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How concerned are you about the Coronavirus?

  • No worries - it's all media hype

    Votes: 20 21.7%
  • Passively watching it as part of the news headlines

    Votes: 28 30.4%
  • Actively following it with focused interest

    Votes: 15 16.3%
  • Taking steps to assure myself and my family are protected

    Votes: 29 31.5%
  • Skeered it will get me as soon as it gets to my county

    Votes: 0 0.0%

Coronavirus - what is your personal concern threshold?

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#1 ·
At what point do you personally take the Coronavirus serious and change your daily routines?

I suppose we should take all viral outbreaks seriously, but most seem to last a few weeks then taper off. However, the Coronavirus (becoming more known as Covid-19) seems to be gaining steam rather than fading away. Then again, numbers could drop like a rock tomorrow.

Speaking just for myself, I have four thresholds in mind.

The first in terms of devoting reading time (attention) to it was clusters outside of China. That one has been tripped several times over. It is now in more than a dozen countries.

The next “heads up” threshold for me will be activity in a cluster of people in our country. Say, the homeless in California or Washington State. How long would a homeless person walk the streets before seeking medical care? However long that might be, the cases in the US will grow exponentially from there.

After that my personal trigger will be an active case in my state. At that point, I’ll start daily protocols to monitor the local impacts.

The last one will be a case in my county. I work in the public, so when (if) we have a case here, I'll have to go on limited exposure status in terms of who I see daily. That will mean knowing them and their routines.

The news is beginning to hint this was a breech in a lab in China. Was it accidental, or did they release it intentionally? The speculation and conspiracy theories are gathering momentum.

Finally, I seem to be getting better news from sources outside our mainstream US media. That’s sad, but it’s the world we live in.

This story at BBC is one of the best I’ve read.

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-51048366
 
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#2 ·
No change here. I don't go to walmart or really anywhere with people I don't know, work nights, skeleton crew. Stay in shape for 60, running average 15 miles a week, weight train etc...outside, fresh air mostly. Have a silver biotics generator, and take colloidal silver and olive leaf extract daily, as well as vitamins and supplements. Got through a mastoid bone,jaw, ear, spine and skin infection last spring...what doesn't kill ya'....:cool:
 
#6 ·
Passively watching, no real further prep steps to take.

I’m wondering about non-medical ripple effects:
1 - What happens to supplies of chinese-origin products if they keep the factories closed as long as it takes to be sure the epidemic is behind them?

2 - What happens to people’s fear of taking possession/delivery of chinese-origin products if they don’t wait that long before reopening the factories?
 
#11 ·
I think everyone has been waiting and watching for the big one. Luckily despite hype we haven’t had anything too crazy.
The 1918 influenza pandemic (January 1918 – December 1920; colloquially known as Spanish flu) was an unusually deadly influenza pandemic, It infected 500 million people around the world, or about 27% of the then world population of 1800 or 1900 million, including people on remote Pacific islands and in the Arctic. The death toll is estimated to have been 40 million to 50 million, and possibly as high as 100 million, making it one of the deadliest epidemics in human history.
 
#13 ·
A reminder, FWIW: Anyone living in the US is at much greater risk at present, and for the foreseeable future, from influenza. Current CDC estimates include more than 280,000 hospitalizations and about 16,000 deaths in the US this season from influenza, including more than 100 pediatric deaths. So, if you’re worried about COVID-19, I just gotta ask—did you get your flu shot this year? And what steps have you taken to reduce your risks of influenza? (And BTW—those steps are pretty much exactly what experts would recommend to reduce risk of contracting COVID-19.)
 
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yeah, I hear the states flu death rates on the local radio station and am amazed Blumenthal and Murphy haven't come out with some "common sense flu control" laws.
FWIW, haven't got the shot for a bunch of years. The last time I got the shot they mentioned it wasn't effective against the new strain, but was better than nothing....as mentioned above, I pretty much avoid people and work at staying healthy. My infection last spring was I believe due to running in 35 degree F weather, and it started raining. Got some rain in my ear, and the whole thing started with that ear going into instant meltdown that night.
 
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#18 ·
I was watching the news passively until a couple of days ago when local TV news here started to talk about contamination in the north part of Italy, so far we got 100 cases and two italians dead. I was listening WGN and they talked about Italy, I've been impressed.
I wonder if this virus will affect my plan to be back in the US next August. :mad:
 
#19 ·
Coronavirus, flu, colds, germs in general; all come to me to die.

If you have a healthy immune system then germs don't stand a chance.

If you live an unhealthy life then you are asking for germs, any germs, to kill and destroy you.

It's your life, your choice!!!
 
#22 ·
I hope you are right Dave. The media did play the SARS virus up pretty big. I am concerned about this coronavirus though. It has already caused a large number of deaths and seems to be spreading fast. I am not ready to run out and buy a bunch of gas masks but I am being careful to wash my hands after going to public places, any place where I have to touch something that a lot of people have touched. One place that especially worries me is Doctor's offices. That is the place where all the sick people go. Anyway, I do what I can (reasonably) to avoid it and if it gets me it gets me.
 
#23 ·
I suppose, the remoteness of our town, is a blessing,.On saying that though we are the crossroad of Australia East to West and South to North! All Rail and Road transport comes through here but the tourist season is almost over. Working in a supermarket and handling Trolleys (Carts ) the amount that I do, I am very consensus of hygiene! Especially when you see and smell most of our customers! How anyone can smell so dead and still be walking amazes me! I wear disposable gloves and rub barrier cream into my hands and am still constantly washing my hands
 
#24 ·
The thing I fear about COVID-19 isn’t it making landfall in the US and giving us great grief, but rather that it gets a foothold in Africa and becomes an uncontained, uncontrollable wildfire in a part of the world where there’s a lot of people and simply not enough high-level medical facilities/capability. In a developed nation, the virus can be a major problem, but let it loose in Africa? Yikes.

Oh—and doorknobs. Don’t forget to wipe down the &^@%¡ñ& doorknobs.
 
#25 ·
Over the weekend several of our elected officials and our Governor got the resettlement at Anniston, Alabama nixed. My thought is that it's a stopgap measure for PR purposes. Otherwise, if it gets here and when it shows up, no amount of politicking will resolve the dilemma.
 
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I sure hope they are able to contain this virus. From what I’ve read many believe the origin is from people eating bat soup...look tasty? View attachment 195335
Those folks have been eating stuff like that, that would cause other probs for centuries. This virus is patented. What's that tell ya? Like Dark Knight is sayin, this is another distractive media event before the inevitable in a last ditch effort to buy time.
 
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YUCK!!!!!
 
#38 ·
My wife and I trade off saying prayers every other night with our daughter before bed and one night I overheard my daughter praying about the corona virus situation. The next day I asked her if she was concerned about it and of course she was. I pointed out to her that at that time, there were supposedly 10,000 cases world wide and I think it was maybe 800 deaths. I then pointed out to her that I had recently read that the flu, in just the United states alone was responsible for between 3500 and 80,000 deaths per year. that kinda put it into perspective for her. We don't go through each day worrying about the flu.

It is also interesting to me that the entire world, including me were concerned about SARS when that was a thing and it paled in comparison to where corona virus has already gone, which means it was even far more insignificant compared to the average flu.

I am tired of the media and pretty much everyone else trying to manipulate people. The flu is gonna kill you, corona virus is gonna kill you, we have only 12 years before the earth is uninhabitable, guns are walking the streets on their own, mowing down millions of innocent humans every day etc etc. More importantly, I am super sick of people trying to scare and manipulate the younger generations.
 
#41 ·
...I pointed out to her that at that time, there were supposedly 10,000 cases world wide and I think it was maybe 800 deaths. I then pointed out to her that I had recently read that the flu, in just the United states alone was responsible for between 3500 and 80,000 deaths per year. that kinda put it into perspective for her. We don't go through each day worrying about the flu.

It is also interesting to me that the entire world, including me were concerned about SARS when that was a thing and it paled in comparison to where corona virus has already gone, which means it was even far more insignificant compared to the average flu.

I am tired of the media and pretty much everyone else trying to manipulate people. The flu is gonna kill you, corona virus is gonna kill you, we have only 12 years before the earth is uninhabitable, guns are walking the streets on their own, mowing down millions of innocent humans every day etc etc. More importantly, I am super sick of people trying to scare and manipulate the younger generations.
Even if media outlets were all well-intentioned (which I don't believe they are), they still have the pressure of being 24-hour active nowadays. This didn't used to be the case, but now & for the last 2-3 decades, it has been. Even if they didn't have an agenda, they still have to rope viewers in 24/7/365, and that takes drama and emotional spin.

Best way I've heard it put was in relation to financial markets and financial news. Heard Nick Murray one time say that "the media can provide only headlines, not history", and that sums it up well imo.
 
#39 ·
Personally I wouldn't put it past China to experiment with a biological agent for some covert reason & have it escape containment. But what I've seen is China underestimated this virus.
I'm thinking that it can be transmitted without contact. This very well might be media hype,
but I believe most of the new cases are from people that don't want to disclose they're whereabouts until they're in a serious state to seek medical help.
Just curious….has anyone read the back of a Lysol can? Do you know that out of all the germs & viruses it kills Corona virus is one of them? Yep I read it my self.
So if I have a case of corona with lime as a vaccine & a can of Lysol as a disinfectant, I should be GTG.:D
 
#43 ·
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The White House is asking Congress for $2.5 billion to respond to the coronavirus illness known as COVID-19 that has killed more than 2,600 people in mainland China, but House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called the request inadequate.

The administration's supplemental funding plan was designed "to accelerate vaccine development, support preparedness and response activities and to procure much-needed equipment and supplies," said Office of Management and Budget spokeswoman Rachel Semmel.

Pelosi, D-California, said in a statement that the administration's request is “is long overdue and completely inadequate to the scale of this emergency.”

She also accused the Trump administration of leaving vacant critical positions at the National Security Council and Department of Homeland Security.

"And now, the president is compounding our vulnerabilities by seeking to ransack funds still needed to keep Ebola in check," Pelosi said.

"The president should not be raiding money that Congress has appropriated for other life-or-death public health priorities," she said, suggesting that the House would move forward with its own plan.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-New York, signaled his disapproval as well, saying the effort was "too little too late."

"That President Trump is trying to steal funds dedicated to fight Ebola — which is still considered an epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo — is indicative of his towering incompetence and further proof that he and his administration aren't taking the coronavirus crisis as seriously as they need to be," Schumer said in a statement.

...and the Democrats can’t help themselves from trying to make political points.
 
#44 · (Edited)
I'm not paranoid BUT ain't stupid either. It' s out there and looks like it's stayin for a while. I'll stay away from crowds and certainly won't buy China products ( that looks like I'll buy NOTHING :) then). The first thing I did do is DUMP my stock portfolio last Thursday (Yes, capitalist here- suggest "you" look into "your" financials too). Other than that, all's good.
 
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