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Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by G8trGr8t, Jan 20, 2020.

  1. homer

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    Can I pick more than three?
     
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    Sounds like a lot of younger people showing these symptoms also.
     
  5. exiledgator

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    2% mortality isn't good, but it isn't bad either. The Spanish flu was 10-20% (estimated).
     
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  7. homer

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    I just bought 126 cans of beans, 455 cases of water, and extra ammo. Sealed off all my windows and doors.

    I’m ready for it.

    One problem I’ve incurred,,,,, the methane gas is becoming unbearable.
     
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  8. LouisvilleGator

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    Wow, for obvious reasons, this could be a pivotal development:

    7,000 people held on cruise ship after passenger develops suspected coronavirus symptoms

    7,000 people held on cruise ship after passenger develops suspected coronavirus symptoms

    About 6,000 passengers and 1,000 crew aboard Costa Cruises’ Costa Smeralda ship were being held in an Italian port after a passenger from Macau, China, came down with flu-like symptoms on Wednesday night amid the ongoing coronavirus outbreak.

    A Costa Cruises spokesperson confirmed to Fox News on Thursday that sanitary protocol has been activated after a 54-year-old woman fell ill aboard the Smeralda ship, which had sailed from Mallorca, Spain, to Civitavecchia on a weeklong Mediterranean cruise.
     
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    Heard some epidemiologist on the radio today say that they expect the virus to spread across the globe and peak sometime in April / May. They didn't site numbers of infected, just time frame. :eek:
     
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    It would be tens of millions of infected easily if that pans out.
     
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    yeah, cuz trade makes us so poor. Like you, I trade for 99% of the goods & services that I consume, but lets turn trade into a jobs program. If we're lucky, it will spread to Brazil so we can crank up our coffee industry.
     
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    Need to see a couple of suppliers in China and Korea, will probably hold off although I am guessing the flights are cheap right now.
     
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    We see how NAFTA worked out when you don't have decent worker protections. It allows the big crooked muti-nationals ETC. to screw over the US workers. Great for big business bottom line but not the US worker. The old NAFTA now being eliminated by Trump also had huge loopholes allowing China etc. to use Canada and Mexico to do crooked trade practices on the U.S.
     
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    You do realize that workers don't just get put into a box when their shift is over, right? They are consumers too. Under your "logic" we'd be better off if we banned shovels & required all digging be done by spoons. Hey, look how great that economy is, everyone has a job & has to work 80 hours a week. They must be really rich!!
     
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  18. demosthenes

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    We already have production delays because the government ordered factories shut down and some production material comes from quarantined areas. Also had our outside QA/QC consultant pull out of the country.
     
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    Excellent read on the subject for those interested. Not a "recent" publication
    but is quite topical given current events.


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    Just now:

    The husband of an Illinois woman with Wuhan coronavirus is now infected with the illness, and is the first confirmed case of person-to-person transmission of the virus in the United States, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced on Thursday.

    This virus is a monster, up to a week incubation period before symptoms manifest. A carrier could infect many, many people without knowing.

    Talk about typhoid Mary……… This will be a world wide pandemic before it's over. Scary stuff fellow Gators.
     
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