Corona virus cases will skyrocket in a week.

yes but you have to look at the health of the world population at the time. The level of "medical knowledge/care." As well as how they went about trying to solve it. People thought it was caused by witches. So they killed the cats, thinking witches familiar, which in turn let the rat population sky rocket. The rats were the carriers of the disease. So bit differences in the two mortality rates.

 

Yes, you are right of course.

My comments are only to slow people down a bit. I'm not trying to scare anyone, just using a bit of what I learned in history class and what I hear from my step-dad.

It's not a matter of us just getting the virus, beating it, then it's gone. You let those things get mature and get strong, they come back. It's unknown if this is happening at all, I can't find any intel about mutated strands but they can come back stronger and you are weakened from fighting off the first strand, then the second strand gets you.

That's what the Spanish flu did and why it was so deadly.

There's a lot of over-reacting and under-reacting to the problem. The end result is the virus is still spreading rapidly with hundreds of new confirmed cases every couple hours and a few nut jobs have mountains of toilet paper in their garage for no reason!!

 

S strain in Wuhan (original, as far as we currently know)

L strain in Italy (so far, at least)

L strain has a higher kill rate than S strain.

 

I believe that your post actually supports my prior assertions. My point exactly, they had basically no medical care and it "only" killed up to half of everyone (the plague). And we know that for many people the coronavirus ends up being relatively tame. Contrast that to the Plague that pretty much killed everyone that got it afaik.

 

Don't tell anyone I told you this, because I got it from a source close to the origin of the virus and they don't want to cause a panic.

This virus is actually an altered and more subtle version of the T-Virus.

I'm just hoping it does not transfer to the dogs and cats.

 

Already been to one shipper with a questionnaire about coronavirus.

Whatever makes you people feel safe, haha.

 

Here you go........

Read below: From a doctor on the corona front lines in Italy. Let us help our healthcare workers however we can . . .

Dr. Macchini posted a description on Facebook of what the hospital was like on March 6 vs. what it was like a week before. Below is a condensed translation of his post (which is written in Italian and can be read in its entirety here).

"After much thought about whether and what to write about what is happening to us, I felt that silence was not responsible.

I will therefore try to convey to people far from our reality what we are living in Bergamo in these days of Covid-19 pandemic. I understand the need not to create panic, but when the message of the dangerousness of what is happening does not reach people, I shudder.

I myself watched with some amazement the reorganization of the entire hospital in the past week, when our current enemy was still in the shadows: the wards slowly "emptied", elective activities were interrupted, intensive care were freed up to create as many beds as possible.

All this rapid transformation brought an atmosphere of silence and surreal emptiness to the corridors of the hospital that we did not yet understand, waiting for a war that was yet to begin and that many (including me) were not so sure would ever come with such ferocity.

I still remember my night call a week ago when I was waiting for the results of a swab. When I think about it, my anxiety over one possible case seems almost ridiculous and unjustified, now that I've seen what's happening. Well, the situation now is dramatic to say the least.

The war has literally exploded and battles are uninterrupted day and night. But now that need for beds has arrived in all its drama. One after the other the departments that had been emptied fill up at an impressive pace. The boards with the names of the patients, of different colours depending on the operating unit, are now all red and instead of surgery you see the diagnosis, which is always the ###### same: bilateral interstitial pneumonia.

Now, explain to me which flu virus causes such a rapid drama. And while there are still people who boast of not being afraid by ignoring directions, protesting because their normal routine is"temporarily" put in crisis, the epidemiological disaster is taking place.

And there are no more surgeons, urologists, orthopedists, we are only doctors who suddenly become part of a single team to face this tsunami that has overwhelmed us. Cases are multiplying, they arrive at a rate of 15-20 admissions per day all for the same reason. The results of the swabs now come one after the other: positive, positive, positive. Suddenly the E.R. is collapsing.

Reasons for the access always the same: fever and breathing difficulties, fever and cough, respiratory failure. Radiology reports always the same: bilateral interstitial pneumonia, bilateral interstitial pneumonia, bilateral interstitial pneumonia. All to be hospitalized.

Someone already to be intubated and go to intensive care. For others it's too late... Every ventilator becomes like gold: those in operating theatres that have now suspended their non-urgent activity become intensive care places that did not exist before.

The staff is exhausted. I saw the tiredness on faces that didn't know what it was despite the already exhausting workloads they had. I saw a solidarity of all of us, who never failed to go to our internist colleagues to ask "what can I do for you now?"

Doctors who move beds and transfer patients, who administer therapies instead of nurses. Nurses with tears in their eyes because we can't save everyone, and the vital parameters of several patients at the same time reveal an already marked destiny.

There are no more shifts, no more hours. Social life is suspended for us. We no longer see our families for fear of infecting them. Some of us have already become infected despite the protocols.

Some of our colleagues who are infected also have infected relatives and some of their relatives are already struggling between life and death. So be patient, you can't go to the theatre, museums or the gym. Try to have pity on the myriad of old people you could exterminate.

We just try to make ourselves useful. You should do the same: we influence the life and death of a few dozen people. You with yours, many more. Please share this message. We must spread the word to prevent what is happening here from happening all over Italy."

 

You've got 2 basketball players and a movie star.

And the world is starting to shut down.

 

I think is understandable that people panic because for one thing , the gov is lying about everything, so people don’t know what to believe anymore.
The other I noticed when I went to Costco the other day , is that people , in general are so #### selfish. Very greedy and inconsiderate...... I have not words to describe these type of humans .
Why these people buy so much #### when there are other people that don’t have anything???? These people don’t #### get it that all of us are in this situation??? That we should take care of each other , help each other ....... what the F has to do the virus with toilet paper and water ??!!! Come on !!!!! We are in this world together and half of the population suffers , you too will suffer the consequences.... stop with this MFkr selfish behavior.

 

Sounds awful....

This is what the virus gives you.

Interstitial pneumonia is a disease in which the mesh-like walls of the alveoli become inflamed. The pleura (a thin covering that protects and cushions the lungs and the individual lobes of the lungs) might become inflamed as well.