Coronavirus

[High_Plains_Drifter]

Only one case in WI so far... but that's so far as we know. I don't think anyone is saying if we can test everyone or not yet.

But I'm glad I live in a tiny little town. I don't have to be around any "clusters" of larger than 2 or 3 people if I don't want to.

There is an auction tomorrow in the town north of me tomorrow at the community center, and I'd love to go, and I think I might. I think I could probably survive the virus even if I did catch it. I think I'm pretty strong and healthy.

[High_Plains_Drifter]

Oh boy... here we go...

-----------------

Ammo stockpiling now underway as coronavirus spreads across America and uncertainty grows about how to stop it



https://www.naturalnews.com/2020-03-...certainty.html

[jimnyc]

Hopefully, the idiots in Iran have stopped licking public objects, but far be it from me to interfere with traditional muslim passtimes.

Let them continue. Many of them did so proclaiming that their faith would protect them. Allah akbar!! And when many more get sick, they should run out and visit those folks and lick things in their home, REALLY prove to me that their faith will protect them from this virus.

As soon as we get the first case(s) up here in Alaska, I think I'm going to pull the plug and head up to the cabin with the family and any friends that want to tag along. This was one of the functions in mind during planning and construction. A vacation sounds pretty good.

But first to retrieve the wifey unit.

Gotta set some ground rules!!

Anyone coming after you, they get quarantined in the new, and cold cabin. Let them sit for 2 weeks or so for the incubation period, then they can join in. Not for me though. I get direct access. I want that warm bed in the back and I'll sleep and live in a huge enclosed ziploc bag if I have to!!

[jimnyc]

NY is talking about 'not ruling out shutting down the subway system'.

Yikes, that would be insane, and makes me happy I no longer work in the city. Well, I worked about 15 block from Grand Central and would often walk both ways already. But I had another job where #1 it was much more than that without the assist of the subway system and #2 that job required traveling to offsite jobs, like 7-10 per day. Fairly easy with the subway around, but next to impossible without.

--

Officials not ruling out shutting down mass transit in wake of coronavirus

NEW YORK - Despite the spread of coronavirus, state and local officials are not shutting down mass transit in the city and state, at least not yet. An estimated 4.3 million people ride the New York City subway system a day.

MTA Interim Chairperson Sarah Feinberg told FOX 5 NY morning program 'Good Day New York' and echoed statements from NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio a day earlier, that they are not ruling out the possibility.

"This is a dynamic situation," said Feinberg. "Moment by moment; hour by hour. We will follow the guidance we are given by medical experts."

Rest - https://www.fox5ny.com/news/official...of-coronavirus

[jimnyc]

The scum rises to the top.

People are stealing things from medial offices and hospitals, directly from the places that need them the most. And not thieves off the streets, folks that work there, and doctors too.

And then perhaps worse, the people who offer absolutely nothing. The others will likely sell their inventory, and at least people get them, even if ripped off a little. But then you have folks trying to collect money to help people, or selling things that don't even have, fake websites with $$$$$$$$ in sales, but all a ripoff. They are on Amazon and Ebay. But they ARE slowly closing them down when they see them.

Then you have every day idiots, maybe not the scum, but still overreacting and even fist fighting over stupid supplies.

--

Criminals Cash In on Coronavirus

Hospitals from Italy to Japan have reported disappearing inventories of newly precious masks and hand sanitizer

As coronavirus sparks a global run on medical supplies, criminals are moving in.

Hospitals from Italy to Japan have reported disappearing inventories of newly precious masks and hand sanitizer. Authorities in Ukraine, Taiwan and elsewhere have broken up efforts to smuggle such goods across borders. Authorities in the U.S. and elsewhere also report frauds in which people are tricked into buying nonexistent medical supplies or providing financial information to criminals posing as health workers.

With the number of confirmed coronavirus cases globally having climbed above 110,000—as infections outside China continue to mount—supplies of masks are tight, and makers are struggling to keep up with demand. Battling those challenges, medical staff are also now contending with thieves.

“These are episodes of looting…at a time when these health devices are so important,” said Marco Damonte Prioli, director of a hospital in the Liguria region of Italy—the country suffering the worst epidemic in terms of deaths outside China—that reported about 210 masks and 12 bottles of disinfectant missing.

A hospital in Marseille, France, reported almost 2,000 surgical masks taken from the central operating room, and a hospital in Malaga, Spain, said a trauma doctor was caught removing 12 boxes of high-filtration masks from a storeroom. Japanese Red Cross Kobe Hospital reported the disappearance of four 1,500-mask boxes last month.

Also last month, the Taiwanese coast guard seized more than 70,000 surgical masks from a fishing boat about to sail them out of the country. Last week, Ukrainian military personnel, acting on a tip, found five plastic bags holding 3,650 masks at the Romanian border, according to the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine. The alleged smugglers escaped on a motorcycle, the services’s website said.

Criminals are cashing in even when they don’t have the supplies. Britain’s National Fraud Intelligence Bureau, a division of the police, said one person paid £15,000 ($19,570), for masks that never arrived.

“Scammers are taking advantage of fears surrounding the coronavirus,” Colleen Tressler, a consumer education specialist for the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said on its website.

The FTC said criminals set up websites to sell fake products,and use emails, texts, and social-media posts to tout cures and treatments, or solicit donations for victims. They often pretend to be from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or the Switzerland-based World Health Organization, according to the FTC. The WHO said criminals posing as its officials use emails, phone calls and text messages to steal financial information or install malware on computers.

Italy’s Civil Protection Department warned against door-to-door swindlers pretending to be health-care professionals as a way to scam old people out of their money or get into their homes—sometimes by offering to “sanitize the environment” or to provide free coronavirus tests.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has also warned investors of coronavirus-linked “pump and dump” stock schemes. Online promotions falsely claim that the products of a small listed company can stop coronavirus, sending the shares higher and allowing the swindler to sell at an inflated price.

Shortages have even triggered violence. In Australia, police have been called to stores a number times to break up fights among people panic-buying toilet paper.

On his way to work one day near Tokyo, Manabu Fujita saw people wrestling on the ground outside a drugstore where a line had formed for the remaining stock of surgical masks.

“I was shocked,” he said. “I never would have thought that the struggle for masks would lead fights to break out in Japan.”

Rest - https://www.wsj.com/articles/crimina...us-11583739994


And then you have those that are a SPECIAL kind of SCUM. I have seen no less than 20 videos of different people in China spitting on elevator buttons and other places, and one guy even just spitting on the girl walking in front of him. And this isn't the first time/video of someone coughing in others faces to potentially spread the virus. Hell, I saw one guy purposely doing so in a video to the people who came to check on him while he was under quarantine.

Cabin crew tackle woman who ‘sparked coronavirus panic by coughing on staff deliberately to get them to let her off jet’

SHOCKING footage shows cabin crew tackling an airline passenger who deliberately coughed on staff, it is claimed.

The dramatic unverified video was allegedly filmed on board a Thai Airways flight in Shanghai on Friday.

The clip was shared online by YouTube user Fugu M, who claimed the plane had landed at the city’s Pudong International Airport but was left waiting seven hours for a gate as a result of tighter coronavirus screening.

Tensions on board boiled over when a female passenger started deliberately coughing on staff to get them to open the doors and let her off, according to Fugu M.

They wrote: “One Chinese woman went stir crazy on a Thai Airways flight and deliberately coughed on a female flight attendant to try to pressure staff to open the doors and let her out.

“Senior male flight attendant was having none of it, warned her, then a scuffle ensued.

“He was going to put her in cuffs, but eventually chose not to.”

Rest - https://www.the-sun.com/news/507275/...t-her-off-jet/

[Kathianne]

Dow has 35 min to come back some, about 10 min ago was down 7+%

[High_Plains_Drifter]

If people are already willing to fight over a SURGICAL MASK, think of what sort of things they'll be willing to do when FOOD becomes in short supply.

Really starting to wonder how much worse this will get before it gets better, and at the same time really glad I've been a prepper for years.

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

Only one case in WI so far... but that's so far as we know. I don't think anyone is saying if we can test everyone or not yet.

But I'm glad I live in a tiny little town. I don't have to be around any "clusters" of larger than 2 or 3 people if I don't want to.

There is an auction tomorrow in the town north of me tomorrow at the community center, and I'd love to go, and I think I might. I think I could probably survive the virus even if I did catch it. I think I'm pretty strong and healthy.

Far too much hysteria being ginned up by the usual suspects. Myself, I am not changing a thing about how I get around and where I go.
As of right now- this is being over-hyped worse than anything Ive seen in my long life, imho..
The numbers do not match anywhere near the over-hyped hysteria being promoted by governments and the media, imho.
Something just seems amiss about it all..--Tyr

[Drummond]

Well, crap! wtf am I doing way up here with all of these moose, then?

Could be one of two things.

1. You're a closet sheep hater

2. You prefer to have reliable Internet access for more than 2 hours a day.

If it's the 'sheep thing', you should be ashamed ............

[SassyLady]

Now in Tucson.

TUCSON, Ariz. (KOLD News 13) - The Pima County Health Department announced Monday, March 9, a resident tested positive for the coronavirus and has been diagnosed with COVID-19.


The PCHD said the patient is cooperating with officials, did not get severely ill and is being quarantined in their home.

https://www.kold.com/2020/03/09/brea...sitive-covid-/

[Kathianne]

Well looky here, it appears that men and women have some differences-at least in China-regarding the virus and how deadly it is. Who'd have thought, gender making a difference?!?!

https://www.advisory.com/daily-brief...kWdSKvaAILYvR8

Science, who'd have thunk?

[Kathianne]

Well, this doesn't sound good:

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/scie...tance-and-stay

China / Science
Coronavirus can travel twice as far as official ‘safe distance’ and stay in air for 30 minutes, Chinese study finds
Authorities advise people to stay 1-2 metres apart, but researchers found that a bus passenger infected fellow travellers sitting 4.5 metres away
The scientists behind the research said their investigation also highlighted the importance of wearing face masks because of the length of time it can linger

The coronavirus that causes Covid-19 can linger in the air for at least 30 minutes and travel up to 4.5 metres – further than the “safe distance” advised by health authorities around the world, according to a study by a team of Chinese government epidemiologists.
The researchers also found that it can last for days on a surface where respiratory droplets land, raising the risk of transmission if unsuspecting people touch it and then rub their face.
The length of time it lasts on the surface depends on factors such as temperature and the type of surface, for example at around 37C (98F), it can survive for two to three days on glass, fabric, metal, plastic or paper.
These findings, from a group of official researchers from Hunan province investigating a cluster case, challenge the advice from health authorities around the world that people should remain apart at a “safe distance” of one to two metres (three to six and a half feet).

. . .

[Drummond]

Well, this doesn't sound good:

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/scie...tance-and-stay

Well, to my mind, it figures. Consider the case of the Diamond Princess, that ship that was (maybe still is ?) anchored just outside Yokohama. People aboard were in an environment where air was circulated through the ship's circulation system. The rate at which people were infected was phenomenal ... and way in excess of what we're expecting, or in fact seeing, in countries across the world, even the worst affected ones.

Society doesn't have its own specific, internal, air conditioning system common to all its citizens. Ships like the Diamond Princess, do.

The observable result was all too clear.

[Drummond]

UK stats update: confirmed cases standing at 322.

Our people are expecting a steady rise in cases in the coming days (no surprise there !). We're prognosticating that we should be reaching a peak of them in around 2 weeks' time.

[High_Plains_Drifter]

Far too much hysteria being ginned up by the usual suspects. Myself, I am not changing a thing about how I get around and where I go.
As of right now- this is being over-hyped worse than anything Ive seen in my long life, imho..
The numbers do not match anywhere near the over-hyped hysteria being promoted by governments and the media, imho.
Something just seems amiss about it all..--Tyr

I think the "MEDIA," aka, THE DEMOCRAT PROPAGANDA WING, is intentionally trying to build this up to be as bad as they possibly can. Why? I think it's obvious... the worse they can make it appear, the more they can trash President Trump.

"Never let a good crisis go to waste."