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Re: It's official! The Corona Virus is going to kill us all!
« Reply #26 on: February 02, 2020, 06:09:07 AM »
I'm not all that worried about the corona virus.  Everything from China breaks or fails, so it won't be around long.
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Re: It's official! The Corona Virus is going to kill us all!
« Reply #27 on: February 02, 2020, 01:13:03 PM »
This novel strain of the coronavirus does have the potential to be just like MERS which is a another coronavirus that has a 30% mortality rate of those who get infected.

Coronavirus gets is name because of a ring of sugary proteins that surround the envelope of the viral package. Corona means crown. 
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Re: It's official! The Corona Virus is going to kill us all!
« Reply #28 on: February 13, 2020, 10:26:56 PM »
Yes, the "normal" flu kills many more people than this beer virus.  And the beer virus doesn't seem like it's going t o reach those kind of numbers.

But, how can we tell it's time to run/hide/hunker down if/when an actual killer virus does show up?  How to tell when the "Aw *expletive deleted*it!" moment has arrived?

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Re: It's official! The Corona Virus is going to kill us all!
« Reply #29 on: February 14, 2020, 07:22:24 AM »
"But, how can we tell it's time to run/hide/hunker down if/when an actual killer virus does show up?"

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Re: It's official! The Corona Virus is going to kill us all!
« Reply #30 on: February 14, 2020, 12:08:11 PM »
Yes, the "normal" flu kills many more people than this beer virus.  And the beer virus doesn't seem like it's going t o reach those kind of numbers.

But, how can we tell it's time to run/hide/hunker down if/when an actual killer virus does show up?  How to tell when the "Aw *expletive deleted*it!" moment has arrived?

A bit of a personal decision based on your own risk tolerance and whatnot.  Detection and reporting will lag actual infections.  Anyway, I personally wouldn't be particularly concerned until the following conditions are met:

1) Community spread in the local region / contact tracing has broken down.
2) Disease that is significantly infections /easily spread.
3) Disease has significant mortality rate for otherwise healthy folks.

This would prompt me to limit contact with people as much as possible, become more fastidious about hand hygiene and carefully watch local developments.

My wife and I are both tied into the medical industry, so it's entirely possible that either or both of us will become involved as part of the response effort, which also increases risk, but so be it - somebody needs to help folks fighting for their lives. 

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Re: It's official! The Corona Virus is going to kill us all!
« Reply #31 on: February 14, 2020, 05:15:16 PM »
I'm wondering how much of those paper masks' protection is due to the fact that they discourage touching your nose and mouth after your fingers have been contaminated with outside germs.

I know they aren't worth much in terms of actual filtering, especially if you need a shave or have many wrinkles.

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Re: It's official! The Corona Virus is going to kill us all!
« Reply #32 on: February 15, 2020, 08:09:25 AM »
Interesting tangent: I don't know the accuracy, but heard it on the news this morning: China apparently manufactures 90% of our generic drugs for us. That was a surprisingly high percentage to me.

Certainly makes for some interesting tinfoil biowar speculation. There's a zombie apocalypse novel in there somewhere.  :laugh:
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Re: It's official! The Corona Virus is going to kill us all!
« Reply #33 on: February 15, 2020, 09:43:09 AM »
Interesting tangent: I don't know the accuracy, but heard it on the news this morning: China apparently manufactures 90% of our generic drugs for us. That was a surprisingly high percentage to me.

Got a news source for that?

I can see tech/active ingredients being China sourced, but not the finished product.
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Re: It's official! The Corona Virus is going to kill us all!
« Reply #34 on: February 15, 2020, 09:47:56 AM »
Got a news source for that?

I can see tech/active ingredients being China sourced, but not the finished product.

Did you read my post and the caveat? I said I saw it on the news, Fox Business,  I believe Dr Nicole Saphire. If i had an article, I would have posted it.

EDIT: To satisfy currently contrarian curmudgeon Charby, I did his skeptic googling for him, using commie pinko news sources he approves of:

https://www.wired.com/story/8-ways-overseas-drug-manufacturers-dupe-fda/

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/05/16/723545864/the-generic-drugs-youre-taking-may-not-be-as-safe-or-effective-as-you-think
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Re: It's official! The Corona Virus is going to kill us all!
« Reply #35 on: February 15, 2020, 12:53:52 PM »
Ayeiieeee! If the generics thing is true, I would definitely want to know the source of the genetics before taking them and definitely would not take one if it were made in China.
I’ve been in the chemical/pharmaceutical industry for over 20 years, and have seen very few suppliers of any chemical from China that wasn’t completely sketchy.  Many that I’ve dealt with were dishonest at best, and outright fraudulent at worst.


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Re: It's official! The Corona Virus is going to kill us all!
« Reply #36 on: February 15, 2020, 01:23:21 PM »
Did you read my post and the caveat? I said I saw it on the news, Fox Business,  I believe Dr Nicole Saphire. If i had an article, I would have posted it.

EDIT: To satisfy currently contrarian curmudgeon Charby, I did his skeptic googling for him, using commie pinko news sources he approves of:

https://www.wired.com/story/8-ways-overseas-drug-manufacturers-dupe-fda/

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/05/16/723545864/the-generic-drugs-youre-taking-may-not-be-as-safe-or-effective-as-you-think

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Re: It's official! The Corona Virus is going to kill us all!
« Reply #37 on: February 15, 2020, 01:26:14 PM »
Ayeiieeee! If the generics thing is true, I would definitely want to know the source of the genetics before taking them and definitely would not take one if it were made in China.
I’ve been in the chemical/pharmaceutical industry for over 20 years, and have seen very few suppliers of any chemical from China that wasn’t completely sketchy.  Many that I’ve dealt with were dishonest at best, and outright fraudulent at worst.




I'm used to the pesticide chemical trade stream, because of my work, it's crazy how much technical material is sourced from China and formulated here. Especially the generic pesticides. I know in my line of work, I do draw samples of formulation from trade stream to check the purity as advertised.
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Re: It's official! The Corona Virus is going to kill us all!
« Reply #39 on: February 15, 2020, 09:23:39 PM »
Corona Virus is gonna kill us all? Damn. I was hoping to meet my end at the hands of a jealous husband ...

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Re: It's official! The Corona Virus is going to kill us all!
« Reply #40 on: February 15, 2020, 09:28:11 PM »
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Re: It's official! The Corona Virus is going to kill us all!
« Reply #42 on: February 15, 2020, 10:44:55 PM »
Nasty little bugger.

Doesn't China have a population problem?

Not for long maybe...
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Re: It's official! The Corona Virus is going to kill us all!
« Reply #43 on: February 16, 2020, 07:32:31 AM »
Didn't know a simple question was so offensive, what's your address again so I can send you a Snickers.

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« Reply #44 on: February 16, 2020, 09:38:11 AM »
I appreciate the offer, but USPS doesn't deliver to me and I need to take like six bus transfers to get to the UPS pickup because everyone is always stealing my packages.  =D

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Re: It's official! The Corona Virus is going to kill us all!
« Reply #45 on: February 16, 2020, 04:55:51 PM »
There are reports that it has been confirmed the virus escaped the lab near ground zero.

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Re: It's official! The Corona Virus is going to kill us all!
« Reply #46 on: February 16, 2020, 08:49:49 PM »
There are reports that it has been confirmed the virus escaped the lab near ground zero.

The conspiracy theories occam’s razor being proved true more frequently than the straight mainstream news [tinfoil]
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Re: It's official! The Corona Virus is going to kill us all!
« Reply #48 on: February 17, 2020, 01:51:58 PM »
https://twitter.com/ezracheungtoto/status/1228637753941753857?s=09

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« Reply #49 on: February 17, 2020, 01:54:03 PM »
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