The first case of community transmission of the coronavirus has just occurred in northern California. It was just confirmed tonight.
This is the situation that knowledgable people who deal with viruses and epidemics warned the President might occur soon. They warned him that this was the situation that the medical / scientific community was afraid of. It's also the situation that the President downplayed and refused to accept in it eventuality.
Trump and Pense are such fools. He's so busy gaming the Stock Market and is incapable of comprehending the danger.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Gaming a crashing stock market one could add. The dummy-in-chief consistently fails to understand the connections with ecology and economy. When the natural order goes so will the economic one.
JackPedigo
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Feb 27, 2020
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To put an idiot that is virulently anti-science in charge of running the coronavirus pandemic is scary. The first thing he did was to limit the public access to the experts that are attempting to head off the pandemic. Pense placed an information cap on all on infomation coming out in an attempt to politically control what we know.
t1nick
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Feb 27, 2020
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When the number of deaths attributed to coronavirus come anywhere near this year's version of the flu, I will be concerned. According to the CDC, the flu has already caused an estimated 26 million illnesses, 250,000 hospitalizations and 14,000 deaths this season, and this is just in the U.S. alone! Coronavirus has infected less than 100,000 of which approximately 2,000 have perished, worldwide. A little more perspective would help here.
p-nullifidian
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Feb 27, 2020
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The question lies in both transmissability and lethality.. Both are equally transmissible at about the same rate. But the flu only kills about 1/10 of a percent of its victims (it's more universal, that's why the higher numbers). While coronavirus kills at a rate of 2%. A whole magnitude of lethality higher.
@t1nick You may be right, however the death rate, espcially in men, may be due in part to the wide popularity of smoking. Smoking (along with other compromised conditions) is a risk factor in this, as weall as many other diseases.
I'm not so sure about that correlation. It may be true in some instances, but I do not think at this time it is a determine factor.
The primary factor is that this strain is what is called a, "novel virus". That means that humans never having encountered it previously, have no immunity to it. There are individuals that are passive carriers in that they have a natural resistance, but in general, the human host is not prepared for this particular virus. Thats6why the 2% mortality rate is as high as it is.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Let’s hope enough of us get to the polls and vote these fuckers out.
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