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My MIL is on a cruise and docks in PR tomorrow. Gonna be interesting!
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I once read a short story about a plague that spread by encouraging its victims to give blood…
edit: ah, here we are:
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SEE ALSO: “Damascus” by Daryl Gregory [full text]
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NOT “patent zero” yet, but important information (if correct).
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The UK Government wants people over 70 to isolate for months. But, how practical is this? What fraction of households contain a person over 70 and others under 70? Grandparents living with their children, that sort of thing?
Meanwhile in Italy there is apparently close to a ten-fold increase in deaths, as measured by the number of obituaries published in the newspaper
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What a nightmare it must be for those doctors in China, specially in this situation. Having to check with china’s represive bureacracy before they can warn everyone but being told to keep it secret!
Previous reports said that although doctors in the city collected samples from suspected cases in late December, they could not confirm their findings because they were bogged down by bureaucracy, such as having to get approval from the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, which could take days. They were also ordered not to disclose any information about the new disease to the public.
If this is what happens to someone who makes a joke about police in a private chat room, they are going to kill those doctors that leaked info when they find them.
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I guess they believe the pandemic could get much worse and disrupt the food supply causing lawlessness and rampant food and resource theft. Judging from people’s complete idiocy and lack of civility at markets for something as non mission critical as toilet paper, I can see where they get their ideas.
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Yeah, it could be worse. They could be going on Twitter to brag about going to Red Robin.
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Instead other countries want to isolate anyone and take the economy down, and all the economically vulnerable people with it. How practical is this in comparison?
It makes sense to put special precautions in place for those most at risk, because that would definitely help in flattening the most relevant part of the curve: those who require medical attention
I wish they would not have compared a Friday to a Sunday, because for whatever reason those days might have featured a substantially different number of obituaries anyway.
It’s probably pretty similar in the US, where the CDC has to check with the White House before making a public statement.
I wouldn’t be surprised that this situation (which appears to be similar over all US airports) will lead to more overall infections than the travel ban will be able to prevent. With this in mind, Americans might rather have stayed in a country where their health care costs would not ruin them.
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Well, that bodes well. Let’s pack these folks in like sardines and marinate them really well, then send them off to all corners of the world to spread their newly acquired guests. Yup, this is fine. Business as usual.
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It’s an irrational reaction. Partly it’s about hearing how others are buying up toilet paper so the stores are empty, leading to a panic that you will run out of toilet paper unless you go and grab some now. Partly it’s an unconscious attempt at gaining a little control back; sure, there’s a pandemic going on, and you can’t do much about it, but you can make sure you and your family have enough toilet paper, and that’s better than nothing.
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This is one way to get rich people to notice something bad is going on
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I think that’s mostly people flying into the US, otherwise they wouldn’t wait for their bags, and head for customs, right?
But maybe that’s a ploy for making America great again, by making sure only the strong survive?
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