So anyway, about this coronavirus thing...

Is this worst that the zika virus was?

 

Worst virus ever...I was 6 days away from Curacao when we found out the lady was pregnant with our first. Flushed the entire cost of the trip down the toilet and then went and sulked in SanDiego/La Jolla.

 

Yea I may have to reconsider my 2 plus week trip to Suzhou, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, and Nanning in February. Three EMS visits right after everyone has traveled all over China to visited their home town. Great plan!

 

oh snap. i mean i love china every now and then... but the last two times i was there, i was sick as a dog. it sucked big time.

 

Probably because Zika mostly affected just pregnant women and I think the elderly with compromised immune systems. For regular healthy adults I don't think it was an issue. This new crap seems to be more like SARS. I think worldwide SARS was responsible for just under 800 deaths. So far I think they said about 30 people have died from this latest outbreak.

Watched a couple more news reports and they tracked a cases in Japan and Australia now. Hopefully it hasn't gone any further, but they said lots of Chinese folks travel for the Lunar New Year, but I think China has locked down Wuhan and put a ban on travel.

They said the first case likely came from eating some weird animal someone shouldn't have been eating.




EDIT:

oh lovely......I guess that was just a matter of time

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/2nd-coronavirus-case-confirmed-u-s-cdc-reports-n1121911

 

Whoo hoo, who is ready for fresh bat soup? For the main entree, we are serving Kung Pao Bat, hope you are not allergic to peanuts.

 

I love the fear mongering.

Some assclown hypothesized that a pandemic would kill 65 million people, and now everyone’s freaked the fuck out.

Meanwhile, I’ll just bring my towel and chant “42”...

 

I'm impressed with a government that won't let your kid go to
school without vaccinations but there is zero control over people
flying in from China who could be carrying this illness.

Don't get too cocky over the fact that nothing has gotten out of control
yet, let one of these lesser-known diseases take off in a major population
center and it will be a big problem. Complacency isn't a good plan.

 

You mean 12 Monkeys wasn't a premonition someone had about the future?

 

Meh... the dillweeds at the hospital here in Dallas that treated one of the ebola cases (the dude died from it) literally went out of their way to TRY TO start a pandemic... there was no quaratine; they left dirty towels & sheets from the room in the hallway with people passing by, tracking shit everywhere; I can't even remember all the common sense protocols they broke.

And yet somehow we're all still alive.

 

This dude is way out ahead of it!

 

It's a mean one...

 

I wonder what the truth is. The numbers infected just seem like BS. I read an article they were repurposing 28 hospitals. Yet only a 1000 or so people infected..... seems to not match.

 

Really want to be aloof about this thing, but the epidemiology of this is starting to become a bit concerning.

 

There's some disturbing reports coming out, putting the number closer to 100,000. Reports of the virus now mutating further, videos of people coughing up blood, videos of bodies laying in hospital hallways, hospitals completely shutdown, reports of young and healthy people passing away from it, Chinese military building multiple emergency hospitals, Chinese doctors begging for help, China announcing a Centralized response, all but two provinces of China have cases now, America and France announcing emergency evacuations, Chinese Embassy chasing down people who escaped the quarantine in France, President Xi even acknowledging that the situation is grave.

 

I wouldn't believe anything the Chinese gov't says to start with.

 

and Poof, nobody is talking about Hong Kong anymore.

agreed, the Chinese lie

 

...until we hear China announce a humanitarian trip to Taiwan and Hong Kong to provide relief during the epidemic.