Junior Miller

Lucky you

Under age 40 yes because I believe the one child law went into effect in 1980. I don't think their elderly has that issue.

Someone's not the master of his domain.

Spain is in pre-Italy right now. Been talking to tons of friends from back there and they're at the point of playing a champions league home match with no fans, and for them that's drastic. Their cases doubled yesterday. My question for people who have these travel plans is how could you even enjoy the trip? Just the possibility of getting this in a foreign land and possibly getting stuck there with no family/support (I'm assuming you're going on vacation and do not have family there) would make the trip totally unenjoyable for me.

Governor wheels was all up in arms about the CDC letting that lady out of quarantine to run around to the mall, but never once mentioned how it's the trump administration and their woeful handling of testing that led them to believe she was not positive for the virus. As usual Governor wheels is going to bitch and moan about everything but never placed the blame on his shit fuck party where it belongs. He'll probably find a way to blame Mexicans somehow.

Yes, because Milan to Minsk is just far too dangerous these days

If you read the link it was sound protocols put in place by both the previous president with dark pigmentation and his predecessor who spoke funny that lead to a very good federal response to the swine flu outbreak. The response to this outbreak has been abysmal. What has changed from 2005 to 2020? One wonders

https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20090501.001058/full/

Unfortunately this is so new there are no experts on this. Everyone is learning hour by hour in real time and so far the stats we have to go off of are: Flu: In US about 35 to 45 million cases annually resulting in 300 to 500 thousand hospitalizations and 35,000 to 45,000 deaths. Covid19: As of this morning approx 115,000 cases worldwide with 4,000 deaths. Can't get rate of hospitalization nailed down enough to post but most I've seen are around 10 to 20 percent. Quality and quantity of stats on Covid19 aren't up to where we need them yet but tough shit as this is what we have to work with. Based on this and seeing how a country like Italy is on the verge of having it's healthcare system overrun in a manner of days it's gross negligence at best for anyone to claim this is similar to the flu. We won't have the data to say for certain for quite a while but what we do have suggests it's a problem that can over run our medical system easily if precautions aren't taken. Right now the federal government isn't taking the proper precautions and the leader of the government and his political party are downplaying the threat in spite of the mounting evidence to the contrary. This is just a fact and people can call it what they want.

Gonna build a wall so tall those Chinese can't fly over it in the many international flights a day coming from China to the US.

They treated 3 Asians for covid19 that day. He swears by it and isn't the type to bullshit. Given how the CDC has fucked everything up here I have zero doubt.

William Henry Harrison died from pneumonia contracted from giving his inauguration speech in a cold driving rain. Not pandemic but similar.

Would be nice to have that room to cut taxes these idiots gave away during a bull economy in 2017. Three away the recession fighting weapons so now the feds ability to curtail this thing looks a lot weaker than it should. A lot weaker than 2008.

He'll be the first one to bitch if one of his kids needs medical treatment but the hospitals are overrun with Covid19 patients because we didn't take the proper precautions he keeps shitting on during this period when we have the chance.

*Couldn't* care fewer

Holy shit people in their early 100s should not be going to Vegas in a time like this.

yeah he's not leaving voluntarily because his immunity disappears and all of a sudden he's got to face legal consequences. He might take one of the secret service guys sidearm and blow his brains out before he'd ever leave voluntarily

Just for fun I'm telling everybody who asks me about this that the Coronavirus is just God punishing Americans for trump. That's why God waited until the election year to rain down his pestilence upon us for the wicked orange idol we have chosen to follow.

If you get Chinese takeout but then nuke the shit out of it when you get home... Is that racist?

On the other hand American culture has a very big aversion to physical contact with other people that European cultures just don't have. I mean where the country that invented the "dap". That could serve to help quite a bit that we don't naturally kiss and hug each other the way a lot of other cultures do. That said if we decide that because we're American we are immune and we just keep rolling on with large gatherings and school then it won't matter. Stores are pretty much sold out of disinfectant wipes so as long as he's rubes actually use the fucking things correctly that could also b a good sign. Glad I bought those 2,000 shares of CLX the other day, lulz

I'd be really interested in seeing the national figures for deaths attributed to pneumonia, flu, cold, and respiratory illness in February and March compared to December and January.

We have to accept this is going to get a lot worse. But if they shut down schools and universities as well as all large gatherings including church services this could be handled well. With the president unable to know the difference between comparing annual flu rates with a couple of weeks of this virus that we have almost zero ability yet to test for I am sure we'll get the worst case scenario.

That's why you can't stop the transmission. It's going to work its way through the population of the world. What's critical is to slow the rate of transmission enough to not overwhelm the medical infrastructure at any given point in time. That's why you cancel school for several weeks and postpone large gatherings of people while making sure everyone is at least told to wash hands, stop shaking hands, and stop touching your face/eating if you haven't washed your hands. With the statistical rate of fatal auto accidents being so low there isn't a danger of overwhelming the medical infrastructure with them. With this virus there is certainly the danger of doing so if proactive measures aren't taken until we get more info and can see exactly what we're dealing with. That's the difference.

Just seeing this thread title brought rough memories of the year I played for the English club and had to live in that country. God awful food. I had my mom ship me a package of Tony Chachere's so I could season the food enough to make it barely edible.