China Exports Deadly New Virus

Nice “Contagion” reference.

SARS + AIDS = SARAIDS

Chrissy Metz has been barred from travelling.

They always start there!

Over a thousand likely infected already.

Contagion reference? I thought it referred to her vagina candle!

r5

But there are a billion and a half Chinese, so that is nothing.

R7, let's see how many are infected next week.

r9

Still if a million are infected that is the same as 2,200 people in America getting something.

It's a holiday weekend, just like in Contagion. It will spread as people return from traveling. Off to get supplies.

[quote] China Exports Deadly New Virus

Trump will slap a tariff on it.

Yes Chinese New Year when half a billion are traveling. Might be their last journeys. Horrifying!!!

I was referring to Martin Luther King, R13.

4 dead. How many tomorrow? This is Contagion!

The numbers are all fabricated. There are lots of undetected cases. The real situation is much more severe. I am surprised that it hasn’t been headline here in North America

We could easily get a deadly influenza virus as in 1917-1919. I heard about a town in the American West that quarantined itself, refusing entry to everyone. They eventually caught it, though. It came in with the mail.

My grandfather caught another worldwide epidemic disease. It followed the influenza outbreak. It was “encephalitis lethargica”, or sleeping sickness. They don’t know why/how it infected so many people, and why it subsided, and you don’t hear much about it.

Anything could happen and in a matter of weeks, it could be all over the globe.

Looks like all of the ridiculous surgical masks the Chinese wear don't do much after all.

I got a news alert from CNN just a little while ago and DL fave David Muir was reporting on it tonight.

All of these airport clips are reminding me of 12 Monkeys. I looooved that movie.

It's reached the United States! Watch out Washington DLers.

Surprised it showed up in the U.S. first but know that Canada will be next or probably just hasn't been detected or admitted to here yet. SARS was a frinking nightmare here in Toronto. Maybe Hongcouver can be the Canadian epicentre THIS time :( That would be one way to handle the problem called Markle... Good times :)

I'm flying to Hawaii tomorrow. Should I be concerned?

I'll take your stuff, r23 and your little dog too.

I’ve just started 12 Monkeys now.

R18 those masks are worn all over Asia if you're coughing and sneezing - not to protect oneself.

Its to stop hacking your lungs out and shooting snot at others.

I'm starting to get freaked out.

Something else to be tarrifed I take it?

Uh oh:

Hopefully Trump catches it..,

Trump will put a tariff on the virus.

Maybe he can sign his big China trade deal in Wuhan.

R16 Sadly you are correct. Some virologists puts the estimate of infected to be anywhere between 5K-7K. Many do not show symptoms straight away. Incubation time is 10-14 days.

Let’s hope it makes its way to Davos right into Dump and Murdoch’s wrinkly gross faces.

It would warm my icy heart to see that Orange buffoon germaphobe get levelled by a Chinese virus.

What is the R knot?

Friday is my shopping day. I think I'll stock up on canned goods just in case this turns into another 1918.

There's nothing Dataloungers enjoy more than a good pandemic scare.

Is ELE-OP still around with his apocalypse bunker?

R26, you're wrong. These masks are part fashion and part superstition.

R22, are you really dragging the royals into this thread, you’re fucking obsessed. You’ve already got 1000000 royal threads to choose from. Stop taking over and attempting to ruin this site as some sort of protest over a black princess.

Get over it.

While almost 60000-80000 obese Americans died from flu and its complication every year. Tragic!

China's pants are getting a little snug too, R40.

I'm here R37. Just bought out the soup and canned vegetable aisle at Vons.

r35, it's R nought, Kate, dear.

R42, is that really you, ELEOP? Every great hero requires a nemesis. A foe. An archenemy. And I’m yours. But I don’t think that’s you, and I have other people to bother, so I need proof!

Ps. I also have a cabinet full of grocery cans but it’s a winter thing here in New England. Also lots of bottled tap water stored in case my service delivery isn’t reliable, because there have been incidents.

In Puerto Rico, the head of some FEMA org, or similar, was just fired because an old, untouched warehouse, intended to be used a year or more ago, full of stuff, was just found. Here’s the thing I don’t get: there were expired bottles of water. How is that possible? Is it for fear of the plastic in the container leaching into it?

Being the government, they probably trashed it in front of thirsty people who normally would eat food in 10 year-old cans, as I would, frankly. I was raised not to waste food in a big family where it was scarce, sometimes. Good food was, anyway.

But expired water?

RIP DL eldergays if this deadly novo-coronavirus ever gets to you first. Any stuff I can have after you croak though?

[bold]Coronavirus Deaths Are So Far Mostly Older Men, Many With Previous Health Issues[/bold]

An examination of the information provided by the government about the initial deaths show a disease that has thus far largely killed older men, many of who had underlying health problems.

Most had gone to the hospital with a fever and a cough, though at least three did not have fevers when they were admitted, according to the health commission’s statement.

Among the first 17 victims were 13 men and four women. All were identified only by their last names. The youngest was a 48-year-old woman, Yin, who died on Monday, more than a month after her symptoms were first recorded. The oldest cases were two 89-year-old men who died on Saturday and Sunday. The median age was 75.

Has Elliot Gould found a way to grow the virus yet?

no

It sounds crazy that they are closing and isolating the cities where there are outbreaks. Or trying to do so, anyway.

In Wohan, they are trying to build a 1000 bed hospital in something like 4 days. That makes it sound very serious.

It's not a real hospital, it's a temporary building with 1,000 beds stuffed into it. It's like calling M*A*S*H a "hospital." It is only in the very technical sense.

Another reason for "no Asians" on Grindr.

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CNN reported that the virus can be spread before the person is symptomatic. That means our airport screenings are useless.

Fluck!

I just keep thinking about this scene from Outbreak

In the early 1900s, Mary Melton, known as "Typhoid Mary" was the fist person, in the United States, identified as an asymptomatic carrier of the pathogen associated with typhoid fever. She infected 128 people; five died.

A CDC representative says the United States may need to re-evaluate its strategy in containing the highly infectious Wuhan virus. Surely, based on historical medical records, the CDC must know that people, who don't exhibit any symptoms, can be contagious. They should also know that waiting for someone to show signs and symptoms is too late....they've already infected others.

The Wuhan virus may be the next "Spanish flu". Likewise, the virus is adapting quickly. It doesn't matter if snakes or animals caused the coronavirus outbreak. What matters is stopping it from becoming a pandemic.

Fake news. China isn't known for its health issues.

R51, go fuck yourself. Asians in North America have nothing to do with it

It’s virtually impossible to quarantine anything today.

It has just begun, it's spreading in Illinois

This is awfully exciting. It just seems like a movie right now, not a real event with real people suffering. I think it’ll feel like a kick in the face when shit gets real for me.

The number of infections is growing by 1000% a week. At the moment there are 12,000 cases; by this time next week there might be 120,000.

R62 Doubt it. Measures being taken outside China have so far proven effective (most of the cases of Chinese nationals who arrived from Wuhan a fortnight ago) and no deaths internationally.

Within China most of the deaths and new cases have been in the region around Wuhan. Deaths in Beijing and Shanghai remain tiny (I think one or two a piece).

China is taking the lockdown measures seriously. I'd say the biggest danger is the virus mutating but keep in mind it could disappear within a month and then resurface 6 months later and be even worse.

How many deaths now? Too bad, the number isn't as high as that of obese American who die of flu every year. MEH! When it reaches 60k, we can talk about epidemic. And this will stop when spring arrives.

I hope it keeps spreading and the death toll keeps rising. I will never stop rooting for the apocalypse. Humanity needs something like this.

It's not like there's a whole lot of good to stick around for.

The first real Beer Flu thread

DL troll is gonna DL troll. No gay man gives two shits about randomly resurrecting old threads. We see you.

Can we just shut the damn door into and out of China please.

R63’s post did not age well.

was this the first dl post about covid?