China coronavirus: Death toll rises as more cities shut down

Sure, if you don't mind skunked budweiser. It's just a sh*tty mass produced weak lager that's been exposed to sunlight. Blecht.
On the bright side, people don't look at you sideways when you squeeze a lime into it.

 

Well don't mind the Germans they are making the beer for Mexicans.

 

In some cases. Not this one.

 

Okay. I caught the flu a few weeks ago. It [the flu] was a Democrat, so after 5 days I impeached it.

 

Noooow you're getting it

 

….and the Ebola scare Obama over reacted to turned out to be way over blown in this country.

 

The Wuhan airport has reportedly been closed.

We should deny entry to any foreigner from problem areas, and quarantine US citizens returning from those same problem areas.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/22/world/asia/china-coronavirus-travel.html

 

One patient got into the US through mexico.

I saw footage of Wuhan airport staff checking passengers temps with a temporal thermometer.

Thats a very poor screen.

 

No, really, that's the last thing anyone wants to do. Not in China, Canada or here in the US. Believe it or not, panic in large cities like Wuhan can cause unrelated trauma too. It's also economically a disaster to try locking down any large city. It's costing China well over a billion a day in lost work. It's no different here. If we start closing down transport centers needlessly, it will cost plenty.

 

I know. My comment was somewhat tongue-in-cheek.

 

Airline passenger traffic is reportedly down 40% in China in the last few days. That's a hellava drop!

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/26/how-coronavirus-is-beginning-to-hit-chinas-economy.html

 

Right now, they (the CDC) are screening people who are travelling to the U.S. from Wuhan. If Wuhan has closed their airport, then no one is getting out of there. It seems to me like they are doing all that is practical, at this moment.

 

Inadvertently, scares like this affect the whole world. It made stock markets here and around the world bat schitt krazy all last week. Markets don't like unknowns.

 

Q. Is the gestation period for this "bug" 5-7 days? That would seem to add a bit more to the story, but that is just my uninformed opinion.

 

I think it's about a week. They've said it can be transmitted asymptomatically...so that is a concern. People could pass it along before they know they have it.

 

Thank you for the information.

 

Maybe in China they should stop eating rat, bat, and snake meat.

 

So China is supposedly building a new 1000-bed hospital just for coronavirus patients in 5 days, start to finish. The only updates I can find looks like they are still levelling the ground after 3 days.

Plus....they say the new hospital is not close to any water source (to prevent the water from becoming contaminated with the virus. Question though: If the hospital is not close to a water source, how is the hospital supposed to provide water to 1000 patients plus staff.

Obviously, building codes in China are much different than they are here.

 

Agreed but that's what it's like dealing with the chinese government.

 

Awesome and thank you very much.

 

Gross....I did read about bat and rat soup as a possible cause.

Is this video real or a joke?

 

I don't know about the video, but the Chinese pride themselves on being able to eat anything and everything.

They do eat bats, and baby rats.

 

Ugh. Very fresh meat!

 

The Andromeda Strain.

 

~ Let us not forget the sage advice from our previous leader :
▶ Obama On Swine Flu Prep: " We're Ready; Sneeze Into Your Sleeve - not your hands."