re: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) ***W.H.O. DECLARES A GLOBAL PANDEMIC***

She was beating the alarm drum in Jan. Bet she’s TDS. She may be related to Rosenstein

I'm thinking of pulling a Volvagia now because I know how other people lose their fricking minds at the earliest onset of rumors.

Anyone in Texas knows the stupid shite that happened after Harvey with the gas runs in Dallas and Austin.

Her statement may mean that her kid's lives would be disrupted because of the amount of working hours coming if/when the virus takes off here. If that's not what she meant then she is just looking to make headlines.

If you self-quarantine or school is closed for a few weeks, I think that qualifies as a significant disruption to life.

It doesn't mean that society will collapse.

Here is something that might help put this into perspective:
COVID19: What do we have to fear from a pandemic?
Brief bio:

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Jennifer Cole PhD is an Associate Fellow at the Royal United Institute for Defence and Security Studies a UK-based policy think tank, where she ran the Resilience and Emergency Planning programme until 2018. She worked with UK and international government agencies on policy planning around the response to serious infectious disease outbreaks. She is now a full-time Research Fellow at Royal Holloway, University of London.

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So is SARS-Cov2 a disaster? A death sentence for the world? The end of civilisation as we know it? The evidence is increasingly saying ‘no’[4]. Pandemics have, in the past, been all those things but at the same time, all ‘pandemic’ means, in literal terms – ‘pan (all) and demos (people)’ – is ‘everywhere in the world’. It denotes the geographic range of the spread, not severity of the disease, but tends to be interpreted by lay audiences as the latter only. This is precisely why WHO revised how they used the term following the 2009-10 H1NI ‘Swine Flu’ pandemic [5]: when the virus responsible turned out to cause only mild disease in most cases, they were criticised for over-reacting and of encouraging countries to ramp up unnecessary countermeasures. The media prefer to hear about PHEICs – Public Health Emergencies of International Concern [6] – because they’re easier to make headlines out of. Emergency! Concern! – even though PHEICs may not be everywhere or much of a threat to most people other than the ones whose job it is to deal with them.

Anyone remember the Polio PHIEC of 2014 [7]?. It didn’t spark sensational headlines because the world has a vaccine. The fact that the vaccination programme had broken down in war-torn Syria, putting thousands of Syrian children at risk – but no-one else – wasn’t a good enough story. Ebola – which was happening at the same time – got much more attention. There was more of a threat from a disease that didn’t have a vaccine – although, as it turned out, even that threat was reasonably easily mitigated by any quarter-decent healthcare system [8]. A few years before, Swine Flu had made the headlines when people who don’t usually die if they catch influenza thought they might, but everyone then lost interest when they realised that this wasn’t the case [9]. At the same time, the papers forgot that more than 600,000 people die each year from normal seasonal flu [10] – up to 10,000 in the UK alone [11]. This is also pandemic, but no-one really worries too much about it. So how does all this relate to coronavirus SARS-CoV2? Should we be scared that (a) it’s a PHEIC and (b) that it may or not be ‘officially’ a pandemic depending on whose classification is used and how that classification is made?

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It's a good read.

Just got a 14 day supply of food for “just in case.” If I need to stay at the house for a while I can and not need to go anywhere. I am usually not one to prep. But as soon as the hysteria hits the public the market shelves will be empty.

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This shite is too wide spread to seem to be able to be contained. It does also seem like it will impact our daily lives, based on what we are seeing elsewhere

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Does the annual Flu outbreak substantially impact our lives? Occasionally, yes, but as a whole, not really.

Look at SG as an example, there was an initial breakout and ramp up to 60 cases and people made runs on markets... There was never an interruption in daily lives outside of additional precautions and their cases have slowed to a crawl. Life it back to normal for the most part there.

Fear mongering like her statement and her despicable virtue signaling of “I talk to my kids about things and I warned them because I am so highly educated... You should warn your kids too because its going to be terrible” is what will lead to unneeded runs on goods should there be a widespread outbreak here.

Btw, does the immunization chief often make statements around the impact of something, to which, there isn’t immunization for? I could see her coming out and giving an update on where they stand in regards to testing and developing something, but not the impact of a virus.... Seems like this wouldn’t be her world and she was using this as an opportunity to make a name for herself.

Ya that's the rub. At this point I have zero concern about this virus. I do have concern about how people will react to her statements and misinformation.

What happened after Harvey here was a case in point. Some rumor came out about gas shortages. So everyone starts hitting the gas stations hard. They started running out of gas and so the whole thing became a self fulfilling prophecy.

Me being the calm one almost ran out of gas that week.

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I'll be honest - a few more comments like this and this country will be a fricking shite show

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Exactly. That’s really why i bought my supply. Shelves will be empty once the media starts creating real panic. People empty grocery stores for snow storms. We are good about creating a false sense of panic.

Just wanted to drop in and say frick China. Wash your damn hands.

A very good point for comparison.