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Coronavirus Can Survive 5 Weeks in the Body

https://twitter.com/kr3at/status/1244346462525407238

GM to Extend Shutdown

Second Shock in China

Countries Hoard Food

14,000 National Guard Deployed

https://twitter.com/kr3at/status/1244344936151089152

Florida Screens for Travelers from NY, LA, NJ, CT

https://twitter.com/kr3at/status/1244345406521257988

But other than these kinds of things, and hundreds more, It’s No Worse Than the Flu™ .

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Debbie C.
Debbie C.
6 years ago

I don’t know where you get the idea, it’s “no worse than the flu!”. I have read many hours each night, & I find the person came in on Monday & was dead on Saturday. I think 6 days or less, & dead, with barely flu like symptoms, is way worse than the flu! We are so used to people going to work, congested, or coughing, stuffed up, & red nosed, & sounding like crap, that, we forgot. At least, when the Dr says you have the “C” word. & You have 6 months to live, you at least have some time to prepare. COV 19, doesn’t give you anytime to prepare! Your family can’t get to the hospital in time to even see you, before your dead. Trying getting on an airplane! I think the saddest part, dieing alone, but, not really alone. Thanks to the nurses, & Dr’s that are there for you. Most lawyers are hunkering down, just like the rest of us. Last night, I made out a will. Incase of. I’ve always put it off. Lots of people have. So, hopefully, it will, hold up in court, considering, we don’t have a lot of options right now!

SynergyOne
SynergyOne
6 years ago
Reply to  Debbie C.

Debbie he is being facetious. He is quoting someone “else” who said it is not worse than the flu.

jfpersona1
jfpersona1
6 years ago
Reply to  SynergyOne

Not only is he quoting someone else – he even added the trademark symbol because the whole statement has basically turned into a ‘Herp-Derp’ type of meme.

Greggg
Greggg
6 years ago

Among other things in Doctor’s Cheat Sheet:
Plaquenil (hydroxy-chloroquine) which has weak ACE2 blockade doesn’t appear to be a savior of any kind in our patient population. Theoretically, it may have some prophylactic properties but so far it is difficult to see the benefit to our hospitalized patients, but we are using it and the studies will tell.
With Plaquenil’s potential QT prolongation and liver toxic effects (both particularly problematic in covid 19 patients), I am not longer selectively prescribing this medication as I stated on a previous post.
We are also using Azithromycin.

bradw2k
bradw2k
6 years ago

Fauci was today guesstimating 100k to 200k deaths in US, which is significantly worse than a bad influenza season.

lol
lol
6 years ago

Either the Chicom govt or US govt was on the verge of collapse,that’s why this Coronascam was manufactured,some major govt somewhere was on the verge of complete collapse,thats why the total lockdown of the populous,to buy time and figure a way out.

Anda
Anda
6 years ago
Reply to  lol

It would not surprise me if it were purposeful, but unfortunately the virus itself is not a scam. The response has been scamlike though, a sort of forward escape by most countries. Few, or none, dared to pre-empt against the spread of the virus. Some certainly knew well, in Spain for example they were in January sourcing masks and PPE to deal with the outbreak if/when it arrived. You could call that a mere precautionary measure, but at the least it demonstrates that authorities were aware that the possibility of outbreak was very real, and they did not act meaningfully to stop it until it was well past established in the country.

It makes you wonder.

danaceve
danaceve
6 years ago
Reply to  Anda

Simply just too much complacency in some countries to even think about pre-empting the virus, or considering it’s effects. This experience will globally change attitudes no doubt.

Stuki
Stuki
6 years ago
Reply to  danaceve

Not just complacency.

Also the harebrained notion that the status quo before the virus, was somehow something both sustainable and worth preserving. It neither was nor was.

Some yahoos were even indoctrinated and illiterate enough to believe the theft rackets were somehow a “good” thing. And were hence afraid, out of all stupid things, that it would somehow be a bad thing, if the rackets they have been indoctrinated to believe had something in common with “markets”, like, uhh, “went down” and, like, uhh. That’s how clueless, dumb and illiterate some people, including some Presidents of once-were great countries, had gotten.

Anda
Anda
6 years ago
Reply to  danaceve

Yep, but this is what disturbs me, because they almost all acted to the same script – only react properly once there were a larger number of cases evident in their country. Russia had its own mind, the US and few others gave half measures like flight restrictions, and neighbours in Asia who knew SARS better also were stricter. The rest of it though was confused advice and procrastination. Some are handling it better now, say Iceland, maybe Taiwan and Japan or Korea, they have a civil approach that is an example. The US is behind but not terrible, places like India and Africa are in big big trouble if it takes off there, hence the severity of their replies in real terms ( martial law, or lockdowns of populations that are borderline poverty already). In Spain politicians are being sued for manslaughter.

Politicians are often a reflection of their society, so it is not just political responsibility that will change by itself, more likely various societies will go through questioning themselves as well.

stephejdu
stephejdu
6 years ago

New aircraft carrier costs $13 billion. 100,000 Ventilators cost $1 billion. How many lives is an aircraft carrier going to save? Isn’t it time for the U.S. to retool for 21st century infrastructure? That includes healthcare infrastructure! I am tired of paying my taxes to support what destroys as opposed to what heals. This country has to change it priorities!

sangell
sangell
6 years ago

I might add of our 90 cases 8 are non resident. How many of our 90 caught it from those 8 is not known but it is probably not zero!

sangell
sangell
6 years ago

In my neck of Florida there are fewer than 100 cases in the Manatee/Sarasota/Charlotte county region. This region has 1 million people so the ‘attack rate’ is less than 1/100th of a percent. We’d like to keep it that way so OUR hospitals and healthcare personnel are not overloaded. What we don’t need is people from areas with much higher infection rates deciding to come here and bringing their disease with them.

xilduq
xilduq
6 years ago
Reply to  sangell

always place the word “known” before “cases”.

tokidoki
tokidoki
6 years ago

It’s No Worse Than The Flu

You Don’t Need Masks.

So if GM is shut down, who’s producing those ventilators? China?

Zardoz
Zardoz
6 years ago

These people have been denying science since Al Gore toured the country in his coal-powered rocket chair, carrying on about global warming.

They’ll deny it till they’re dead.

SleemoG
SleemoG
6 years ago
Reply to  Zardoz

That what cultists do.

Maximus_Minimus
Maximus_Minimus
6 years ago
Reply to  Zardoz

Science says if Al Gore didn’t tour the country in his coal powered transport, but sat at home on his substantial behind, there would be much less global warming.

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