College kid behind me in security line at HKG last Saturday was wearing a RedHawks hat and Miami sweatshirt.
College towns are going to be the most likely. Many are going to find out, in the most unfortunate of ways, just how much China props up our university systems (and a bunch of these cases will turn out to be run-of-the-mill URTIs).
Are the preppers off the grid yet? I mean this seems like the first real test of those losers since it became “mainstream”. If you aren’t bugging out for this, what the hell are you prepping for? discovery should be lining up the special report on all the dumbasses who sit in the bunker for 48 hours eating oatmeal and playing cards before they decide they need reception and a phone charger outlet again so they can post on Facebook and that the oatmeal would be better if they just went to the store and got some honey so they head back to civilization to die like the rest of us.
This won't do much. Should just let the market/airlines decide (United is already canceling some flights due to decreased demand), but nope, gotta make it a political football.
It's spelled Raccoon. Also that lab is in Shanghai and the virus that turned people into zombies was the 'T-virus' not the 'C-virus' like the conspiracy dipshits on Twitter are saying to promote this.
if the people testing positive never visited China, is the assumption that someone who did visit China infected them, and we are just not aware of who those people are? There is no possible way the same virus is in China and pops up in the US without direct human transmission, right? Right???
For Japan and Germany they are already traced who caused infections. The Japan case the infected man was a bus driver who had in the past two weeks driven a tour group from Wuhan. And in the case of the patient from Germany he had just attended a company training that one of the attendees was from Shanghai whose parents are from Wuhan and on returning to China she then started showing symptoms of the virus and tested positive. So that also confirmed transmission is happening during the incubation period.
well that's both a relief and frightening. It's pretty clearly spreading beyond our ability to control it by just asking people to stay away from Wuhan. In the past the bird flu and similar things basically died off after one season, right? How does that work?? I mean why doesn't the virus survive for years, why does it seem to only last through flu season, then we are in the clear?
Researched this, by watching Outbreak, and the short lifespan is probably due to finding a cure and vax
It's typically a combination of conditions in which the virus must travel through to find a new host and host susceptibility. These factors are different for different forms of viruses and mechanisms of infection, but with the flu, generally cold, dry air promotes the spread through both of these features.
There were thousands (might be tens of thousands) sick that had left Wuhan before the lockdown was implemented. It was always going to spread a bit, the goal was to limit its spread.
My son's school sent out an email basically saying all exchange students from the area or members or the school who have had contact with anyone from the area not come to school for two weeks.
I say we start banning people from the board as a precaution before this thing starts mutating and spreading through the internet
Even if this is the case and IF we assume the CCP is minimizing numbers, say we go with 100,000 cases from Wuhan, that's less than 1% of the population of Wuhan. Now, multiply by the odds these students are attending mini Bankz's school or came across someone from China even. Now, do the flu...
Here's a pretty neat personal interest story on a Wuhan high schooler who is preparing for the gaokao through all this: needs translating