Northside Hawk
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Or it's the extreme Winters. A polar air mass like the one we had last year at the end of January will kill airborne pathogens.
Are you personally worried about getting the Coronavirus?
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EstronHawkKing
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Matt Colvin with his stock of hand sanitizer and other supplies in demand due to coronavirus concerns that he was selling online until Amazon and other sites started cracking down on price gouging, at his home in Hixson, Tenn., March 12, 2020. (Doug Strickland/The New York Times)
Matt Colvin with his stock of hand sanitizer and other supplies in demand due to coronavirus concerns that he was selling online until Amazon and other sites started cracking down on price gouging, at his home in Hixson, Tenn., March 12, 2020. Sites like Amazon and eBay have given rise to a growing industry of independent sellers who snatch up discounted or hard-to-find items in stores to post online and sell around the world. (Doug Strickland/The New York Times)
He horded 17,700 bottles of hand sanitizer. What a jerk!!!
Seth53
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Gee....then I can join those tens of thousands buying up the toilet paper, refusing to shake hands, and living in a bomb shelter.
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SmokeTownHawk
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I'd just like to be the one selling bidets right about now.
Northside Hawk
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Thats a macabre way of looking at it, but not too far removed from something I said last week (which now seems like last year) that "mother nature always has a way of exhibiting checks and balances".
You and everyone do not know how many have the virus because the testing is woeful. It could easily be more than 100,000 which is the number the Ohio Public Health Director says is probably soon in Ohio. Hard to argue against exponential growth models.
Better to shut things down than have a huge spike in cases from letting the normal course of the virus run.
If life is shut down and the virus doesnt spike we will never prove the negative hypothesis that if no action was taken it also wouldnt have spiked but wow that non-action is terrible to think about.
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Well if the death rate is about 1% like many think and if everyone in the US were to catch it then 1% of 320 million will be 3.2 million deaths. Now the fact that there are a lot of elderly and people with bad conditions already that number could be 5 million or more. So I am not sure the death numbers couldnt be bad with no actions taken
How can they test dead people when they dont have tests by pulling a rabbit out of their hats.
Stupid people in charge could have had millions of tests from WHO a month ago but didnt want to do that to then admit we couldnt handle testing with US means. stupid
Very well said.
Well Swine Flu of 1976 amounted to nothing because a newer vaccine for it was developed and millions of americans got the shot. My wife and I waited in line in Iowa City with thousands of people to get the shot.
Everyone needs to remember the distinction between Influenza which almost always has a vaccine available and cold viruses like coronavirus which do not have vaccines available. Right now the best immunologists in the world say it is a year to 18 months to get a full use coronavirus vaccine. And that is predicated on the idea that the virus will not mutate to another bad form that the vaccine doesnt have much effect against.
Where did you get those numbers??? Usual yearly death tolls from flu in the US are usually much larger than that number.60 million people got H1N1 with over 12,000 deaths. Turn your TV off.
That is because no one ever really wants to go to W Virginia and their population is too poor to socially move around. Some what just kidding but maybe all the coal dust in their air kills the virus, and just kidding again.
Haha, I just posted this same type of response then read you beat me to it.
Good call. The pox virus family, and it is a family, is different than the cold virus type coronaviruses. Chicken pox, cow pox, small pox can be immunized against and if you know how small pox was eradicated from the illness list it started in th 1700's or even before in China by using a mild strain of a pox virus to scratch the skin of people to introduce the virus family into the person's body and elicit an immune response which creates anti-bodies to give small pox immunity.
I do not think even the experts know if you can only get this coronavirus variant only once.
We do not often get vaccines for cold type viruses but they are trying to get one for this virus.
HuckFinn
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No I am not worried. Most people will get it or already do have it and don't know. Those will strong immune systems will be able to fight it off easier, those who do not will have issues. But that is the case with most viruses. Frankly, the silver lining of getting the virus is your body can learn to recognize it and fight it off, in the event this is something you can get more than once. If we had an intelligent society the shelves would be cleared of vitamins or products rich in vitamin C so one can strengthen their immune system, not toilet paper. Alas we do not live in an overall intelligent society, rather one filled with alot of bungling idiots willing to fall for anything and not think for themselves and that is what worries me more than a stupid virus.
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