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anantaandroscoggin

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I'm finding there are too many people who can't realize that the 24-to-48 hour bug which has become commonly referred to as "the flu," (formerly spelled something like "flux") is NOT THE SAME THING as influenza. That is a misunderstanding that can kill ya.

This coronavirus' contagion rate makes it seem like the ideal weaponized virus. Are there any Chinese military laboratories in the Wuhan region? Containment for a patient or two is much more practicable than containment when mass manufacturing the same virus.

It seems the entire staff of the Pandemic specialists the CDC had were fired several months ago, with no replacements intended.
 

prairiedruid

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If this were a bio weapon it isn't a good one. Doesn't have a high mortality rate, not great at spreading quickly (3 months and only 100k infected), plus virus doesn't survive on surfaces very long. Seems coughing and sneezing is the best way it spreads, whereas a weaponized anthrax has many more ways to spread.
 
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sablebrush52

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Those orientals are fiendishly clever. They have managed to screw up their entire economy because one of their scientists made a mistake with his pot noodle lunch and ate a bat by mistake!
Snake apparently, not bat this time around.Snake RNA is tied to this virus.

But have no fears. We're well prepared, and the Dow did not fall 3,000 points.
 
Yesterday on NPR, they said that current death rate with this virus is 2%, compared to the flu, which is like 0.2%. But, because this is very early in it's development, and they may have had people get the virus, but not seek medical assistance, that the percentages are very skewed. It could very well, be very similar top the flu. We probably won't know till it gets here.

They scared us to death with Sars and that bird flu, but by the time it got to the US, it was similar to the flu or cold.
 
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