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2019-nCoV (Coronavirus)

Tipmoose

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The real takeaway from this is just how unprepared we as a nation and state was. If this was SARS with a 15% mortality rate, or worse MERS with a 35% mortality rate, this would be a far more devastating situation. Both of those are a coronavirus just like this one. And who knows, there is still the possibility this could mutate and become more deadly.

Our inability to rapidly test and contain this put every American at risk. Americans will still pay the price with their lives but this could have been a massive national tragedy on a far greater scale.

The bottom line is that we will *NEVER* be able to contain something like this. Never. Not and remain the USA. It simply isn't possible. Travel and immigration are part and parcel of this country. There are hundreds if not thousands of international flights into and out of the US every day. So unless you are calling for a mandatory quarantine of everyone entering the country every day, (and thanks to our porous borders not even this would help) I don't see how this sort of thing can be prevented. The only thing we can do is devote more efforts to R&D and treatment. This is a cycle...its been going on since creation. We're not going to stop it now.
 

Tipmoose

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Yup. The plague today would do more damage than it did 650 years ago.

We have the plague today. Its not a problem because we have antibiotics and vaccines.

But if we didn't, yes it would cause more deaths....there are 17 times as many people on the planet now as compared to 1400.
 

brock ratcliff

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Found out from a good source just minutes ago that we may have our first case here in greenfield. The kid went to school for three days with a low grade fever. He told everyone that his mom wanted to get him tested yet she continued to send him to school. Brilliant. They expect to have the results back tomorrow and this is why our kids were out of school today even though it was not planned until Monday.
 
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Sgt Fury

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Wife and I went to Walmart to get some stuff for a big pot of bean/ham soup I’m making Sunday. We went at 10:00 this evening to avoid the masses. People are definitely preparing for the apocalypse! Almost all canned goods, meats, breads, frozen foods were gone...zero paper products! The only thing well stocked was the fresh fruit and vegetables.....canned/frozen stuff is long gone.
Side note: while there, I sneezed and about a half dozen people looked at me like I owed them money.😂
 

Jackalope

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How in the hell is your genius governor getting away with saying there are 100,000 cases in Ohio?

Who is going to tell him he's wrong?

It was actually our Chief medical officer in the state that said it at yesterdays press conference. She said that based on community transmission signs that they are seeing it's safe to estimate approximately 1% of Obios population already has it, with 11.7 million people that's a little over 100k people.
 

Cogz

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We have the plague today. Its not a problem because we have antibiotics and vaccines.

But if we didn't, yes it would cause more deaths....there are 17 times as many people on the planet now as compared to 1400.
Ehh not quite. We don’t REALLY have vaccines for it and if there were a pandemic the antibiotics would be gone as quickly as toilet paper. We have improved hygiene and distance from animals who carry the fleas who carry the bacteria. If the plague began to spread it would be devastating.
 

"J"

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The real takeaway from this is just how unprepared we as a nation and state was. If this was SARS with a 15% mortality rate, or worse MERS with a 35% mortality rate, this would be a far more devastating situation.

We’ve been dodging bullets for years.... Sooner or later it was bound too happen....

I’d like too know if it was planned or just a freak accident.that this all is taking place....
 

Bowkills

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The real takeaway from this is just how unprepared we as a nation and state was. If this was SARS with a 15% mortality rate, or worse MERS with a 35% mortality rate, this would be a far more devastating situation. Both of those are a coronavirus just like this one. And who knows, there is still the possibility this could mutate and become more deadly.

Our inability to rapidly test and contain this put every American at risk. Americans will still pay the price with their lives but this could have been a massive national tragedy on a far greater scale.
this a test run china let out?
We’ve been dodging bullets for years.... Sooner or later it was bound too happen....

I’d like too know if it was planned or just a freak accident.that this all is taking place....
seems to have subdued the masses pretty fast.....I wonder if this was a trial run for something else.