Coronavirus (Covid-19)

I was with some friends early this morning and talking about panic! I was asked what would I do if ICBMs with nuclear warheads were headed my way? I said I would get my lawn chair out, grab a beer (something I am not allowed to drink) and sit! I live so close to Langley AFB (HQ Air Combat Command) that when the fireworks started I will have a ringside seat! I have no desire to live in a post-nuclear world!

 

I am almost the same way, there are 4 targets close enough that if they cared in their desire to end our Military Second strike we are good as dead. Hand me that bottle and let's pick a spot. The blast wave will arrive with enough overpressure to destroy the body, particularly the lungs and eardrums, eyes etc. It wont take too long after that to pass on. Just a little flopping from the burns.

Remember I grew up in the age of megatonnage. If you are going to be burned into a surface by the light as a shadow forever, make it a big one.

I don't worry about it. Much. The difference is older age. You had a good run. Now if I was 18 and had a life to live then sure I would be looking for a hole sufficient for 4 weeks of starshine and radiation downwind of the targets. But those are just not that common now.

The biggest problem is EMP. Light one off sufficently placed above us then no trucks and no trains other than steam and old iron. And we don't have that many of them left. Most cars today with computers bricked. As are electric motors and so forth that are under digital control. Poof. Now what? Beans and bullets baby, save the last few for yourselves.

 

Truck stop food scares me way more than that silly virus thats named after a light beer.

Now if it was the moonshine virus, id reconsider my level of concern.

 

This how I wanna go when I go out!

 

I won't disagree with the numbers. I just ask everybody to maintain perspective. The US has over 60,000 deaths a year from flu and flu-like illnesses. I read yesterday were some researchers in Australia are predicting as many as 14 million deaths worldwide coming from this. Nobody is trying to say it is not serious.

 

There are two cases now reported in Pennsylvania. Delaware county is not very far from where I'm at.

CORONAVIRUS UPDATE: Two cases in Pa.

 

You're not reading the same forum I am.

I am not in the "panic" camp, but is a serious threat. Either extreme is ridiculous, IMHO.

 

I'm sure most people following this situation have been to the Johns Hopkins tracking site, so I won't link it again.

Here's an updated screenshot of March 07, 2020 U.S. stats. The bulk of the reported deaths are from that nursing home in Washington.

 

To be fair both the political Right and Left are feeding misinformation to the public here in the US. I honestly don't know how all this will end. I am encouraged by the still rising recovery rates (mostly in China) posted on that Johns Hopkins website. They are approaching 60% now. I continue to see reports, where the Chinese are starting to go back to work AND the rates of new cases, have fallen. I won't get into much detail on all this, but if this thing hits Hampton Roads Virginia I'm in serious trouble because I don't think I am strong enough to beat it. So, yes I am scared as any normal thinking person should be. I also am just now seeing where police in the Central California area are making mandatory stay at home orders now. I just hope that as this runs it's course it will prove to not have death rates that become at pandemic levels.