flu.....you take a swab of the throat or mucus and send it to a lab. What "kit" is needed for that ?
I don't think they have the lab personnel to do all these tests to be honest, along with all the other tests labs have to perform.HT SYSTEM-
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It's a PCR test. Polymerase Chain Reaction. It identifies strands of DNA unique to the particular virus.George / NJ
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Woooo. Feds are having a Corona virus sale and dropped rates. Goong to re-fi my 2n home. Auto loan rates also dropped.
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I got a really bad check cold and cough last week and the week before. Couldn't hardly sleep at night for all the coughing. Bad. Went on for a lot of days and just now mostly over it. Still a little bit in my lungs that works me over a bit in the mornings.
I was nervous about it due to the timing and afraid even though I hadn't been anywhere but work that it might somehow be Corona 19. Turned out to just be Bud Light 12. So I think I'm going to be ok...
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