Coronavirus - International stories and thoughts

We need a good pandemic to cull the population......

 

Are possums eaten by rednecks? That’s something I haven’t witnessed.

I’ve had a few kitchen fires I investigated that involved possum being fried or baked in the oven. They are very greasy. All were being cooked by people of color, FYI.

 

It really seems like this virus is well handled with decent nursing care. Only the old and immunocompromised seem to be affected. Everyone is panicking but I dont know why.

 

Yeah the mortality rate seems low, and corona viruses don’t cause pandemics. It could mutate if course and it’s worth watching, but it’s just one more thing to draw eyeballs to whomever is out there yelling about it.

“If you’re asking yourself the same thing right now, you’ll be relieved to know it’s probably not pandemic bad. “The only agent that can do that, that we know of today, is influenza,” says Mike Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota. Coronaviruses just don’t have pandemic potential. At most, they can cause multiple, geographically localized outbreaks.”

Could China's New Coronavirus Become a Global Epidemic?

 

That may be correct but I doubt anyone is volunteering themselves or family members.

 

I lived in Hong Kong back in 2013. Traveled China and loved it. It’s my kids favorite memories.

I was there at the height of Avian Flu H7N9. Hong Kong screened us every time we came thru with a heat sensor for body temp. Citizens walked around with masks when they were sick or pregnant.

It wasn’t a big deal. Even in Beijing. Both my kids had swine flu a decade earlier traveling. I got a nasty stomach bug in El Salvador that I’ll put up against any named virus ever. Wanted to die a slow painful death as that would have improved my situation immensely.

I’m a gambler so don’t take my advice but I tend to believe these are usually overblown in risk percent until the zombies start walking.

 

China is great. One of my top two favorite countries I’ve visited. I plan to take my kids there too but I want them to be older first.

 

I get that but it's going to infect hundreds of people in the USA if it spreads and kill maybe 1 old or immunocompromised person. Everyone is overreacting.

 

My brother pat and his whole family, except for his daughter Stephanie the rest of the family is dead weight

 

My family members are still planning on going. Grand Junction son and wife and their 2 sons, 14 and 11, and my daughter from Austin and her 8 year old son. Sixteen year old G J grand daughter will be in France on a trip with her French language class and chaperones.

Eight year old came home from school yesterday, upset, telling his mother he now does not want to go. One of his classmates told him 3000 people had died in China and he would get sick, too, if he went.

I advised her to contact the teacher and have her speak to the class about passing on BS rumors - or making them up, whatever the case is here with this young BSing rumor monger. If he isn't corrected and stopped he will become one of those who irresponsibly repeat rumors on the 'Net. We all know who they are...

 

Trump should slap a tariff on this Chinese virus. Charge 'em for every American illness.

 

China Coronavirus: Wuhan 'nurse' claims bodies left unattended | Daily Mail Online





According to a version re-posted on Twitter, dead bodies covered in white sheets were seen being left to lie in a hospital corridor, crammed with medical workers and patients.

A woman, believed to be the blogger, can be heard saying from behind the camera: 'Three corpses, [they] have been lying here all morning. Some of them died in the wee hours. Nobody has come to deal with [them] yet.

'And doctors, nurses and patients, they all work in such an environment. This is what is going on in a designated hospital. Not a single person is here to manage.'

She went on to complain about the fact that even the executives of the hospital could not resolve the issue.

 

Some good epidemiologists might take issue with claims that it's overblown. The alarm about infectious disease breakout is in the nature of its ability to spread uncontrolled and possibly mutate, and even where not deadly for healthy older children and adults, viruses often can be for the elderly, very young children, and those with compromised immune systems.

I'm sure you know all this already and thus as a *gambler* it would seem you have a higher risk tolerance than others. For me, it depends. I'd easily go to China at any time except during any breakout, but I'd also probably wear a mask while there and obsessing a little over staying healthy.

 

I was just about to say that too

 

Approx 3% mortality rate, sounds like attributed to developing viral pneumonia.

 

My wife is Taiwanese and just translated it for me. It's a nurse from the afflicted area, whose husband possessed the virus for eight days. Basically claims that the news is not being accurately reported and that the clinics will not accept her husband for treatment. She is seeking help.