Kung Flu
 

It's already spread around the world, but only killed in China so far.

There have been markets like that in China for thousands of years, so why now are these deadly viruses coming out of China.

Guessing in the past they were more limited because there wasn't a lot of travel and whatnot

Wuhan meat market video; if you love dogs, cats, or health, do not watch.

I saw an Asian woman wearing a face mask on my evening commute yesterday.

It's probably fine and doesn't mean anything.

We're all going to be ok.

I saw pictures of men with facemasks, spears and axes blocking the roads to towns/villages around Wuhan keeping anyone from entering.

This one seems to be getting a very different reaction inside China than SARS did--or am I just not remembering? It feels like a lot more people have died than they want to admit.

Your right, the announced body count seems to increase several times a day. Don't forget SARs was pre-iphone and pre-internet China. They are probably worrying about saving face, not harming the tourist trade, or people shunning their container shipments.

I'm just sticking this here to make it easier to find later. Not to freak anyone out. This thing is still nothing compared to the seasonal flu.

https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/a...23467b48e9ecf6

The Wuhan market video was relabeled because it's actually Indonesian.

Sorry folks, fog of war. Chinese news video came out that showed a pristine food market... the truth is somewhere in between

Thanks for the correction.

Wuhan Flu ain't nothin to fuck wit

I feel as if I have let my family down with that pun. :(

Your family forgives you... but we won't. http://cellar.org/2012/bwekk.gif

Right, the seasonal flu kills 35,000 Americans every year.

The Chinese market in Wuhan has been sterilized too.

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
 

Kirk: They're animals.

Spock: Jim, there is an historic opportunity here.

Kirk: Don't believe them. Don't trust them.

Spock: They're dying.

Kirk: Let them die!

Back in the Spanish Flu that killed 675,000 Americans as part of 20 to 50 million worldwide...

Interestingly enough, people at my workplace have started wearing dust masks to work this week.

Makes them feel better, but useless.

McCoy: Dammit, Jim! I'm a doctor, not a doct--wait--, I'm confused...

Badda bing, badda boom, instant hospital / detention center.

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So many prefab pieces so quickly makes me wonder if China stockpiles these for near instant detention centers?

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I wonder where that ventilation goes, hopefully a cleaning/sterilizing unit.

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Prefab rooms with two beds.

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I approve of the phrase Kung Flu.

I have, admittedly, a bit of an apocalyptic mindset. I maintain that it's not unhealthy, however, because I'm also very sanguine about it--I fully accept that this thing is going to be a global pandemic with millions of deaths, and there's no point in panicking because there's nothing anyone can do about it.

Anyway. A friend of mine came down sick yesterday with a mystery respiratory illness, and is now in the ER for what they are thinking is a sudden overwhelming bout of asthma (she doesn't have a history of asthma.) Meanwhile, one of our weekly appointments just canceled today because the doc is out sick. Yes, yes, confirmation bias, sure, sure. I'm seeing what I expect to see. But they've already had two cases of folks who tested negative, were released from quarantine, and later tested positive--meaning it doesn't show up as early in the incubation period as we thought it did. There's also now a suspected case of transmission through the airway system of an apartment building, between residents who live ten floors apart--meaning it spreads faster and farther than we thought it did.

I fully believe that this thing's already everywhere; we just don't know it yet. But like I said, I see no point in panicking. It'll be what it'll be.

It's kind of reassuring seeing the planet fight back...

Implies some sort of guiding intelligence to routine cause and effect.

True. Sloppy writing as a short cut for a long discussion of imbalanced natural systems.

I was wrong.

Well let's see what's supposed to happen now

A) We figure it is downright impossible to project the flow and future of a contagion since we had no idea either and move on

B) We dunk on you hard because it is so easy and satisfying to do

sorry dude the national mood says B

Yeah yeah let's jump on glatt everybody.



maybe they won't notice the shit I got wrong.

Y'all must be some of those whacko extremists I keep hearin' 'bout.

No, you weren't.


Again, John Hopkins...

Infections

COVID-19: Approximately 1,286,409 cases worldwide; 337,933 cases in the U.S. as of Apr. 6, 2020.

Flu: Estimated 1 billion cases worldwide; 9.3 million to 45 million cases in the U.S. per year.


Deaths

COVID-19: Approximately 70,356 deaths reported worldwide; 9,653 deaths in the U.S., as of Apr. 6, 2020.

Flu: 291,000 to 646,000 deaths worldwide; 12,000 to 61,000 deaths in the U.S. per year.

Mitigation

COVID-19: Everybody must stay home for 6 weeks-2 months due to its mortality and the economy is utterly flattened causing chaos

Flu: Some people get vaccinated

A good reason for making mistakes is to learn. Learn why (and what) information sources are not credible.

Currently easy to identify are many examples of information sources that promote propaganda - deny reality. For example: Compliation of ....

Numbers back in January made obvious that this was extremely contagious - worse than SARs. One obvious fact back then - infected people are contagious long before symptoms exist. Such little facts made the threat obvious. And were only discussed by honest information sources.

Man makes mistakes. Most learning comes from first acknowledging and then learning from those mistakes.

We've heard that at least Bats and Pangolins can be carriers of the virus. Nothing makes Bats sick and no idea what can or can't make Pangolins sick.

Now they announced two Amur Tigers and three African Lions, in the Bronx Zoo have a dry cough and one Tiger tested positive. Of course any furry critter could spread the virus but they didn't definitely say big cats could contract the disease when exposed.

This makes me wonder if your pets are at risk of getting sick as well as making you sick?

Honey, where's kitty? Last I saw she was asleep in the baby's bassinet.

They already had a case of a dog in China testing "weakly positive" way back when. The dog even died--but it was also 17 years old and stressed because its elderly owner had passed away, so no one looked much further into it. The last time an animal was really implicated in spreading a virus, the Chinese government seized and slaughtered some 20 million chickens, so I get the impression they're just trying to keep animal transmission, to the extent that it exists, on a low profile. Won't do any good to traumatize an already devastated population by murdering their pets, nor would it help for those who are less attached to become afraid and suddenly start dumping their pets on the streets en masse.

You know what happens now, yeah?

We kill all dogs & cats, replace them with apes who revolt and put us in cages.

'Calling, Doctor Zaius...Doctor Zaius to the vivisectionary...'

Not just dogs and cats, all pets except Bob Guccione's.

Just be sure to boil your dog soup for at least five minutes. To kill off the virus.

Huh? Sorry, with this virus going on I've been hanging out a lot in the Forbidden Zone.

Wet market? Not if it's going into cans....