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2019-nCoV (Coronavirus)

Tipmoose

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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.

Agreed. We don't live with fleas anymore and that's the major reason it isn't a problem. However I think plague would be the least of our problems if 7 billion people were suddenly living in the same conditions as those in the 1400s.
 
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Jackalope

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There are plenty of other viruses that are deadly as hell. Some strains of Ebola have 100% mortality rates. Most are around 60%. The thing that makes those outbreaks easier to control by containment is onset of symptoms and death is very quick. People dont have long go spread it before they know they have it, and they die pretty quick freeing up room for more people to be quarantined. In rural areas where it has flared up it usually kills people quicker than it can spread, so it burns itself out.

With COVID people can be infectious for weeks without symptoms. And the demand on the medical system is high due to how slow it progresses. Other covids like SARS-1 and MERS have 15 and 35% mortality rates with similar symptoms, spread, and contaigen properties to the SARS-2 were experiencing now.
 
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bowhunter1023

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Rural King in Parkersburg was just a nor.al experience. Kroger in Belpre is on the fringe of chaos at the moment. They'll be out of meat by the end of the day. I only bought things in high supply, but did figure it was worth one more pass since we don't know how the supply chains will reach just yet. Let's hope inventory on consumables and non-perishable items were up due to the boom in the economy. Seen on older couple that looked overly concerned about being out and about. That's not a good thing to witness.
 
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giles

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Been taking 4 Cold Eze zinc lozenges per day for the last week and a half.
Atta boy. I wasn’t trying to promote anything special, but let people do some research on what they can maybe do to help themselves. Plenty of options! I have the liquid and lozenges. I have a bit of extra crazy in me and everyone knows it, so I wasn’t trying to promote any more panic. I also plan to grab another 2 30 racks to day and another carton of smokes for the wife. Added another 2,500 rounds this last week also. Why? Because I can and it helps me sleep.
 

Bowkills

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Atta boy. I wasn’t trying to promote anything special, but let people do some research on what they can maybe do to help themselves. Plenty of options! I have the liquid and lozenges. I have a bit of extra crazy in me and everyone knows it, so I wasn’t trying to promote any more panic. I also plan to grab another 2 30 racks to day and another carton of smokes for the wife. Added another 2,500 rounds this last week also. Why? Because I can and it helps me sleep.
My buddy was in rural king people buying guns and ammo big time. Took him 25 mins to get a fishing liscence. Parking lot was full full when I just went by.
 
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Jackalope

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To put this in perspective the CDC estimates that we will sustain between 200,000 and 1.7 million deaths due to COVID. 296,000 Americans died in combat in WW2.

From 1776 to Present in all wars combined 666,441 Americans have died in combat. If we add in non-combat deaths to include accidents, suicide, disease etc it is 1,354,664.
 
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Jackalope

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How long before we see the state or federal government imminent domain a hotel for patients? If you think about it hotels are just hospitals without the equipment. Separate rooms with a bathroom, closet, dresser, and TV in each room. A main entrance with the ability to lock all other entrances. It's a perfect makeshift hospital. Or will they go the gymnasium route with cots like we've seen elsewhere in Asia. Could hold more people but spacing and furnishing becomes an issue.
 

Geezer II

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To put this in perspective the CDC estimates that we will sustain between 200,000 and 1.7 million deaths due to COVID. 296,000 Americans died in combat in WW2.

From 1776 to Present in all wars combined 666,441 Americans have died in combat. If we add in non-combat deaths to include accidents, suicide, disease etc it is 1,354,664.
The only parallel between WW II and Covid is we were not prepared for either - i
To put this in perspective the CDC estimates that we will sustain between 200,000 and 1.7 million deaths due to COVID. 296,000 Americans died in combat in WW2.

From 1776 to Present in all wars combined 666,441 Americans have died in combat. If we add in non-combat deaths to include accidents, suicide, disease etc it is 1,354,664.
All the data we have in the USA is based on screening those with symptons - you could test negative today and positive tomorrow or in the near future - tuff nut to crack
 

teenbowhunter

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Welp the girl I’ve been seeing (and saw last night) was hanging out with a girl with a nasty cough two days ago. That girl just received an email saying she’d been exposed to someone with coronavirus. Shits moving fast, might be time to get off campus.
 

Jackalope

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The only parallel between WW II and Covid is we were not prepared for either - i
All the data we have in the USA is based on screening those with symptons - you could test negative today and positive tomorrow or in the near future - tuff nut to crack

My intent wasn't to diminish the impact of WWII so you ha e my ipolofoes if I struck a nerve. I was only drawing a comparative analysis to lives lost.

The CDC estimates were based on world virus data and spread predictions of previous US viruses.
 

Cogz

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To put this in perspective the CDC estimates that we will sustain between 200,000 and 1.7 million deaths due to COVID. 296,000 Americans died in combat in WW2.

From 1776 to Present in all wars combined 666,441 Americans have died in combat. If we add in non-combat deaths to include accidents, suicide, disease etc it is 1,354,664.
I think the CDC is full of shit. First of all an upper range that is 850% than the lower range, and a lower range that is greater than the number of confirmed cases is complete horse shit. The most talented people stay in the private sector and heres the result.
 
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