re: China just cancelled all flights and trains in/out of Wuhan

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UnitedFruitCompany

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I hear what you're saying, and I don't disagree with it from the perspective of being in America... but I'm thinking about it from a worldwide pandemic perspective. If it's even just slightly more contagious than your average flu, and it gets loose into large cities in 3rd world countries like Manila, Bangkok, Hanoi, Jakarta, and other large cities like those, I think the death toll would be pretty horrific.

And I think food safety and sanitation is somewhat overrated when you're talking about a flu-like virus. The regular ole plain jane flu kills HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of people in the US every year. Throw in a virus that is similarly communicable, slightly more contagious, and with a little bit higher mortality rate and you could STILL have a million dead in the US over one bad flu season. Compound that with an increased strain on our healthcare system, lack of hospital beds... like I said, we might be fine in the US, but other places? It would be ugly.

I'm not implying it's doomsday, but I am saying if things get sketchy, you would be very wise to have some food on hand, medical supplies to keep you and your family at home for any kind of basic health/medical issues, and somewhere to go to that isn't in a large urban area if it got to that point.

If I had to bet on what the next worldwide Black Swan event will be that could most dramatically impact my family, it would be a global pandemic.

Meanwhile our CDC and FAA won’t lift a finger to stop flights and passengers arriving from countries with hot zones. The first case has already come over.

If it truly does have a ten percent mortality rate, this is the mother of all corona viruses.

No doubt.

Ever since reading One Second After ive been way more cognizant of black swan like deals that would affect easy american way of life type stuff. Which is funny because i love that post-apocalyptic crap (Katrina(me), Walking Dead, Contagion, all of them, really) and yet none of those stories ever really made me think, shite, maybe I should buy a few MREs. Until that one.

Here's hoping it just blows over. Until then, though, ill be sure to stay away from any civets with a bad cough....

The Chicoms have had a very bad year.

It’s already here

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The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed the first United States case of a mysterious coronavirus from China in Washington state.

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Also in Hong Kong, Macau, and possibly Mexico.

Hopefully it fizzles out like Ebola, but when the big one comes it will probably look like this - a Chinese origin virus in livestock.

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ell, more bad news. If you didn't read "The Road"...and do...further down you go. It's worse than "One Second After"

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and now I kinda hate you....lol

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In other news out of China, a poll of Hong Kong protesters says 90% are planning to move to Wuhan soon.

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Move not voluntary.

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There are almost 8 billion people in the world. 2% of the world's population dying in a pandemic would be 150+ million people. That's not being dramatic or alarmist at all. It's actually very possible... and as time goes on, it's more and more likely that it WILL happen.

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We need a virus that wipes out closer to 50%. We can call it the Thanos Virus.