It has begun.... (COVID-19)

Then, look at the press, they don't seem to be concerned either.
I'm amazed they're still letting the press in the room. For the last week or so here in the UK the governement daily briefings normally have 2/3 people in the room (spread very far apart) taking questions from journalists over a video call.

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Heard the New Jersey Governer put out a call today for retired COBOL programmers to help speed up the ancient unemployement system - @jcgriff2 how rusty are your COBOL skills?!



Hope everyone is staying safe.
 
People are putting covers on the windows of bars and cafes and drinking until late into the night (or until the police separates them). (Some of)The Croats are insane.

The large majority of us is fine and unaffected, because of our health system that has gone overboard with an extreme set of measures and locked everything down early on.
 
Yeah, and I'll just grab one from my mask collection! NOT! I'll have to cobble something together since everything at Amazon says will arrive between May 22 and June 22!

This place is supposed to make the best masks Cambridge Mask Co. Their site

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Although it could drag on that long...

A Guy
 
Thanks for the PDF.

All I know is that New Jersey is unfortunately #2 in the US - behind New York.
 
If not for my degrading health, I would definitely apply.

I did put my name in to New Jersey, New York, Delaware and Pennsylvania to become a COBOL/JCL volunteer.

New Jersey's unemployment IBM mainframe system is 40-50 years old and needs a ton of updating.
 
If not for my degrading health, I would definitely apply.

I did put my name in to New Jersey, New York, Delaware and Pennsylvania to become a COBOL/JCL volunteer.

New Jersey's unemployment IBM mainframe system is 40-50 years old and needs a ton of updating.

That's pretty cool to sign up for a Volunteer. How does one update 40-50 years of COBAL? 🙃
 
Scientists Are Tired of Explaining Why The COVID-19 Virus Was Not Made in a Lab

It's a rumour that just won't die. When asked whether the COVID-19 virus was genetically engineered in a lab, scientists have already said "no" rather firmly, but the matter of the new coronavirus' origin is unlikely to be put to rest so easily.


Discussions around this subject have become even more pertinent since US government intelligence officials are reportedly investigating the potential source of the pandemic, focussing on theories that it may have originated in a laboratory, despite all evidence pointing to SARS-CoV-2 not being human-made.

"All evidence so far points to the fact the COVID-19 virus is naturally derived and not man-made," explains immunologist Nigel McMillan from the Menzies Health Institute Queensland.

Scientists Are Tired of Explaining Why The COVID-19 Virus Was Not Made in a Lab

A Guy
 
Recovered, almost: China's early patients unable to shed coronavirus

Dressed in a hazmat suit, two masks and a face shield, Du Mingjun knocked on the mahogany door of a flat in a suburban district of Wuhan on a recent morning.

A man wearing a single mask opened the door a crack and, after Du introduced herself as a psychological counsellor, burst into tears.

“I really can’t take it anymore,” he said. Diagnosed with the novel coronavirus in early February, the man, who appeared to be in his 50s, had been treated at two hospitals before being transferred to a quarantine centre set up in a cluster of apartment blocks in an industrial part of Wuhan.

Why, he asked, did tests say he still had the virus more than two months after he first contracted it?

Recovered, almost: China's early patients unable to shed coronavirus

A Guy
 
Scientists Are Tired of Explaining Why The COVID-19 Virus Was Not Made in a Lab



Scientists Are Tired of Explaining Why The COVID-19 Virus Was Not Made in a Lab

A Guy
It's not about being man made or genetically engineered. Scientist believe the virus was being studied in bats in a lab in Wuhan.
PolitiFact - What we know about the source of the coronavirus pandemic

Recovered, almost: China's early patients unable to shed coronavirus



Recovered, almost: China's early patients unable to shed coronavirus

A Guy
I'm not sure why this is such a mystery, the Epstein-Barr (mononucleosis) virus presents the same. If you had mono as a child you can go get the test today and it will be positive for Epstein-Barr virus. Same with Varicella zoster virus which causes Chicken Pox and later in life presents as Shingles.
 
“Firstly,” he said in an email, coronaviruses “are not the type of virus group that reactivates like Epstein-Barr or Ebola.” The Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV), which is extremely common and best known for its ability to cause mono, becomes latent in the body after an infection and can reactivate, though it does not always cause symptoms, according to the CDC. Ebola has also been known to become latent and then reactivate. Another virus with this ability is the varicella-zoster virus (VZV), which causes chicken pox and, when it reactivates, shingles. Neither EBV, Ebola, nor VZV belongs to the class of viruses known as coronaviruses, which SARS-CoV-2 belongs to.

https://coronavirus.medium.com/what-we-know-about-coronavirus-and-reactivation-a32cb59ad496

A Guy
 
I'm wondering why I don't remember the 2009 Swine Flu. I don't remember the run on masks, sanitizer, TP, etc. I look back at my Google photos and none of us were wearing masks. Obviously it was bad. Weird.

Thanks @A Guy for the cool graphic.
 
I don't remember the 2009 Swine Flu either, although I was in Southern California for 8 months - mostly business.
 
I don't remember the 2009 Swine Flu either, although I was in Southern California for 8 months - mostly business.
California is where it started in April of 2009. Strange. The Fed government declared a State of Emergency in December of 2009. The more I research about it, the less I remember.
 
I don't remember the Swine Flu in 2009 either.
I do remember the 2013 flu season as being bad. The flu vaccine was not matched correctly to the type of flu that was infecting people. The local hospitals had tents for the overflow patients. We had moved my mother to an assisted living facility in the Spring of 2012. When we went to visit her in 2013, instead of hugging and kissing her, I showed her how to do a fist bump. I did not want to give the flu to my 92 year old mother!

I guess we remember those flu seasons in which we are directly impacted.
 

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