Wuhan Flu
Trump Pitches 0% Withholding Tax for Rest of Year, to Ease Economy Through Virus Shock
Be safe, people.
Trump's Coronavirus AddressMore: Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson test positive in Australia.
Player tests positive, NBA suspends season indefinitely.
I think we can dispense with the Probably Nothing meme at this point.
If you didn’t watch the Rogan interview with Michael Osterholm I posted yesterday, you need to do so now. The first 20 minutes and last five are Coronavirus specific.
Hand washing and sanitizer is not effective as the virus is inhaled. Distancing from others is more important.
Lay away a couple of months of food staples if at all possible.
Expect drug shortages for your prescriptions. Check your supplies now.
A vaccine is two years away. Unless Trump orders it tested on prison inmates, per Rogan’s suggestion.
Most of us are going to get this, a significant number will be very sick, and some won’t make it.
You can now not travel from Paris to New York, but you can still get to Toronto from Beijing.
— Keean Bexte (@TheRealKeean) March 12, 2020
Wuhan Virus Exposes The Danger of Reliance Upon ChinaJust started.
He'll be banning all travel from Europe for 30 days, and I think he said he'd be blocking imports of goods from Europe, except from the UK.
The left pretends it's Totally Serious about stopping the outbreak, but then shriek about practical steps to reduce the spread of the Chinese flu, like travel restrictions.
Retweeted by the Washington Post's alleged "Fact Checker:" Whining that saving lives may entail reduced profits for merchants.
7 March 2020 Covid-19 California Quarantine & Exponential MathChina is not just a strategic competitor, it is a hostile foreign power. And by controlling the manufacture of critical healthcare supplies—not just iPhones and toasters—they hold significant power over this country and the rest of the world. And they know how to use it—especially in a time of crisis.
It’s Probably NothingWell, California quarantined a neighborhood where a Covid-19 case died. (h/t Gail). The video below also mentions it. This isn’t quite the same as other quarantines in that we don’t know if it was just temporary while they collected the guy and disinfected the area, or is it longer due to that whole neighborhood now being suspect and maybe tested?
This is exactly WHY you ALL ought to be prepared to be locked in your house. Perhaps for a day, or perhaps for 2 weeks, or perhaps for 2 months if things are spreading and sequential cases found.
It’s Probably NothingAnd then there is this little-known fact: Some Chinese researchers are in the habit of selling their laboratory animals to street vendors after they have finished experimenting on them.
You heard me right.
It’s Probably NothingJust like they do for the flu: Chinese medical staff request international medical assistance
The conditions and environment here in Wuhan are more difficult and extreme than we could ever have imagined. There is a severe shortage of protective equipment, such as N95 respirators, face shields, goggles, gowns, and gloves. The goggles are made of plastic that must be repeatedly cleaned and sterilised in the ward, making them difficult to see through. Due to the need for frequent hand washing, several of our colleagues’ hands are covered in painful rashes. As a result of wearing an N95 respirator for extended periods of time and layers of protective equipment, some nurses now have pressure ulcers on their ears and forehead. When wearing a mask to speak with patients, our voices are muted, so we have to speak very loudly. Wearing four layers of gloves is abnormally clumsy and does not work—we can’t even open the packaging bags for medical devices, so giving patients injections is a huge challenge. In order to save energy and the time it takes to put on and take off protective clothing, we avoid eating and drinking for 2 hours before entering the isolation ward. Often, nurses’ mouths are covered in blisters. Some nurses have fainted due to hypoglycaemia and hypoxia.
It’s not alarmist to keep a solid supply of non-perishables on hand.
It’s Probably NothingThe word is “admitted”. Chinese controlled WHO says…coronavirus death rate is 3.4% globally, higher than previously thought.
It’s Probably NothingAmerica just held a nationwide IQ test. Did you notice it?
Everyone who has said about coronavirus that, “It’s just the flu,” failed the IQ test. As did those who claim discussing coronavirus is “spreading panic.”
They are engaging in what Scott Adams calls Loserthink.[…]
You will almost certainly not die from the coronavirus.
If the coronavirus contagion and death rates are accurate, between one and three million Americans could die.
When you have a low risk of a pandemic with a death count exceeding the total number of Americans who died in World War II, you take precautions.
Reasonable minds can differ as to what those precautions are.
But if you’re not thinking about coronavirus in terms of fat tail risk, you’re not even allowed to be part of the conversation.
Related: Italy moves to Wuhan inspired quarantine status.
Dow Finishes Day at +1067 (Where's Kurt?);This is the most frightening disease I’ve ever encountered’ – virus expert Dr Richard Hatchett.
"This is the most frightening disease I've ever encountered in my career."
Richard Hatchett, the doctor leading efforts to find a vaccine for coronavirus, says it is much more lethal than normal flu. pic.twitter.com/1tjJ2ed0Hq
— Channel 4 News (@Channel4News) March 6, 2020
For those who were following Harry Chen, PhD before the account was yanked and the Wayback machine cleansed of his leaked Wuhan videos, it appears he’s back as a “parody” account.
Update: Italy vs Hong Kong.
Trump Pitches 0% Withholding Tax for Rest of Year, to Ease Economy Through Virus Shock
All bold mine.Wow, a thousand point surge.
I'm going to guess the media will name this The Joe Biden Rally 2.0.
Why did it jump so much?
Well, probably partly due to people figuring out that the media is deliberately trying to cause a panic based on a virus that, while dangerous for some, is probably going to turn out to be the Y2K of pandemics.
But also partly due to Trump's proposal of a payroll cut...
Be safe, people.