Coronavirus Just Beginning Outside China!

“1. He was never arrested, but called in and asked to sign an acknowledgment/warning about spreading rumors and sensitive info.
2. This is because he was an eye doctor not a virologist and was saying that the hospital had SARS (which is inaccurate)
3. People are upset in China because they want to think the whole epidemic could have been prevented, but back then nobody knew the pathology, transmission, or contagiousness of the new virus. People would have also been upset w extreme preventative measures that turned out to be a false alarm.
4. In the end the courts ruled in favor of Li and said the police didnt need to bring him in as well”

https://worldaffairs.blog/2020/02/08/was-the-wuhan-doctor-a-brave-whistleblower-silenced-by-the-government/?fbclid=IwAR13TdIa4BPWbHc8-cdQMSPTXQbMi-Ne9xdl1uD8AMjclJBk3a7qEAMqVbM

If his friend hadn’t reposted what he said about “SARS victims” to a public post that went viral and caused panic he wouldn’t have gotten any attention.

Might be a good time to start prepping for a prolonged period of weeks/months. Better safe than sorry once the virus gets to your hometown. A lot people refrain from doing so as they are afraid of being labeled a “Prepper”. Don’t be. When the panic hits you’ll be glad you and your family/loved ones have enough supplies to not have to fly out into the melee and possibly risk being infected. And a much more likely issue, outside of infection, people are just more careless and inconsiderate when they are in a panic. Do your best not to add to it. You can be one less car on the road when people are speeding around and grappling for supplies. Stock up on non-perishable items like canned/dried goods and you’ll have nothing to lose if nothing really terrible happens. You’ll probably end up using it anyway.

A note about fatality rates: The virus has not yet run it’s course in these 60k+ patients. Until they have recovered and are cleared we can’t know if they will die or not. A mature ratio of the dead to recovered is the only real fatality rate. And that will only come in time. Who knows. Maybe it has already infected millions and only a very small percentage with severe symptoms are going in to get tested and confirmed. But if it’s not, then everyone best be prepared. At the very least, it already has almost double the deaths of SARS and apparently a ridiculously long incubation period.

^^ Not a bad idea to start slowly prepping. People, doctors, everyone seems to be having a hard time over in China because it is something they have never had to deal with on such a large scale before. Still seems like everything will be fine over here though overall. https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/opinion/2020/02/197_283424.html

It’s not the end of the world yet, right now it’s a race against time. The coronavirus will get here eventually but the longer we can hold it off the better. Best case scenario is that we develop good treatment before it arrives. The fatality rate depends on a lot of variables and the slower it spreads here the lower the likely fatality rate will be. Worst case scenario is that it spreads too quickly and the medical system is overwhelmed as has happened in China. We have the advantage of knowing it’s coming. They didn’t. And when they did start to notice it, they handled it very poorly. And just because it has a 2 percent fatality rate doesn’t mean you have a 2 percent chance of fatality if you get it. Stay in good health and don’t smoke and your chances are an order of magnitude better (that’s a guess, not scientific)

Having plenty of food on hand is a good idea regardless of what happens.

If you want a good book to read about viruses and how they spread I recommend the book Spillover by David Quammen. I read it a few years ago and should probably read it again. Very good read.

Most importantly make sure you have plenty of flashlights and batteries. Nothing worse than being stuck in a pandemic and not having a fancy flashlight to play with.

Maybe it is just a mother nature handling overpopulation?

Guys you are over-reacting!
It’s really not that bad…

Wow…

pic is a link:

Copper Flashlights are Oligodynamic.
pic is a link:

This only works if you misspell raccoon

That company is in Shanghai and is not the biolab that’s been the subject of numerous conspiracy theories relating to Wuhan.

Actually, I’d suggest trying to get hold of ReGenesis. One thread was about unearthing the 1917 Spanish flu which was frozen in the Arctic ’til it gets dug up.

Huh? I mean in that image they misspelled raccoon as “racoon” so the letters could be rearranged properly.

In the full size image of that sing it literally lists the company as being in Shanghai in english:

“Corona” viruses are so named because they look similar to sun/its corona. Round with many small spokes.

Well,

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which is also why the name was applied to the spikey radiance around the visible Sun.

Oops:

On the local news, they referred to the Wuhan coronavirus as Covid-19.

That's not nearly as catchy, in my opinion, but it's better than the novel coronavirus, which isn't specific enough.

I’d say it was more catchy ,wear a mask just to be sure :smiley:

Hey nice series… I like! :slight_smile: Similar to Walking Dead but more modernish.

There were some great serieses out there that are almost forgotten now. “ReGenesis” was one, “Medical Investigation” was another short-lived series… good stuff.

Where can I get “Medical Investigation”?

I find it scary more for political reasons than for medical reasons. The response is seriously affecting the freedoms of hundreds of millions of people. I’ve got mixed feelings about the justification this time, and general unease about the precedent demonstrated.

I’m not going to dismiss the medical concerns out of hand, but I suspect China has radically under-counted infections due to limited resources to diagnose, and limited self-reporting of mild to moderate symptoms. In other words, I suspect far more people have been exposed than we have counted, and the real fatality rate among those exposed is much lower.