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Carona virus/Wuhan China/Pandemic

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Carona virus/Wuhan China/Pandemic

Unread postby PS Power » Sun Jan 26, 2020 4:00 pm

Let me start this with a simple heads up. It isn't time to panic, but we all need to do what preparations work we can, before any problems arise.

Maybe they won't.

I'll try to update things here, for as long as possible, including any advice or thoughts on the matter. Please keep the subject matter to this topic, in this thread. Thank you!



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Unread postby MarciaA » Sun Jan 26, 2020 9:14 pm

Wash your hands, often
Use the wipes you see moms use at stores to clean the shopping basket before using it
Take a daily vitamin to boost your system

As a nurse I do these things, just suggestions



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Unread postby PS Power » Mon Jan 27, 2020 3:51 pm

1. Wash your hands. Wash your freaking hands, you sick mother f-ers. Wash your freaking hands, or you'll die. Wash your freaking hands, because it's where the germs all land. Wash your freaking hands, so will I.

2. Use a bleach and water solution and disinfect any contact surfaces. Half a cup of bleach to a gallon of water. Use two spray bottles filled with it. That way you can disinfect one bottle with the other.

3. If we see an outbreak here (so don't worry yet) avoid contact with others. Limit trips outside. Shelter in place and do not let anyone into your home, if you can prevent it.

4. Don't shake hands. Really, we need to get rid of that one anyway. Why do we still do that? A nice wave will suffice...

5. Personal space needs to move from three feet to ten. (Stay ten feet from others, if possible.) Coughing can spread this virus, in airborne droplets. So can sneezing. They don't travel through the air forever, thankfully! They'll settle at about seven feet, in the main.

6. Avoid public transportation.

7. If a quarantine is called, follow it. Do NOT flee the infected zone. In Wuhan up to five million people fled the city right before the quarantine was called. Given the narrowest estimates, at least five thousand people were in the early stages of infection and now have spread this all over the world. (More on this later.)

8. Prepare NOW, just in case this comes here. Food, water, masks and goggles. Gloves and a steeled resolve to tell people to back off and stay away. Especially people who feel entitled to infect you and your family. Other family, friends, neighbors... If they aren't inside when you lock the door, do NOT let them in. They will show up. They WILL be infected. Send them away. Anyone selfish enough to take a chance at killing you isn't your friend.



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Unread postby PS Power » Mon Jan 27, 2020 4:04 pm

What do we know so far? Wuhan Novel Corona virus stats.

The Official stats, as of today.

From the CCP. (Chinese government numbers)
82 dead.
2700 plus infected.

Hong Kong University estimates that the real numbers have over 44,000 infected in Wuhan alone.

Doctors and nurses on the ground have reported much higher numbers, with upwards of 100,000 infected and MANY of them set to die form the disease.

Lancet Medical Journal has released an article showing that the death rate is around 15% and that the transmission rate is at 83%.

*In short, we have a good reason to think that the Chinese government is lying about the numbers. A lot.

Factors involved here: (Outside of simply saving face, which is a powerful thing in that part of the world.)

1. The country of China has run out of corona virus tests, about a week ago.

2. They don't have the man power to run the tests they already have.

3. They send people home, as a rule and do not keep death stats in general, like we do. The hospitals have no beds left, so have turn away hundreds or thousands of people who would have rated a stay, otherwise.

4. Early on, doctors who tried to sound the alarm were arrested and sent to work camps. That was inside this MONTH, so it isn't a small thing. The men and women coming out and speaking right now are facing ten years to life in prison for speaking out to the world. There hare dozens or possibly hundreds of them. Most are speaking Chinese, so we aren't hearing a lot about it.

** One source has spoke of watching what had to be at least one hundred people, men women, old and young collapsing in the street outside of her window, yesterday. She's on lock down, but desperate people have left their homes in seek of aid. At least some of them were being picked up by the morgue vehicles.

***People from China are bragging on the internet about faking their way through the quarantine zone, escaping it and there is video of sick people (in many ways) doing things like licking and coughing on things others will touch, on purpose, in order to infect them.

There are five official cases in the U.S and around a hundred to a hundred and fifty suspected cases. That last number is being published, but very quietly.



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Unread postby PS Power » Mon Jan 27, 2020 4:08 pm

Things to know about the U.S. plan for a pandemic.

1. You will not receive aid form the government. FEMA is not going to bring you food, medical treatment or aid, past what is needed to keep people calm.

2. They have stated, several times (in public) that it is easier to clean up the bodies than to save them. They plan to lie to us, in order to keep people calm. Assume that anything you hear is at least ten times what is being claimed. So when they tell you ten people have died, it will be at least a hundred.

*Is this paranoid? Probably. Don't panic. Get ready, just in case and keep your eyes and ear open, in case you need to move or seal yourself inside for a while.



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Unread postby PS Power » Tue Jan 28, 2020 10:23 am

New numbers from the Chinese Government:

4,500 (officially) infected.
106 (officially) dead from the Wahun Corona Virus.

*Remember, these numbers mainly reflect the speed at which the testing can be done, NOT the actual numbers of infected or dead from the disease. That's provided we aren't being lied to outright, though at this point, my guess is that event he Chinese government isn't going to bother with that. There's saving face and then there's killing the rest of the world due to stubborn pride...

Now we will have to wait and see how many of the officially tagged infected people are actually dead. Expect the numbers to go up every day, but slowly, compared to whatever is actually happening. The labs that can do this testing are backlogged for weeks or longer already, even in the U.S. where we don't have a fraction of the cases.



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Unread postby PS Power » Tue Jan 28, 2020 10:27 am

Word is coming in that the Canadian case in Toronto has spread. The man who was infected in Wahun while traveling seems to have infected his wife. This might end up being a different story, if she also traveled to that location.

Right now we don't have that information. I will update that here, when it comes in. If it comes in.

*Why is that a big deal? So far there have been no official signs of anyone outside of China catching the disease from another person. It is almost certainly happening, but if it isn't, for some reason, then it is good news.

It is still probably safe to go out in public, though large events should be avoided. Shopping should be fine, but wash up well, after and make sure you touch as few things as possible while doing it. Don't touch your face. Just... Ever.



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Unread postby qHnED7SnYgQs » Tue Jan 28, 2020 11:29 pm

There has been at least one confirmed case of human-to-human infection in Germany.



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Unread postby qHnED7SnYgQs » Tue Jan 28, 2020 11:32 pm

Oh, also important here: the person from which the infection originated only started to feel sick afterwards (while already back on the way to china), so that's a strong indication that the virus is probably air transferable before onset of obvious symptoms.




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