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The Next Pandemic: SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19


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5 hours ago, billsfan1959 said:

 

C'mon, you can't fool us. We know your just switching over to pornhub for awhile before your parents come down to the basement to tell you to go out and mow the grass

Sorry dude, haven’t lived with my parents since I was 17 and that was a long, long time ago! Very innovative though! 

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2 hours ago, GG said:

 

You have to be consistent.  Your position has been all over the map, always trending to the negative, despite the evidence.

 

Social distancing on the ship only started once the disease was identified.   The ship sailed on January 20, the first infected patient disembarked on Jan 25, and by Feb 4 much of the ship was infected and that's when the quarantine set in.   Officials acknowledged that most infections took place before the quarantine.  If you look at that petri dish, it was ideal conditions based on demographics, ultra high density of the population, constant close interactions and a central HVAC system across the ship.

 

 

I should've linked to this response instead of repeated things.  Maybe you missed it...it's on that page at least

 

 

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Texas is following Rhode Island's lead and taking it to the next level.

 

DEVELOPING: Texas Governor Greg Abbott says anyone driving into Texas from Louisiana must self-quarantine for 14 days.

 

CBS AUSTIN - Gov. Greg Abbott on Sunday ratcheted up travel restrictions into Texas during the new coronavirus pandemic, while announcing the state's first pop-up hospital to deal with the crisis. He also said he was moving to "stop the release of dangerous felons" amid the outbreak.

 

Abbott said he was dramatically expanding a previous executive order that requires a 14-day self-quarantine for anyone flying into Texas from New York, New Jersey, Connecticut or New Orleans. Now, the state is also mandating a 14-day self-quarantine for anyone driving into Texas from anywhere in Louisiana and for those flying in from Miami, Atlanta, Detroit and Chicago, as well as anywhere in California and Washington.

 

In Texas, Abbott said the state's first ad hoc health care facility to respond to the pandemic will be the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas, an original hotspot for the outbreak at the state level. The convention center has the capacity for 250 beds "with plenty of room to massively expand that number if needed," Abbott said.

 

At the same time, Abbott said there is "plenty of hospital capacity" to deal with the outbreak statewide and existing hospitals remain the "primary location" for treatment.

 

Abbott's latest executive orders were not immediately available. It was unclear, for example, how he was defining the kinds of prisoners who cannot be released.

 

There are, as of Sunday, at least 2,552 coronavirus cases in Texas, including 34 deaths, according to the latest figures from Texas Department of State Health Services. Almost half of Texas’ 254 counties — 118 — are reporting cases.

 

There have been 25,483 tests done in the state, according to the DSHS numbers.

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The United States government sent nearly 17.8 tons of donated medical supplies to China—including masks and respirators—almost three weeks after the first case of the coronavirus was reported in the state of Washington

In a press release from the State Department dated Feb. 7, the agency announced it was prepared to spend up to $100 million to assist China as the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths continued to rise there. The day the press release went out, Trump tweeted that he spoke with China’s President Xi Jinping and that China would be “successful especially as the weather starts to warm & the virus hopefully becomes weaker and then gone.” 

 

  At the time, sending supplies overseas may have seemed like the right thing to do. But it’s worth noting that this release of vital medical supplies came two days after several senators, including Connecticut Democrat Chris Murphy, offered to allocate congressional emergency funding for preventative health measures and research to ward off the virus in the United States—and President Donald Trump turned it down. “Local health systems need supplies, training, screening staff, etc…” tweeted Murphy, “and they need it now.”

 

Trump would go on to deny that it posed a risk to Americans for weeks after that. 

How the tables have turned. As of Saturday afternoon, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports 103,321 cases of the coronavirus in the United States and 1,668 deaths, the highest number of confirmed cases worldwide. Hospitals across the country are now experiencing an unprecedented shortage of respirators and masks. Desperate nurses and doctors are taking to social media to show their need for protective equipment with the hashtag #GetMePPE, as they treat patients who are dying of the virus. 

On Wednesday, the Trump administration asked the international community for donations of equipment, including N-95 masks, gloves, respirators, and hand sanitizer. But even as his officials ask for foreign aid, Trump has a very different public message. As he boasted during Tuesday’s coronavirus briefing at the White House: “We should never be reliant on a foreign country for the means of our own survival.”

 

Just left the Administration briefing on Coronavirus. Bottom line: they aren't taking this seriously enough.

Notably, no request for ANY emergency funding, which is a big mistake. Local health systems need supplies, training, screening staff etc. And they need it now.

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5 minutes ago, Buffalo_Gal said:

Do these "reporters" go out of  their way to be #######s, or does it just come naturally?

CNN journo wastes time on the “appreciated” comments again...causing a 6 or 7 minute conversation about absolute bs.  Waste of time. Waste of energy. Precious time lost for the American people who might not give a sh$t if Nancy Pelosi appreciates anyone or not. 

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2 hours ago, Q-baby! said:

Sorry dude, haven’t lived with my parents since I was 17 and that was a long, long time ago! Very innovative though! 

 

I take it manners and social graces were taught in your house in the 18th year. 

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Who’s the blonde plant asking the questions about media? 

2 minutes ago, Chef Jim said:

 

I take it manners and social graces were taught in your house in the 18th year. 

Plenty of manners and social graces when dealing with decent people. 

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  Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin on Sunday said that he expects Americans to be able to survive for two and a half months on just $1,200, which is about $17 per day.

In an interview on CBS’s Face the Nation, host Margaret Brennan noted that the $1,200 relief checks that many Americans will be getting would not be enough in some parts of the country.

“I think the entire package provides economic relief overall for about 10 weeks,” Mnuchin explained. “Hopefully we will kill this virus quicker and we won’t need it, but we have liquidity to put into the American economy to support American workers and American business.”

 

If it's socialism to help American workers, what do you call it when you give another 500 billion dollars to corporations?

 A lot of these same corporations have spent up to 90% of their cash buying back stock the last few years and now have their hands out again for more taxpayer money.

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This is why I can't stand the MSM.

 

They went out of their way to kiss Obama's azz and they are going out of their way to try and destroy Trump, even in a fvcking crisis like this.

 

Shameful to the utmost degree.

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11 minutes ago, Deranged Rhino said:

 

 

Most Americans realize there is gotcha time and not gotcha time.

This is not gotcha time. This is all hands on deck for a common cause time. Winning for America. Socialists dont get that.

1 minute ago, njbuff said:

This is why I can't stand the MSM.

 

They went out of their way to kiss Obama's azz and they are going out of their way to try and destroy Trump, even in a fvcking crisis like this.

 

Shameful to the utmost degree.

This too. 

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