In case you want more pictures, less text than the JHU site...  Coronavirus viz

U.S. Health Workers Responding to Coronavirus Lacked Training and Protective Gear

Anyone who thought "electing Trump won't kill anyone" are very close to being wrong.  The administration overrode the CDC's explicit instructions not to bring Americans home from Japan...and we now have the virus mysteriously appearing in someone without known contact linkage within 10 miles of the AFBase where the cruise line folks are in quarantine.  

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:
 
Swine lasted over a year and infected up to 20% of the population, but the mortality rate was much lower....Only about 1/2 million, or less than. 10%

Good job Pencey!
Mike Pence was criticized for his handling of Indiana’s HIV outbreak. He will lead the U.S. coronavirus response.

“He’s got a certain talent for this”

Whistleblower Says Federal Employees Flown From Coronavirus Sites Didn’t Follow Safety Protocols

 cc_rider wrote:
 
  Yes, I think most of the nations engaged in WWI censored reports about victims of the 1918 flu in their countries (to keep up "morale" or some such).  Spain was not at war and reported their cases, so I guess people just attached their name to it.

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:
 
Yeah, it's nothing to sneeze at. Get it? Flu? Sneeze? See what I did there?

Apparently the Spanish Flu (1918) killed somewhere upwards of 50 million, with some estimates as high as 100 million. Point of origin is still disputed, but 'Spanish' is a misnomer regardless. What is NOT disputed is the flu's spread was aided by secrecy imposed due the war. Woodrow Wilson has been singled out for his iron-fisted control of the media and its effect on the spread of the virus. What goes around...

c.

 cc_rider wrote:
 

Worldwide flu typically kills 290,000 to 600,000 annually. COVID-19 is just getting warmed up but some back-of-the-envelope math I did last night (assuming some wildly unpredictable numbers but taking the most conservative of each) says it is likely to double that.

 islander wrote:
 
Sadly true.
Also, we should remember the regular old flu kills something like 10-15,000 people EVERY YEAR. Still, I am not suggesting COVID-19 is trifling.
c.

 rgio wrote:
 
Single digit death tolls don't do it for us anymore. Unless it's in a church or school, you need at least a dozen (to give a little margin for ambiguity about the shooter) to bump the news cycle. 

 rgio wrote:
 

Just another day in 'Merica. FREEDOM!

 black321 wrote:
 
Agree 100%.  There are 5 dead in a mass shooting yesterday, and it's in the "other news" section of the NYTimes already.  

 rgio wrote:
 
Still, the virus has hit populated areas with hundreds of millions  of people. 30 years ago this would be buried in the news. A risk? Absolutely, but the optics may be making it seem worse than it is. 

 Red_Dragon wrote:
 
They have been in lockdown in the highly infected regions, with businesses and schools closed for weeks now.  They are slowly lifting the bans (with some companies paying bonuses for employees who actually show up to work).  Let's see what happens when people start interacting again.

Seems to be leveling off in China...

 kurtster wrote:

 exactly why we need a simplify the immigration process...so migrants dont have any incentive to do it illegally. 

 miamizsun wrote: 
No, there's no way that would happen.  I think that mostly everyone has too much class to make this part of the political game.

 islander wrote: 
Yea wouldn't it be a shame if someone were to use this virus to make political points?

 kurtster wrote:
 
Nicely played.  A global pandemic and you manage to twist it to your crusade against people not like you.