Coronavirus
Okay, Ive been trying to think of something worse than being stuck on a cruise ship with Coronavirus.
I decided on: having a virus of any kind anywhere in the damn world.
There are between 22 – 31 million people with the flu right now in the United States. I had two different kinds of flu at the same time a couple of years ago and spent two weeks in the hospital because they didn’t know how to cure it. Yes, I took the flu shot. No, it did not include that kind of flu.
I cannot understand why everybody is running around waving their hands in the air when we already have flu that kill people all winter long.
So, I will vote for the first candidate who promises to fix the damn flu.
Ms. Juanita Jean Herownself you might want to rephrase “So, I will vote for the first candidate who promises to fix the damn flu.” That would be Donnie* who iirc has also promised to cure cancer. And, if you believe Mexico will pay for his* wall, this ‘message’ is not snark.
But yes. As you have indicated the biggest danger to people from Coronavirus is being quarantined by governments with fascist tendencies and no understanding of flu, viruses or science in general. Call it “panic and patriotism,” or just another day in the Republicon alarmist arsenal.
1Well,the obverse of that would be Mike Pompeo coming back from Europe after being snubbed by the germans (root word: germ) with a sniffle then stopping by the offal office to report to the commander in cheese.
Hey, all the permutations are in play!
2Netflix’s documentary ‘Pandemic’ is a very good overview of current disease hunting and vaccine development efforts world wide. Yep, there are efforts by scientists to develop a decent ‘covers all strains’ flu vaccine. As far as flu treatments, very few viral diseases actually have a treatment (flu now has 2 but not all strains are susceptible). So treating symptoms and trying to keep the patient comfortable & alive while his/her body fights the thing is about all we have right now.
3So it is not a Mexican beer like moron said?
4As you know from the terrible experience of getting two strains at once despite vaccine, the problem with flu is the ease and speed with which it mutates to defeat our best efforts. Anyone who promises to “fix the damn flu” is blowing smoke and does not deserve your vote. And especially avoid clowns like Tom Cotton, who asserts without evidence that this coronavirus is a Chinese biological weapon. Not very smart infecting their own people, is it, Tommy?
5Buttermilk Sky @5 ” Not very smart infecting their own people, is it, Tommy?” That is the Republicon way; nuclear proliferation, no problem. There isn’t a bad idea Republicons are not ready to adopt and make worse. In the days of Donnie* their work is almost done for them.
6Which is worse, stuck on a flu infested cruise ship or stuck in a assisted living place full of Trump lovers? That’s my fear. When too old to tend to myself, my meal companions will all be Trump clones.
Any investment people out there? How about senior living facilities serving like minded people?
7While I sort of get JJH’s point, I have to disagree about downplaying or making light of COVID-19 though.
It is a potentially very dangerous viral disease that could become a worldwide pandemic, like the “Spanish Flu” of the late 1910’s that killed many millions.
Covid-19 may or may not get that bad, many things have changed for the better, governments and medicine seem to be handling this reasonably well so far.
But Covid-19 is highly contagious, as yet has no known preventatives, immunity, or cure, and apparently strikes even healthy individuals [like the Doctor who first raised the alarm, and died of it] without difficulty, whereas the various regular flu strains tend to hit immuno-compromised groups harder [young, old, ill].
We should all take this seriously. I watched the 0430 news this morning showing one of the 747 transports landing then in San Antonio, bringing about half the American cruise ship passengers [some with positive Covid-19 test results] from Japan to Kelly Field and Lackland for quarantine, about 45 miles from me. I have neighbors who work at those bases, if this virus gets loose it could be serious right close to home real quick. [coincidentally, decades ago a coworker did a TDY in Wuhan, a now –medium-sized– Chinese city of ~11million, more than double the size of the largest USA cities]
We’re going to have to trust ‘the authorities’ for now.
— But remember, Trump and the Rethugs have been cutting the budgets of the CDC, et al, for years, including this new budget proposal of an ~11-15% cut; while faced with this danger from Covid-19 [among other things].
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/17/1919816/-COVID-19-cases-hit-71-000-as-vacationing-Americans-finally-come-home-to-14-days-of-quarantine
“This is a large epidemic. It’s an easily transmitted disease for which there is neither a vaccine nor natural immunity, and it has demonstrated its ability to overwhelm the health care capabilities of a large modern city, going from zero to 70,000 cases and 1,700 people dead in three months. You’d have to be more than a little self-delusional to have no concern, or to confidently state, “We got this.”
8But despite the size of this epidemic—closing in on an order of magnitude greater than SARS—it appears that fast action by governments around the world stands a very good chance of holding COVID-19 in check and restricting its spread worldwide to a small number of cases that can be contained and given appropriate treatment, resulting in a very low rate of case fatality. “
Crone, when my grandmother, in her 90’s, was in an assisted living facility, I used to come down from Alaska to visit and would spend much of every day with her while I was there. One woman (pre Trump) loved her some Rush Limbaugh, and I thought I was going to have to stick my fork in her to shut her up when I had meals with my grandmother…at her preassigned table, of course. May we never have to deal with that in our lifetimes!
9Yes I agree that more people will and are dying everyday in the US from the flu.
10But.
This flu has the added bonus of potentially wreaking economic havoc all over the world.
Influenza was one of the first diseases described by Hippocrates, the father of medicine, yet many still consider it a scam by big pharma to sell shots. Influenza holds the record for most deaths from a pandemic, 40-50 million in 1918-1919. Flu is deadly, take it seriously.
11So, what’s the over/under for when Trump and his knuckle-draggers claim that COVID-19 was caused by Obamacare?
And Jane&PKM nailed it at #1. Trump will start blithering about how only he can save the US from it, and that he would have done it already but the Democrats in Congress instead waste time pursuing fake impeachment, etc.
12To bring a smile to your faces, visualize the entire White House staff getting coronavirus (not fatal, just incapacitating). And Trump will still be trying to ban the beer imports.
13My father was old enough to experience the 1919 Spanish Flu and combat in WW II. When asked he always said the Spanish Flu scared him more than combat because the Army gave him a rifle to shoot back with. There was nothing to do about the flu.
14The Coronavirus, and follow up diseases, might just finally kill off shopping malls and large sporting events.
15With widespread fear of infection people will likely embrace on line shopping and remote viewing more and more.
First outbreak tied to large crowds at sporting event may make stadiums large empty mauseleums to delusions of a “return to normalcy”
The covid-19 might just precipitate the next super recession.
Stay healthy though.
Vitamin C Vitamin D and resveratrol along with zinc, or copper or silver could help too.
Might want to stay away from grandma’s elderberry syrup though:
https://naturallysimple.org/living/2020/02/14/why-elderberry-might-not-be-the-best-adjunct/
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