Ongoing coronavirus happenings

Captain of USS Theodore Roosevelt requests nearly 4,000 sailors be isolated as coronavirus spreads


Article includes facsimile of said letter.


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I just found out that a relative’s husband, a Marine stationed somewhere in Ca., has the virus. Word is that the situation is dire. Not just for him but, for many others stationed with him.

What a fucking shit show.

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“Florida Man” building open source ventilator out of home depot parts.

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I want to believe this but see no evidence outside of this tweet.

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You’d think that, of all organisations, the Pentagon would have biowar protocols that could be adapted, at short notice, to deal with a situation like this.

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I foresee a problem when some communities that have little or no cases, start trying to get their lives back on track and their economy churning again, start opening restaurants and loosening restrictions. People in nearby cities will flock to them and likely spread the problem. It occured to me when I realized I am in a county with a total of 4 cases (all recovered) and the county next to us had 1 recovered case so they opened the hotels and restaurants again. Unless they baracade outsiders like Wuhan neighborhoods did.

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Hey, China is eating bats again, it’s all cool.

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Defense Secretary Mark Esper says he’s leaving key decisions about how to address the outbreak to local commanders.

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Which hospital was closed 20 years ago and is still standing?

Commander: “Hey boys, I hear Mar-a-Largo is nice this time of year.”

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“If there aren’t enough NBC suits for everyone, nobody gets one!”

Reasoning checks out… :woman_facepalming:t3:

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NPR stations in the Northwest are not broadcasting them at all anymore

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i think the jury’s still out on that.

In the first scenario, as the new coronavirus evolved in its natural hosts, possibly bats or pangolins, its spike proteins mutated to bind to molecules similar in structure to the human ACE2 protein, thereby enabling it to infect human cells…

The second scenario is that the new coronavirus crossed from animals into humans before it became capable of causing human disease. Then, as a result of gradual evolutionary changes over years or perhaps decades, the virus eventually gained the ability to spread from human-to-human and cause serious, often life-threatening disease.

is anyone else worried that the administration has consistently underestimated things? an underestimate of 200k deaths would be… frightening… to say the least.

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Link won’t onebox. This is a report from the American Academy of Ophthalmology; it looks like conjunctivitis can be a symptom of COVID-19.

https://www.aao.org/headline/alert-important-coronavirus-context

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Trump: My hatred of Obama and anything he’s accomplished is more important than your health.

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