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I did a search - before the Great Hiatus there were precisely three passing references to coronavirus.

Jim Bakker should be back in jail. Who knew? Maybe Tammy Faye was a moderating influence on the asshole. To me such actions (if you didn't go to the link: in summary Jim Bakker of sex scandal and air-conditioned doghouse fame has been selling - for $125 a pop - a concoction which cures coronavirus and, while it's in there, takes care of your AIDS as well) are akin to looting during an emergency: shoot on sight. I'm not a gun guy and I'm no fan of the death penalty, but I'm willing to make exceptions.

Presidential leadership is of course lacking but we knew that. It's my belief that he gave the job to Pence for two reasons. Firstly Pence will fuck up because, well, that's what he does. Which means that Trump can say - it's not my fault, I put the second most important guy on the planet in charge, I did all I could because obviously I am much to busy twatting to get bogged down in this sort of detail. Secondly, and this is how we know that the guy is a stable genius, after Pence fucks it all up he will have the perfect excuse to replace him with Nikki Haley as VP on the November ticket.

There are things anyone can do now even if Copad-19 hasn't hit your state now. Learn to do your grocery run once a week instead of pretty much once a day as I do. Tell your pastor to knock off the 'let's all shake hands' thing and just make eye contact with and smile at each other. Use those wipes they give you at the supermarket to clean the push bar on the cart. Exercise at home rather than at the gym. Give the game or the concert a miss. Don't bother with the birthday cake someone brought in and left in the lunchroom. Reducing the transmissability of this virus by a few percent will have an enormous effect on the overall spread. In epidemiology there is a factor called R zero (written as R with a subscript zero - I do't think I can do this here) which represents the average number of people infected by one individual with the virus. If R zero is <1, then the disease will not spread. So the goal is to reduce R zero by any means necessary - isolate the infected folk is the first step, but reduce all stranger interactions. Most of it is common sense.

From the Guardian:

Stephanie Grisham came back during flight to say the CDC visit is back on. There will “probably be a tour” she said when asked what would be on the itinerary.

Explaining the on-off nature of the trip she: “What the president said is true.” [Based on his statements at the White House prior to his departure this morning.]

A CDC member of staff was suspected to have contracted coronavirus and they did not think they would get the test results in time before president’s trip so “out of an abundance of caution”, she said, it was postponed for the safety of everyone involved and to allow the CDC to prevent any further spread.

“Thankfully she’s negative, the person,” tested negative.

Itinerary is now to visit Nashville and then go to Atlanta.

ex-khobar Andy wrote:BTW - that's interesting. When BSG copied-and-pasted my post, the links did not copy. I'm pretty sure they used to in the olden days.

ex-khobar Andy wrote:I did a search - before the Great Hiatus there were precisely three passing references to coronavirus.

Jim Bakker should be back in jail. Who knew? Maybe Tammy Faye was a moderating influence on the asshole. To me such actions (if you didn't go to the link: in summary Jim Bakker of sex scandal and air-conditioned doghouse fame has been selling - for $125 a pop - a concoction which cures coronavirus and, while it's in there, takes care of your AIDS as well) are akin to looting during an emergency: shoot on sight. I'm not a gun guy and I'm no fan of the death penalty, but I'm willing to make exceptions.

Presidential leadership is of course lacking but we knew that. It's my belief that he gave the job to Pence for two reasons. Firstly Pence will fuck up because, well, that's what he does. Which means that Trump can say - it's not my fault, I put the second most important guy on the planet in charge, I did all I could because obviously I am much to busy twatting to get bogged down in this sort of detail. Secondly, and this is how we know that the guy is a stable genius, after Pence fucks it all up he will have the perfect excuse to replace him with Nikki Haley as VP on the November ticket.

There are things anyone can do now even if Copad-19 hasn't hit your state now. Learn to do your grocery run once a week instead of pretty much once a day as I do. Tell your pastor to knock off the 'let's all shake hands' thing and just make eye contact with and smile at each other. Use those wipes they give you at the supermarket to clean the push bar on the cart. Exercise at home rather than at the gym. Give the game or the concert a miss. Don't bother with the birthday cake someone brought in and left in the lunchroom. Reducing the transmissability of this virus by a few percent will have an enormous effect on the overall spread. In epidemiology there is a factor called R zero (written as R with a subscript zero - I do't think I can do this here) which represents the average number of people infected by one individual with the virus. If R zero is <1, then the disease will not spread. So the goal is to reduce R zero by any means necessary - isolate the infected folk is the first step, but reduce all stranger interactions. Most of it is common sense.

Scooter wrote: better to find some self-contained location on land

Zhang Boli said almost all regions outside Hubei had managed to halt new infections by the end of last month, according to an interview with the official People's Daily.

He estimated other cities in Hubei will hit such a target by mid-March, based on data on how the outbreak has evolved, but did not give details.

BoSoxGal wrote:"... Western countries will struggle to control the spread as effectively as was done in China.