Damn, I hate that Facebook deletes that stuff because the people that repost it make it easy to compile a "who is a ****ing idiot" list.

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More and more universities are either starting spring break early or telling students not to come back from spring break...most are trying to get distance learning up and running for all their students.

Ohio St and Harvard are recent additions to the list.

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and TAMU and Texas are in serious discussion as of today about this. Trying to determine logistical capabilities of going online and making campus a ghost town. Significant financial implications to B/CS if this were to happen.

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All those students got to go somewhere. Doubt they'll stay holed up in the C-Stat apartments.

I believe this is a serious situation being made 1000x times worse by the panic inducing media and unsubstantiated nonsense and rumors being posted on Twitter/Facebook/Reddit.

This panic is what is going to lead to our hospitals being overrun and it's at least partially avoidable if the media wasn't freaking everybody out.

So when are we all supposed to die from this?

Best guess is Friday

certain segments of society can launch boycotts of certain news outlets that really caused this.
doctors and hospital workers that were overwhelmed w panic can aim at Drudge etc.

Drudge is the biggest culprit so far imho

if you don't believe me go to drudgereport and see for yourselves

Jesus Christ, their website looks straight out of 1995.

if you were wondering how on earth an old cheap anti-malarial might show effectiveness against a 2020 viral pandemic

this is all so crazy to me

A&M classes cancelled Monday and Tuesday next week

https://www.kbtx.com/content/news/Texas-AM-suspends-two-days-of-class-following-spring-break-568675071.html

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Doesn't look like a 14 day quarantine is gonna cut it.

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Testing positive after being declared clear of the infection: a 31-year-old evacuee from the Diamond Princess cruise ship was first infected on Feb 18 while aboard, but later appeared to have recovered and tested negative on March 4 and 6 in Japan before returning to Hong Kong on March 7.

On March 9, she was found to be still infected. Disease expert Dr Joseph Tsang Kay-yan said several reasons such as sampling error and "insufficiently sensitive" tests could have accounted for the woman's "false negative" results in Japan. "Perhaps the swab was not done properly, or an antibody blood test was not done."

In any case she would have to be tested for a particular type of antibody 21 days after the diagnosis, before results can be conclusive that she was clear of the virus. He believes the woman was not reinfected as her antibodies upon recovering would give her immunity for a period of time.

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https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3074457/coronavirus-three-more-infections-confirmed-hong

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Or it was a false negative test. The current test kits are very good, but nothing is 100%.

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That's exactly what the above text suggests.My commentary was about the typical 14-day quarantine when this woman's infection has spanned 21 days and counting.

Oh. Yes. The image says deep state central. I was wondering why NY Gov selected New Rochelle to deploy National Guard to set up quarantine... i have had many clients from N.R.NY - but never thought about checking its wiki page for notable citizens. Oh my.

Its action by the govt & It's pertinent to the topic.

Cone, you just beat me to this. This seems like pretty good news, but I'm no doctor.

Thanks for the headache...

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Oh. Yes. The image says deep state central. I was wondering why NY Gov selected New Rochelle to deploy National Guard to set up quarantine... i have had many clients from N.R.NY - but never thought about checking its wiki page for notable citizens. Oh my.

Its action by the govt & It's pertinent to the topic.

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Yeah but it's not really a quarantine. Cuomo is just shutting everything down and the National Guard is there to help them clean. Those are his people, many probably have a direct line to him. The squeaky wheel gets the oil in this case, I don't think it's really that big of a move on his part other than concentrating a lot of resources to "save" a lot of VIPs.

At least the Smurf Festival wasn't cancelled!
https://news.yahoo.com/french-mayor-defends-smurf-rally-outcry-over-virus-001955753.html

Would it be wrong for me to wear a painting respirator to Kroger tonight and have a little cough?

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I bet the smurf on the right likes getting smurfed right up her smurf if you smurf what I smurf.

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That's a dude.

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Would it be wrong for me to wear a painting respirator to Kroger tonight and have a little cough?

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Do you look east Asian or Italian?

me neither, but if you can treat mild cases / low severity cases on the cheap, over the counter, then that would be huge

it would require double blind trials to confirm, and we don't have that

but the potential mechanism of interaction is really really cool

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I bet the smurf on the right likes getting smurfed right up her smurf if you smurf what I smurf.

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That's a dude.

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All smurfs are born male and only become female when magically transformed

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I bet the smurf on the right likes getting smurfed right up her smurf if you smurf what I smurf.

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That's a dude.

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Sentence still works.

Rolling start....

https://www.kbtx.com/content/news/Texas-AM-suspends-two-days-of-class-following-spring-break-
568675071.html?fbclid=IwAR378pqzaU7e-T611A_deIRNBnv141UYIyzAc4H2JiymNB-4JTQ4y5AJBDw

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COLLEGE STATION, Tex. (KBTX) - Texas A&M University is suspending two days of class next week out of concern for the spread of coronavirus.

Classes are suspended for Monday, March 16, and Tuesday, March 17. Faculty and staff are still required to report to work on those days, the official told KBTX.
The University's dining, transportation, health, counseling, and other services will be available while classes are suspended.

In a message posted to the University's Coronavirus Update page, Provost Carol Fierke said there are no plans to cancel classes or move courses to an online format.
Monday, the university canceled school-sponsored travel outside of the United State through May 1.
On March 6, Texas A&M launched a website for mandatory reporting of student, faculty or staff travel through locations that have been designated as Level 1, 2 or 3 by the CDC for COVID-19. Any students, staff or faculty currently traveling to those areas will have to self-quarantine for 14 days. Those affected are also encouraged to monitor their temperature twice daily and make note of any cough or difficulty breathing. During business hours, affected Texas A&M students may call 979-458-8300. After business hours, students are encouraged to call the Dial-a-Nurse program at 979-458-8379.

There have been no cases of coronavirus reported at Texas A&M and no students who are presenting any symptoms, including those few individuals who returned from CDC Level 2 and 3 countries.

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Im sure it has been discussed before on this thread, so forgive me for not keeping up with all almost 400 pages, but I wonder if the situation in Italy and Wuhan have any linkages to chronic respiratory issues caused by smoking.

In china, males smoke at a rate north of 60%, compared to 15-20% here. With that type of culture, you have people in old age that have smoked for decades, weakening their lung function. Also, the air quality in urban Chinese cities is notoriously bad, so even your average city-dweller probably has at least some respiratory damage.

I dont know the stats in Italy, as I have only been there once in 2003, but it seems like smoking would be more prevalent there as well culturally in which you might have a similar cohort - older people that were chronic life-long smokers.

Just a thought. would be interesting to put the numbers of deaths up against % of population of smokers.

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Im sure it has been discussed before on this thread, so forgive me for not keeping up with all almost 400 pages, but I wonder if the situation in Italy and Wuhan have any linkages to chronic respiratory issues caused by smoking.

In china, males smoke at a rate north of 60%, compared to 15-20% here. With that type of culture, you have people in old age that have smoked for decades, weakening their lung function.

I dont know the stats in Italy, as I have only been there once in 2003, but it seems like smoking would be more prevalent there as well culturally in which you might have a similar cohort - older people that were chronic life-long smokers.

Just a thought. would be interesting to put the numbers of deaths up against % of population of smokers.

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It has been discussed throughout the thread, and other than the virus cheerleaders who only believe the worst news should be posted, most everyone agrees that it is far more dangerous to people who smoke.

Heck, just breathing in the air in China is probably close to as bad as puffing on some cigs. Northern Italy has a pretty high percentage of elderly residents, and smoking there is also very common.

Jamaica is on the board.

And the real question is, who is the ****ing dumbass at Biogen who decided it was a good idea to bring a bunch of people from Europe to the US for a meeting?

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More and more universities are either starting spring break early or telling students not to come back from spring break...most are trying to get distance learning up and running for all their students.

Ohio St and Harvard are recent additions to the list.

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and TAMU and Texas are in serious discussion as of today about this. Trying to determine logistical capabilities of going online and making campus a ghost town. Significant financial implications to B/CS if this were to happen.

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All those students got to go somewhere. Doubt they'll stay holed up in the C-Stat apartments.

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My kid was in a corps dorm and was always sick. That thing was old and not terribly clean. That was in the late 2000's. Hope they have done something about that by now. If not I can see kids getting exposed to not just Covid-19.

it's bad and definitely does not help

what i'm concerned about stateside is how this virus plays out with the obesity epidemic

we might not smoke as much, but we're fatter, and what's that going to look like in terms of comorbidities

so just because we have fresher air and don't smoke as much doesn't mean we don't have our own set of vulnerabilites

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techno-ag said:

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Spudman said:

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More and more universities are either starting spring break early or telling students not to come back from spring break...most are trying to get distance learning up and running for all their students.

Ohio St and Harvard are recent additions to the list.

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and TAMU and Texas are in serious discussion as of today about this. Trying to determine logistical capabilities of going online and making campus a ghost town. Significant financial implications to B/CS if this were to happen.

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All those students got to go somewhere. Doubt they'll stay holed up in the C-Stat apartments.

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My kid was in a corps dorm and was always sick. That thing was old and not terribly clean. That was in the late 2000's. Hope they have done something about that by now. If not I can see kids getting exposed to not just Covid-19.

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Well they got two extra days of Spring Break. We'll see if Blinn follows suit.