NOW I’m wondering if I should start buying enough for a few weeks - DoD related

I’m with you, it’s just that the DoD order to domestic forces grabbed my attention. I guess they want to be prepared for anything just in case. Hopefully that’s all it is.

Or on Deborah's/ Karen's desk

Yes, go now before the sun comes up and find all the TP you can! Why did you not do this last night for crying out loud.

Go into every public restroom you can and steal the rolls out of the stalls. Stock up on bottled water, bread and milk which you probably will not find.

Instead get all the powdered dry milk you see. Get the Slim Jim beef jerky from convenience stores. Ask to search the stock room in the back. Sometimes a box will fall behind a shelf.

Go, go now!

Oh yeah, and with draw all our you money and stash the cash in a few locations around town.

I held off throwing out several pairs of old boots just in case we run out of potato chips and ice cream.

I would imagine it has a lot to do with all of the testing that is about to take place. More tests available means there will be more cases reported. Inevitable really.

The good thing about that though, is I think it will lower the mortality rate on this virus.

I was told some not so good news by someone who works in the medical field yesterday that is involved in a lot of the government goings on and know quite a bit more than the general public. Basically SARS from a while back did infect quite a few people. In most of those people it basically stayed dormant and didn't attack their bodies(reason is above my head). The corona virus entering that same person will actually make SARS do its thing. The end result is death because of SARS and not death because of Corona. Basically, the mortality numbers are a bit off currently because the cause of death isn't technically because of Corona, but SARS.

This is also a reason why some people who contract Corona and do not have SARS, may not have any respiratory issues. See one of the recovered people in Washington state who was interviewed last night on Fox News. She had a spiked fever to 103, but not once during her battle have any shortness of breath, chest issues, etc.

That’s the first I’m hearing of that. Not sure if I believe it but SARS is severe acute respiratory syndrome so I’m sure it’s plausible. I just think the media would be leading with this all the time if that were the case.

No - it means they are curing any unnecessary travel which could allow personnel to catch the virus and then bring it back to a base. It's a measure to contain the virus where it is.

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That’s the first I’m hearing of that. Not sure if I believe it but SARS is severe acute respiratory syndrome so I’m sure it’s plausible. I just think the media would be leading with this all the time if that were the case.

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I added to my post likely before you made this response.

This information came from a government/healthcare meeting in Texas this week.

One other example is that some people who were harboring SARS will also test positive for corona much longer than someone who does not have SARS, after all physical symptoms are gone. This will end up causing issues with the general public as well because we will see people quarantined for up to two months possibly with no signs of illness.

Very good point! And to point of needing the DoD to remain healthy, good point there too.