Judging by the air quality in China, you might as well say that everyone smokes.

Just mother natures way of keeping order and thinning the heard from time to time.

History shows it.

A good trial run for something really bad. Look what a simple virus has done?

How many people die from the regular flu every year.

Judging by the air quality in China, you might as well say that everyone smokes.

Interesting the way it seems to target the old.

I think I see a lesson there.

Everything targets the young and the old first, even the trash in our society target them first. On a positive note I heard today it is illegal to eat dogs and cats in China for now, so things should get better fast. What a s hole.

Everything targets the young and the old first, even the trash in our society target them first. On a positive note I heard today it is illegal to eat dogs and cats in China for now, so things should get better fast. What a s hole.

It was wild Bats in the open meat market that is said to have started this. They do taste like chicken when roasted.

How true!, having been in China/SE Asia the air pollution/quality is absolutely horrible, you have to experience it to comprehend how bad it really is, as far as smoking being a contributor to the virus's effects, Chinese cigarettes come in 2 variety's, low tar and high tar, the low tar cigs are like smoking unfiltered Camel cigs...horrible!

COVID-19 “might be” about three times more deadly than the 1918 “Spanish Flu”:

I say “might be” because with COVID-19 there may be large numbers with mild symptoms who are being left out of the infected count.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5911181/

Sample quote

The 1918–1921 influenza pandemic killed an estimated 0.8% of the Arizona population in three closely spaced consecutive waves. The mortality impact of the fall 1918 wave in Arizona lies in the upper range of previous estimates reported for other US settings and Europe, with a telltale age distribution of deaths concentrated among young adults.

End quote

My grandfather lived through the 1918 Flu as a WW-I soldier in training at training Camp Zachary Taylor in Louisville KY where several hundred of his fellow soldiers died.

About fifty yards away from the house I grew up in was a cemetery for a family that had previously owned the land. I started mowing that cemetery’s grass when I was about 9 years old. I noticed that half the graves were from the fall of 1918. My grandfather later explained to me about the 1918 Flu.

In 1976 when I was in college there was the Swine Flu danger when one odd H1N1 flu strain infected US soldier in training died after a 5 mile march. My grandfather long distance telephoned me over and over asking if I had gotten the vaccine yet. I was one of 48 million who got the Swine Flu shot and had zero bad reactions. Of the 48,000,000 vaccinated USA citizens a bit over 4000 filed a adverse reaction damage claim with the Federal government. Of this 4000 only 25 were for actual deaths.

Are chickens that scarce that they have to eat bats? I'll never understand people.

bats, cats, rats, they ALL tast like ChIcKeN when roasted.

Buffalo Bat Wings and a Corona Beer. Mmmmmm

Just heard from a very reliable source that this whole thing is a hoax. WOO! We're all good, folks.

No idea what you're referring to. I was going off of what I read from a major news organization.

First US death https://komonews.com/news/local/1-dead-from-coronavirus-in-king-county-health-officials-confirm


New cases https://komonews.com/news/local/two-new-cases-of-coronavirus-including-student-in-snohomish-county

I was at the grocery store yesterday. Some miserable shrew started coughing without covering her mouth, right in front of the yogurt section, when I was about 25 feet away. I turned around and walked away. No Greek yogurt in my lunch this week.

I tend to get a bit anal. I have told a few people in the past to cover their cough or sneeze. It can make them angry but I do not care. I will try to explain why if they will listen.

No idea what you're referring to. I was going off of what I read from a major news organization.

Looks like it's time to start getting your news elsewhere.

It was wild Bats in the open meat market that is said to have started this.

I retired in 2016 from GTE/Verizon/Frontier telephone company. All told I worked as Telephone Install and repair for 48 years.

As a telephone installer/repair tech we are ghosts when it comes to being allowed access to homes and business's. I have been allowed to go into that Adult Care center where this man died in Kirkland WA so many times. Not once did they log me in when I went in to work on an elderly customers ADSL or phone line.

My office that I reported to and picked up my work was in Kirkland WA. But many days my first job was to do a Fios TV and internet install in 'Mill Creek' area of Bothell WA. This is where that teenager was that just got sick this week. My next install could have been back in the Kirkland area. So I would be all over the map on a single day.

Many times I was out at a customers home working on a telephone trouble. The noise issue, static on the line, was inside the house and I would be going in every room to take the phone jacks apart trying to find the one causing the trouble. At about 20 minuets of being in the house, the lady would say "I am so glad you could come out on short notice. I need my phone line fixed as I am home with the flu and can not go out". What the heck??? Thanks lady for infecting me.
Now... I have three more jobs to do before the end of day. My next job could be in that Adult Care Center.....

So many times fellow workers would come to work sick. We had sick days but if you took more than 2% days sick in a year you would get a letter of concern. You had to file FMLA paper work to protect your job. A standard work year is 261 days. So 2% of that is 5.22 days. If you were sick 6 days in the calendar year you were under the heel of your boss.

And on another part of this Virus. A USPS postal worker in our major Postal Sorting center in the Seattle WA area has come up positive for Covad-19. This is where all the packages from China are sorted before being sent out to the city post offices.

The news just said there are 6 cases of Covad-19 victims in my King County WA alone. Those 6 plus the two in Snohomish County makes 8. ????

We are "GROUND ZREO" here in Washington State.

Now dead Chinese MD Li Wenliang tried to warn on Dec 30 of a spreading “like SARS” disease in 7 patients, so he must have seen the first victims in Wuhan in early December or late November.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-51403795

Since out of 100 people infected with COVID-19
80 just show flu like illness you can “walk around” with
and 2 mostly older men with other medical issues die,
it would seem an ever increasing number of the +80% “spreaders”
Have been leaving China to other countries since December.

It would not surprise me if the virus could survive on the cardboard surface of a package that stayed between 33 and 110 degrees F for numerous days.

I have read that COVID-19 can survive on a cell phone screen for 96 hours.

lysol, listerene, and alcohol is in abundance here.
jack danials and beer as well, so i'm not concerned.

So Social Security will remain solvent after all?

I have a 6mm sonic checking probe coming from across the pond. I better leave it on my back porch for a month to open it.

Just dip it in 1 gallon of E-85.

If thats not enough, light the E-85

We would have to become polygamist to help with all the extra women.

"You knew the job was dangerous when you took it, FRED".

We are mostly older men here on moparts.

We fix broken things.

We attempt to pass on knowledge to grandchildren and younger people in general.

2% fatalities of roughly
330 million people in the USA,
worst case,
would be
6,600,000 dead,
perhaps by November.

About 5,000,000 would be men.

How would the future of the USA change
if the knowledge and philosophy of 5 million men
ended quicker than normal?

Older men with damaged lungs in areas with less than average spare capacity of advanced hospital beds.

I immediately think: retired coal miners.

“Jack Danials”, for when the wife starts asking too many questions......

On a related note, IMO, anybody that has gotten on a Cruise ship within the last two? weeks, is an idiot.

Think about it this way - everyone is already on the same "Cruise Ship", we call it Earth.. LOL
- Art

Maybe I'm looking at it the wrong way, how about a COVID free cruise, everybody gets tested two weeks before boarding, then goes into strict quarantine for two weeks, and then gets on the cruise ship and stays at sea until this virus blows over?

Maybe I'm looking at it the wrong way, how about a COVID free cruise, everybody gets tested two weeks before boarding, then goes into strict quarantine for two weeks, and then gets on the cruise ship and stays at sea until this virus blows over?

More than 100 years ago our grandparents faced a pandemic with remarkable courage.
I hope a hundred years from now grandchildren will think that our generation faced a pandemic with courage.

Today a friend sent me a video of the Wuhan Market....unreal...I wish I could post it here MP4 player