China Coronavirus Outbreak Spreads; Hundreds Infected As Human-To-Human Transmission

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redsquirrelAG said:

If you believe those numbers, sure. And you can't confirm what you don't test!


ok, so the numbers are bogus and they are not testing.

Then how are we drawing any valid conclusions at all?

The 1st case of the virus showed up in the US on Jan 19, 1.5 months ago. If our numbers are right, we now have 233 cases.
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Italy had a jerk symptomatic pakistani migrant working in both a restaurant preparing and handling food for hundreds daily and also delivering Chinese at night. He refused to self quarantine.

Yes, that could/will happen here too (gotta love our cultural enrichment of 3rd world muslims; thanks Obama) but let's not pretend it was just a massive spread through the air without some help.

https://summit.news/2020/03/05/coronavirus-patient-zero-in-italy-was-pakistani-migrant-who-refused-to-self-isolate/
cisgenderedAggie
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Our numbers aren't reflective of actuality. We have 200+ confirmed cases. Thats an underestimation, and probably an enormous one.

The first cases in early January might have been contained. It's clear that this ceased to be the case several weeks ago, if it ever was.
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I don't disagree.
Tanya 93
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The reality in this country is people sick with this before they know they are sick with it are going to be making your meals, delivering your groceries, checking you out etc because they can't afford to stay home. Would you make the choice to leave your family potentially homeless in a couple of months vs toughing it out as long as you can work?

We can say that choice is selfish, but are you going to pay their rent?

There are some really hard choices that might need to be made by the government in the upcoming few months if they really want to contain this.
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Trump is in ATL at CDC headquarters today. Will be interesting to see what comes out of those meetings.
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AggieChemist said:

Trump is in ATL at CDC headquarters today. Will be interesting to see what comes out of those meetings.


Per fox radio he cancelled that, didn't want to "get in the way of their work"
https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/06/politics/trump-cancels-cdc-visit/index.html
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bmks270 said:

AgsMyDude said:



Yikes


It looks like the CDC doesn't have the manpower or equipment to even perform the needed number of tests. Not that they don't want to, I think they just don't want to admit that they physically can't.

I hope Trump (or Pence?) steps in. What the **** is the CDC doing?


The CDC is being "government".

This makes me really look forward to Medicare for All!
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Not lower than the flu. That's the same to 10x.
Bruce Almighty
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I'm going to carry around a spray bottle filled with rum 151 so when I go to McDonald's I can disinfect my Big Mac.
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Hopefully they save that clip for campaign material.
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Tanya 93 said:

The reality in this country is people sick with this before they know they are sick with it are going to be making your meals, delivering your groceries, checking you out etc because they can't afford to stay home. Would you make the choice to leave your family potentially homeless in a couple of months vs toughing it out as long as you can work?

We can say that choice is selfish, but are you going to pay their rent?

There are some really hard choices that might need to be made by the government in the upcoming few months if they really want to contain this.


I'll say it. It's still selfish.
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Bruce Almighty said:

I'm going to carry around a spray bottle filled with rum 151 so when I go to McDonald's I can disinfect my Big Mac.


A BigMac will kill you before this thing does.
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nortex97 said:




I might need to have a chat with Mr. Giroir about this...
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AgsMyDude said:



Yikes
F/ck! This is where I would normally say "and people want to nationalize healthcare and put the federal government in charge?!?" However, countries with socialized medicine are responding better than we are to this situation. This is pretty f/cking appalling. Way to go, CDC.
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Ol_Ag_02 said:

Tanya 93 said:

The reality in this country is people sick with this before they know they are sick with it are going to be making your meals, delivering your groceries, checking you out etc because they can't afford to stay home. Would you make the choice to leave your family potentially homeless in a couple of months vs toughing it out as long as you can work?

We can say that choice is selfish, but are you going to pay their rent?

There are some really hard choices that might need to be made by the government in the upcoming few months if they really want to contain this.


I'll say it. It's still selfish.
Go for it.

Will you pay the rent of the 9 dollar an hour fast food worker as you hit their Drive thru?

Is it really selfish to want a home when you don't know you have it? You just have a cough?
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What happened to all of your bravado about going out to eat and this is no big deal and blah blah blah?
Tanya 93
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claym711 said:

What happened to all of your bravado about going out to eat and this is no big deal and blah blah blah?
I went to a film festival last night.
It was awesome.
Three more movies today because a friend can't make it and gave me her ticket to one more

Just pointing out the reality, you can't decide to live in public and shop and eat and have fun and not expect those on the minimum wage scale not to work. They have a reality too. And that is having a roof over their head

If we want them to stay home, something has to be done so they are not homeless in May
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n_touch said:

Vendor who sold concessions at Seattle XFL game tests positive for coronavirus

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A vendor who sold concessions at CenturyLink Field during the February 22 Seattle Dragons XFL game has tested positive for COVID-19, but authorities say it is unlikely the stadium employee spread the coronavirus to anyone at the game.

"We have worked with the employee and the operator of the stadium, First and Goal, to evaluate potential exposures at the Feb. 22 Seattle Dragons game, and we've determined that the risk of infection to attendees from this person was low," a spokesman for Seattle's public health department told the Seattle Times. "We are following up with a few co-workers with close contacts of the employee at the February 22nd game to provide guidance on appropriate precautions"

And yet, from another post in this thread:

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Italy had a jerk symptomatic pakistani migrant working in both a restaurant preparing and handling food for hundreds daily and also delivering Chinese at night. He refused to self quarantine.

So how is it the pakistani migrant in Italy shared with customers yet the person selling concessions at a football game likely didn't?
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nortex97 said:

Italy had a jerk symptomatic pakistani migrant working in both a restaurant preparing and handling food for hundreds daily and also delivering Chinese at night. He refused to self quarantine.

Yes, that could/will happen here too (gotta love our cultural enrichment of 3rd world muslims; thanks Obama) but let's not pretend it was just a massive spread through the air without some help.

https://summit.news/2020/03/05/coronavirus-patient-zero-in-italy-was-pakistani-migrant-who-refused-to-self-isolate/


They also ramped up testing so people could quarantine. We aren't even testing enough of our Healthcare professionals.

Also, if I'm understanding you correctly, you are comfortable with the average American properly executing a self quarantine? I sure don't

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For those keeping track, worldwide daily cases confirmed remains around 3k for the last few days (most are outside of China now).

Daily deaths are around 100.
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now explain the Italian outbreak
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My work sent out an email saying no travel outside of 100 miles without manager approval (most of us in our office make drives further than that to see our customers) and if possible any work meetings should be done virtually. Most of my time right now is spent working from home anyways if I am not travelling but this means they just want me chilling at home
cone
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so how do you avoid a Wuhan/Italy outbreak without proactive testing?
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Singapore had the largest jump in cases today since the outbreak began. The media and government have been managing expectations that this is the calm before storm now that the virus is in so many other countries.
FamousAgg
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cone said:

so how do you avoid a Wuhan/Italy outbreak without proactive testing?


Complete quarantine or extreme personal hygiene
scottimus
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So who will be the first TexAgs poster to get this?
Suppose I was an idiot. Suppose I was a member of congress. But, I repeat myself.
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cone said:

now explain the Italian outbreak
Well, since you didn't like my previous post explaining it here it is; Pakistani muslim migrant jerk.

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The man believed to be coronavirus patient zero in Italy is a Pakistani migrant refused to self-isolate after testing positive for the virus and continued to deliver food.
Health authorities asked the man to quarantine himself at his home in the Pavia area for two weeks, but he ignored the request and continued to work at a Chinese restaurant.

He then compounded the risk of spreading the virus by making home deliveries of Chinese food.
Authorities were alerted to the situation and the military intervened to return the man to his home.

"The Carabinieri have been busy reconstructing all the movements of the young man, in order to identify as many people as possible with whom he came into contact. In the meantime, the military has closed the Chinese restaurant," reports Free West Media.

The migrant now faces up to 3 months in jail for failing to self-isolate under article 650 of the Italian penal code.
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Ol_Ag_02 said:

Tanya 93 said:

The reality in this country is people sick with this before they know they are sick with it are going to be making your meals, delivering your groceries, checking you out etc because they can't afford to stay home. Would you make the choice to leave your family potentially homeless in a couple of months vs toughing it out as long as you can work?

We can say that choice is selfish, but are you going to pay their rent?

There are some really hard choices that might need to be made by the government in the upcoming few months if they really want to contain this.


I'll say it. It's still selfish.

For people that are showing symptoms, yes it's selfish.

But unless you have self-quarantined yourself, how can you say people who were showing no symptoms of something going about their day is selfish?
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scottimus said:

So who will be the first TexAgs poster to get this?
As much as some people post on this thread, there might already be some of us in quarantine!
cone
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a month too late
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Friend of mine just flew back from Seattle. His company is making him stay home for 14 days. All employees that have traveled on the west coast are homebound no matter what.

Economic numbers are going to really suck leading into the post labor day election season.
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cone said:

now explain the Italian outbreak
I'll need to find the article I read, but there are large Chinese communities across Italy where they come to work and assist the fashion industry.

My guess is that before Wuhan locked down, a lot of them made it back to Italy (plus others who also got out early). It was in Italy while we were still talking about the Chinese doctor that said he got it through his eyes...before anyone was locking down travel from China.
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if we can't trust the workers or businesses to protect the consumer, we won't consume

they'll be out of a job either way
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