Hahaha, this killed me.
For #1 the first thing I think of is “Fresh paint, don’t touch!” 
I haven’t read all 1,600 posts in this thread, but if the one you are referring to makes a political statement then yes, it’s out of line. Report it, and move on. Don’t quote it, and don’t further discuss it.
And just to be clear, I don’t have a policy for or against China, or the United States, or any other country for that matter. Users from all countries are welcome here as long as they follow the rules, whereas those who willfully refuse to follow the BLF Rules and insist on fomenting political/nationalistic discussions are not.
It is neither. Several hospitals in the US, being hit with shortages of personal protection equipment have been pondering how to make best use of their ppe. They may have to make decisions on this as gear runs lower.
@brad Please drop the subject and delete your posts on this page of the thread.
Edit: Thank you very much for quickly complying.
Coronavirus Rhapsody is awesome! I hope the creators don’t get sued by Queen. I kinda think it’s really a Public Service Announcement.
I think that’s what Vanilla Ice told the judge. It did not work out for him.
well,here in Slovakia we have some news-corona positive patients in home isolation carantena will be followed by their cell phones…To get the control over them…Very controversial step,but probably it can help…Many stupid people moved to Italy for skiing….I cant understand it.
But i have a question for everybody in this thread-what do you think?When this pandemic will be finally over,how will be our world change?
Or,will change anything?Or just measuring temperature on the airports?
Or is there anything deeper we have to change in our lives??Philosophical thoughts for my another single evening….
The UK no longer considers this virus to be a high consequence infectious disease. They’ve downgraded it based on the most current information available.
gov.uk
A meta-analysis of the data, posted on CEBM, has been used to estimate an infection fatality rate of 0.2% or less.
This will be the most defining and drastic event of the decade/generation (hopefully nothing worse comes along anyway). Similar to how the Great Depression, WWII, Vietnam/Cold war and social movements and 9/11 and the wars in Afghanistan/Iraq in 2000s were for previous generations of Americans. The economic, logisitcal and political ramifications are massive.
I doubt international/air travel will be affected nearly as much as when security was massively increased due to terrorism/drugs, but that depends entirely on how soon we get a vaccine and how effective it is.
I am still so thankful that children are relatively unaffected by COVID-19 and that Corona-type viruses generally don’t mutate as quickly as something like influenza. After the tragedies of Zika virus what a relief that the very young will be relatively safe.
They are basically saying it's just the flu. Gives more credence to the many experts that were stating the world has over reacted to this virus. In order to save face, most countries are probably going to drag this out a little more, look red faced in the mirror and then move on with everything.
This is “funny” to see…
Looking to the “consideration” about Covid-19 VS the definition and classification of HCID…
And looking to the “rankings” (’cause everything today is about rankings…) where UK is the 9th country with most infected and the 6th with most deaths…
And looking to the measures taken after the 19th March, when that Guidance was posted.
It confuses me!…
Well, it’s not like they can venture out in public and leave their phones at home.
Oh, wait…
Ohhhhh, boy. No way to answer that without getting “political”.
Very short reply, then I’m out. Massive grab for power and control by The Authorities™. Red or blue, it makes zero difference. (9/11, school shootings, pandemic, any “crisis” will lead down the same road.)
Given the push for a “cashless society”, expect there to be demonisation of “dirty filthy cash”, and moves to ban it. Before, “only criminals insist on the privacy of cash”, but now, it’s a “public health issue”.
Expect less privacy of your personal medical records. Bad enough everything you do or have done, medically, ends up recorded at the MIB (Medical Information Bureau), now, more and more “agencies” will expect/demand access to everyone’s records.
Expect more control/tracking/facial-recognition/you-name-it to become more commonplace. How else are you going to track Corona Mary?
Ties to phones (as above), cars (plate-readers), internet usage, etc. will probably become more commonplace as well.
“When you want to beat a dog, you’ll find a stick”. Well, Hurricane Corona that’s sweeping the world is one Hell of a big convenient stick.
Go’head, hoot’n’holler now, but mark this post. Check back in a year or two. Maybe less.
’K, I’m out.
The British catching their apocalypse numbers mistake is calming things down. People are starting to rethink this global nightmare.
And then at the same time they are creating MASSIVE temporary hospitals like this one:
It really is a very mixed message, and that’s not just the case in the UK.
I’m interested in seeing the public blowback not just if/when measures like these are implemented but if events don’t follow the amazingly optimistic predictions of certain public officials. This is showing better than ever how understaffed/funded/developed medical infrastructure and logistics in the US are, and how sensitive the economy really is.
Anyone else on here have a slight upper-respiratory infection?
Last Saturday I had a touch of dry/soar throat. By Sunday it was a runny nose. And since Tuesday it’s been mild congestion.
I cough a few times per day, but I think it’s still left over from the flu I had 3 weeks ago.
I just read this and it sounds similar, except I haven’t noticed a fever of any kind on me.
If this is what some mild cases of Covid are like, then there are SO many people not even noticing they have it because it doesn’t match what’s being reported as “mild”.
What I am saying is what-if there are 3 types of cases, not just 2? “Meek”, “Mild”, and “Severe”.
So how about you? Anyone have slight upper-respiratory issues they think are too meek to be Covid?
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Okay, scratch that.
I edited, I meant to say upper-respiratory, not sinus, my bad.
But yea, whatever I have is a polite and friendly invader. I have no worries. I would take 2 weeks of this over the common cold/flu.
I think that we will finally come to see the flu as the mass killer it is and that a lot of all that we have done and are doing because of this panic, will transfer over to decreasing our annual flu deaths.
After seeing so many comparisons between the flu and C-19, we as a people have learned that we have this ‘pandemic’ every year that kills 20,000 to 80,000 of us in the U.S. alone, and we weren’t even really paying attention to it.
I hope this fear mongering doesn’t make modern American popular culture even more timid and submissive to group think and low risk life than it currently is.
I am sure that for decades to come every household in America will now maintain a larger reserve of toilet paper.
