Coronavirus - International stories and thoughts

This backs up the original (as I remember it) theory that this came from a "wet market".

 

Great, I hope more places start doing this. In the absence of easy access to testing, this is a good second best.

 

After this outbreak the world needs to come together and tell China to eradicate those markets and trading or face severe sanctions. There’s no reason for the world to suffer for Chinese exotic tastes - tastes that often result in killing of endangered animals.

 

From Chinese media co. Anyone thinking the Chinese govt cares about the west should wake up.

 

They haven't confirmed anything actually because of China. The same country that put chinese women in Europe with signs saying hug me I am not a virus knowing full well how this stuff spreads. Trump was smart to at least cut China flights off when he did unlike Western Europe.

 

Unfortunately he only cut off flights from China for people who weren't Americans, most of our first cases were Americans coming home from China. They didn't get tested or quarantined and infected others.

 

I work in an Amazon fulfillment center. We have the option of staying home but I have every intention of staying at work as long as we're in operation. The work we do is very important right now. Those of us choosing to work are on mandatory overtime because of the huge surge in demand. This is a fairly low risk population, about 30 miles SW of Chicago and very few people who have travelled abroad. We wear gloves all day and the work I do requires little close proximity to other people.

 

I’d hug that

 

And anyone thinking our president cares about our health and safety should w Stuff like wake up. Stuff like this is is why so many Asians are being subject to harassment in the US. Thank you for feeding into it. Didn't the president spread enough anti Chinese rhetoric?

We're going to be hosting a young woman from Tokyo throughout spring break. She's the daughter of my freshman year girlfriend at UF. I will be keeping her safe from the virus and xenophobic assholes.

 

Health Expert: 60% of UK Needs to Catch Coronavirus for 'Herd Immunity'

 

Be well North

 

I think his post was about Justin Trudeau's wife, not himself. But when his thread got merged into this one it lost it's context.

 

We don’t know if this was released in a lab and then made its way by carrier into the live animal. I have heard the lab theory from credible people. But, it doesn’t matter.

 

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Thanks, but the thread was merged from Ms. Treudeau thread.

I'm fine. Bloodwork scrong!!!

 

Except it can give you a false sense of security. You might infect dozens or hundreds of people during the 1-2 week incubation period before you develop a fever. One lawyer in New York infected 50 people, and most of them were likely infected before he showed any symptoms. Only the neighbor who took him to the hospital would likely have known that he had a serious problem.

 

It appears that some Labs are developing drive through testing. One drives up, does the test inside their car, places specimen in a sealed tube and hands it the the lab assistent (presumably wearing gloves and a mask). Not sure if this is already in place or in process.

 

We've been hosting a Chinese young lady (our adopted daughter) for almost nine years now. She got harassed on the elementary school bus ride home the other day because she was being blamed for Coronavirus. I wasn't there, so I don't know how ugly it got. We tried to explain it to her as best we could.

I do understand why people would be reluctant to hug anyone under these circumstances, especially a stranger and especially a Chinese stranger, in northern Italy. That's not being xenophobic. That's being practical. This girl is not unlike the Utah Jazz player touching everyone's cell phone to show how silly Coronavirus concerns are (and then being infected).

 

I get to everyday . . . but mine is Taiwanese.

 

Bat soup is a symptom of the problem, not a cause. Bat soup itself didn't directly cause Coronavirus, but the consumption of bat soup caused bats to be featured in wet markets, along with other animals that likely received the virus from bats, mutated it, and transferred it to humans. Bats are part of the chain, and without a demand for bats in food and "medicine", we probably would not have COVID-19.

Sadly, placing the blame on the U.S. allows China to continue to have wet markets in some form, and we will continue to have Coronaviruses in the future. China has outlawed the concept of wet markets for food consumption, but will continue to allow wild animal slaughter for medicinal purposes, since Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is considered a "treasure" of China. And, yes, many of the "medicines" require the animal to be cooked and eaten to receive the "benefit". Why does China do this? So they don't get in the middle of an argument over whether TCM should be banned or not. A lot of rural Chinese are very superstitious, and believe that in many cases, TCM is their only hope for survival. If you don't believe that rural Chinese are superstitious enough to do this, look up how some rural Chinese hold weddings for young people who die before they can get married in life. That one hit the news because a Chinese man with a head for business was providing deceased young women to be the brides for the dead young men (for a fee, of course), and it turned out that he was a serial killer preying upon housekeepers and other servants who would not be missed enough to look very hard for them.