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So stupid, that was done like 2 months ago.

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You may well be right. I was skeptical of such claims at first, but a good friend reminded me that he and his entire family got something in late December while traveling from Maryland to Arizona. His description of their symptoms was exactly the same as coronavirus: high fever, dry cough, lasted about three weeks, and totally kicked their butts. His kids got it also but the symptoms were dramatically lower for them.

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Yep, my daughter came down with a bug that was again negative for strep and flu two weeks ago. Lasted for a few days and she was fine.

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I had flu symptoms two weeks back (2/23-2/27) and went to a 24 hour clinic. Flu test came back negative but the attendant said that was normal and I probably had strain-C since the test only works for A & B strains. Headaches, weakness, cold sweat, joint pain, slight dry cough but no runny nose. Sucked, but over and done in 3-4 days.

Could of been a voodoo priestess...certified Haiti voodoo doc

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You ever try to get an old person to do something they don't want to do?

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I've already shifted to shaming.

Me: "Dad, you have type-2 diabetes, went on an Egyptian cruise (not that one) 30 days ago and your are 72 years old - why on earth are you going out in public to work at the library?"

Dad: "I feel fine. I'll stop if I start feeling bad."

Me: "So when you get it, then you'll stop. Neat."

*Mayor closes the library to the public*

Dad: "It's just closed to the public, I still go into work."

Me: "They are BOOKS. What are they going to have you do, check for dog-ears?"

Just got back from liquor store. Unreal packed. Shelves almost empty. Man unprecedented times. Lucky to nab a 175 Titos.

The rapid flu test has a high false negative rate. Up to 50%. So lots of "i felt terrible like I had the flu but the test was negative" cases are still the flu

typical boomer... my dad is the same way

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Permanent scarring of lungs, virus ability to re-infect after recovery, maybe this is manmade due to these odd characteristics of concern.

If so, somebody knows exactly how effed up the virus actually be.

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I'm not sure what you're referring to, and your Emoticon suggests you're joking, but please don't spread the disinformation that this is man-made. It's only going to make fear and panic worse, and we don't need more of that.

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No evidence suggests that the virus is man-made. SARS-CoV-2 closely resembles two other coronaviruses that have triggered outbreaks in recent decades, SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV, and all three viruses seem to have originated in bats. In short, the characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 fall in line with what we know about other naturally occurring coronaviruses that made the jump from animals to people.

https://www.livescience.com/coronavirus-myths.html

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It's one of those terrifying bioweapons that kills 3% of those infected (and 0.008% in South Korea). Let's pray that ISiS doesn't use it.

The chicoms need to get a handle on their wet markets. For such an authoritarian govt that will kill and oppress its people in a jiffy, they are letting a virus cultivating **** show go on

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The rapid flu test has a high false negative rate. Up to 50%. So lots of "i felt terrible like I had the flu but the test was negative" cases are still the flu

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Yep. I had the flu at the end of December and tested negative.

Way too early to have been the Kung Flu.

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---New deaths over the last 9 days in chronological order (WHO numbers)----

China: 38, 31, 30, 28, 27, 23, 17, 22, 11, 7. Total China deaths at 3180. China topped out at around 150 daily deaths.

Not China: 48, 53, 69, 78, 71, 202, 186, 258, 310, 335. Total 1775.

US: 4, 3, 1, 1, 0, 0, 8, 6, 4, 7. Total 36 (WHO numbers).

New Italy deaths: 28, 27, 41, 49, 37, 132, 97, 168. 196, 189. Total 1016.

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Appreciate these stats. Wow only 36 in the US. You would think there'd be three or four more zeros after that number with all the hysteria.

It rarely can cause ARDS. Extreme acute lung injury with fulminant respiratory failure. This is how it kills people. ARDS carries a 40% mortality rate itself. But survivors of ARDS don't develop pulmonary fibrosis. In fact many studies have shown 1 year ARDS survivors have mild decrements in DLCO (ability of lungs to absorb O2) but otherwise normal lung function and imaging.

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Just got back from liquor store. Unreal packed. Shelves almost empty. Man unprecedented times. Lucky to nab a 175 Titos.

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i did costco yesterday:

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You gotta go back for the rest of the pandemic

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law-apt-3g said:

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Permanent scarring of lungs, virus ability to re-infect after recovery, maybe this is manmade due to these odd characteristics of concern.

If so, somebody knows exactly how effed up the virus actually be.

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I'm not sure what you're referring to, and your Emoticon suggests you're joking, but please don't spread the disinformation that this is man-made. It's only going to make fear and panic worse, and we don't need more of that.

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No evidence suggests that the virus is man-made. SARS-CoV-2 closely resembles two other coronaviruses that have triggered outbreaks in recent decades, SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV, and all three viruses seem to have originated in bats. In short, the characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 fall in line with what we know about other naturally occurring coronaviruses that made the jump from animals to people.

https://www.livescience.com/coronavirus-myths.html

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Of course it shares characteristics... it's a coronavirus. Isn't it kinda weird that it apparently shares the best of those characteristics? It's like a coronavirus greatest hits. 4 hours in the air, most only minutes. Asymptomatic transmission of over a week possible, hours or days for most others. Longer incubation than most... yadda yadda yadda.

Interestingly enough, the only this that it doesn't seem to have a higher value than others is CFR.... which would make it a better bioweapon.

And it showed up at the doorstep of a lab which had numerous prior breaches.

But yeah, how silly to entertain the notion.

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Haiti seems to be able to screen people much more effectively at airports than we do.

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How many airports? How many flights in a day? How many total passengers are we talking here?

What type of test? Swabbing? Temperature?

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How is that relevant? We still had people streaming on in from the hot spots in Europe not even checked.

C@LAg said:

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Just got back from liquor store. Unreal packed. Shelves almost empty. Man unprecedented times. Lucky to nab a 175 Titos.

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That last you this weekend right?

Heard the first rumor today of someone in Brazos County being tested for the coronavirus, saying he got it from the first case in Montgomery County.

Hopefully it is just the usual rumor mongering bull**** that goes around, but the guy who said it isn't the kind who generally spreads rumors and he's about as cool under fire as one can be.

I know. JK.

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Shanked Punt said:

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Haiti seems to be able to screen people much more effectively at airports than we do.

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How many airports? How many flights in a day? How many total passengers are we talking here?

What type of test? Swabbing? Temperature?

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How is that relevant? We still had people streaming on in from the hot spots in Europe not even checked.

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Your question is about the ability to test people at an airport.

If you cannot see that the amoutn traffic will have a great effect on ability to test then you're on your own.

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Shanked Punt said:

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Haiti seems to be able to screen people much more effectively at airports than we do.

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How many airports? How many flights in a day? How many total passengers are we talking here?

What type of test? Swabbing? Temperature?

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How is that relevant? We still had people streaming on in from the hot spots in Europe not even checked.

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it's completely relevant and you know how that is

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Oh. https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2020/3/13/21179118/google-coronavirus-testing-screening-website-drive-thru-covid-19

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Contrary to Trump's claim, Google is not building a nationwide coronavirus screening website
Instead, Verily is building a triage website just for the Bay Area

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Jesus. WTF is it with this clown show? I was honestly a little impressed that they were finally getting things right.

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How can people continue to defend these kind of massive flubs? (I would call them "lies" but I get scolded when I do). For days and weeks now, this guy can't get through a single appearance, speech, or press conference without announcing things that aren't even remotely true or causing massive confusion. I genuinely do not understand how information is mismanaged this poorly. Further, I don't understand how people continue to have faith in an administration that, time and again, gets the messaging *this* wrong. If they're this bad at the messaging, how are we supposed to have faith in their execution?

How are the Kirkland brand liquors? Obviously they'll do the job, but they any good?

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Oh. https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2020/3/13/21179118/google-coronavirus-testing-screening-website-drive-thru-covid-19

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Contrary to Trump's claim, Google is not building a nationwide coronavirus screening website
Instead, Verily is building a triage website just for the Bay Area

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Jesus. WTF is it with this clown show? I was honestly a little impressed that they were finally getting things right.

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How can people continue to defend these kind of blunders? (I would call them "lies" but I get scolded when I do). For days and weeks now, this guy can't get through a single appearance, speech, or press conference without announcing things that aren't even remotely true or cause massive confusion. I genuinely do not understand how information is mismanaged this poorly. Further, I don't understand how people continue to have faith in an administration that, time and again, gets the messaging *this* wrong. If they're this bad at the messaging, how are we supposed to have faith in their execution?

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Welcome to conservatism!

Ah, didn't notice that. Thanks for pointing that out.

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Marcus Aurelius said:

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Just got back from liquor store. Unreal packed. Shelves almost empty. Man unprecedented times. Lucky to nab a 175 Titos.

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i did costco yesterday:

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I hate Texas blue laws... Can't get the Costco brand booze here. Though I do enjoy Total Wine, I just want to be able to buy it in my Sunday Costco runs.