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Covid-19
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There is just so much information out there that it's hard to get a good read on it and a lot of it is speculative. I fall in the middle. I think use common sense and help to reduce the risk. But not go out and buy 30 bottles of hand sanitizer and a pallet of TP. Now people don't have hand sanitizer because you have grabbed it all in a panic, and they're driving store to store to find TP.
Not sure I get the whole stocking up on toilet paper thing. Can someone fill me in?
People panicked and bought toilet paper because they thought they wouldn't be able to leave the house for long periods of time. Not sure why food wasn't a higher priority
They gon' be moving all of us outdoors pretty soon. Jeez...
Food, beer, rum would be my first thoughts.
Hey man good for you. Keep showing em who’s boss
This is a real life pandemic. Downplay it all you want, but China completely shut down their ports and quarantined cities, Italy is doing the same. I’m not saying that it’s the Black Plague, or the Spanish flu, but it’s serious.
If you need more motivation to support mitigating the spread of COVID-19, the more people that contract the disease the more likely it is to turn into something we will have to deal with on a regular basis. Instead of cold and flu season, we'll have cold, flu, and COVID season. More resources spent trying to fight another disease, more lost productivity, and more deaths. What I find particularly concerning is that SARS-COV (causes SARS) and SARS-COV-2 (causes COVID-19) are genetically pretty similarly, but are phylogenetically distinct. This means each virus gained zoonotic transmission independently. These viruses seem predisposed to jumping from animal to animal and the longer COVID-19 circulates the likelihood it will jump to another animal increases. Needless to say, that would be really bad.
Pandemic predictions by informed and educated folks are not new.
This physician has obvious axes to grind, but his stuff is worthy of attention. The video is rather terrifying. I don't know how close to the mark his comments are when it comes to the Wuhan virus.
Here's the link in case the embedded video won't play here, and you're interested.
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Look I’m sad that our culture has become so prone to bouts of uncontrolled and irrational fear.... this country is done unless people get their 💩together and STOP 🛑 listening and watching digital media ... they do not have your best interest at heart .... the left and that includes their mouth piece the media ....have a motto ...... never ever let a crisis go to waste ...think people ...please
You forgot the /s at the end
Jim why are you calling it the Wuhan virus? It’s coved-19. I always enjoy your posts and it saddens me you have revealed yourself as a racist.
Folks, if you have any concerns about this affecting the content of DawgNation, rest assured that @JeffSentell is still working hard trying to keep great articles and information coming in....
This is what I was trying to say earlier: it’s not that this is a plague that kills everyone it touches. The problem is when the health services get overrun. That doesn’t happen with the flu because it doesn’t hit everyone at once.