Oso planning to go pro
Wow, I'm very concerned for Benny. Being able to mimic Myron Medcalf's writing so closely implies an oncoming case of dementia.
I once knew a few ladies who regularly came down with Coronavirus, but at least they never got scurvy.Honest question: Theoretically, does US Immigration/Customs maintain records of persons entering the US by country/city of origin? If not, the airlines would have these records, and you would think they would be happy to turn these over to the CDC in the interest of a potential public health emergency.So the question is, why wouldn't the CDC immediately deploy field personnel to be in contact with every person in the U.S. who has traveled to Wuhan (or any other hot spots in China) over the past 4-6 weeks? I don't think we're talking 10's of thousands of people here, so logistically, they should have the resources to do so, and frankly, I don't think most people of sound mind would question the justification... any virologist will tell you that it's not nuclear weapons, guns, or Putin that poses the biggest risk to society.I'm not saying sound the klaxons to round these people up or put them in quarantine immediately, but shouldn't the CDC at least be monitoring every one of these people for symptoms, keeping track of where else they've been and who they've contacted, etc. It all seems very reactionary on the part of the CDC right now, and frankly, if this is SOP, if Coronavirus doesn't decimate the population, it's only a matter of time before Howie Mandel has the Earth all to himself.
Treat it with a lime virus.
Yeah, if you want doom, I don't think the Coronavirus is going to cut it.
I've been thinking about this a lot when reading the number of confirmed cases vs deaths. Its reassuring. At the same time though, isn't the fatality rate sufficient to throw a real kink into modern society suprisingly low? I tried searching for an article I read awhile back about this, and couldn't find it, but I thought I read that widespread transmission combined with death rates in the low-mid single digits could effectively shut down society as we know it.
Plus, do you think China is releasing truthful numbers?When the virus was first becoming obvious to the public, their response was to silence any reports.
As I look at that, I’m reminded of something I didn’t know until just a few years ago: rabies is some serious sh*t. If you’re symptomatic, you’re gonna die. I never realized.
I tend to not get overly concerned about these things. My advice to my daughter at Purdue: “Wash your hands a lot and don’t make out with anyone who was recently in China.”
What if he (or she) is a crazy, rich Asian?
Yeah I think there is ONE survivor... fairly recent and her life is a total mess because of the rabies.
Not quite a total mess. She went through hell and back during her recovery, but is doing fairly well now:https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/health/2016/03/29/motherhood-is-latest-milestone-for-woman-who-survived-rabies/84941662/The odd thing about how she was bitten: taking a bat out of church to "save" it. Parents, don't let your daughters grow up to be bat rescuers!
I learned about rabies several years ago from a good friend. He and his family had been on vacation at a lake house and awoke in the morning to find a bat in the house. All the bedrooms were open. They didn't catch the bat for testing. Even though nobody had any particular reason to believe they had been bitten, scratched, etc., the medical recommendation was that all six of them receive the vaccine. It wasn't mandatory, but he was ultimately persuaded when the doctor told him, "If if was my family, I'd do it" because if symptoms develop, it's too late.