Hudini...from your unique perspective, thoughts on the new Chinese corona virus (Page 110/146)
MidEngineManiac MAR 30, 09:29 AM

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Originally posted by Patrick:

And in Canada it's the right wingers (ie MEM) who are now whining about the shipment of medical supplies from Canada to China in February.

This nonsense comes from both sides of the political spectrum.



The nonsense Patrick, is this leftist crap of playing Santi-Clauze to the entire globe while our own suffer, starve and go homeless.

Looking after your own and you family first is just common sense. If there is something left over, only then is charity a viable option. Nobody in their right mind feeds the neighbors kids and let's their own go hungry..... except for lefties. And even they don't do it, they want to be generous with someone else's money, by force, simply to satisfy their own feeewwwiiinngggssss about how great a person they are.
Tony Kania MAR 30, 10:17 AM
100,000 to 200,000 Americans are projected to die from this virus.


Patrick, Donald, and Ronald have things under control at their end. Let them speak. Never silence those that know so much. Like teachers they are. We need them, so be kind.

Sorry that the lot of you are butt hurt about this President. My feelings are not affected by yours. Carry on though.

Stay safe. Family, Friends, neighbors...


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Tony Kania MAR 30, 10:29 AM
Again, I ask that BS not be placed into this thread, unless it is approved by the Canadian government.


I want to play a game with you. I call it, spot the propaganda machine. Begin...
Tony Kania MAR 30, 12:45 PM

Arizona closed all schools for the remainder of the school year. The first of many.
maryjane MAR 30, 12:57 PM

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Gov. Greg Abbott on Sunday tightened travel to Texas by ordering some motorists from Louisiana to self-quarantine for two weeks.

The new restrictions, effective noon Monday, came as President Donald Trump extended social distancing guidelines through April 30, preventing all nonessential travel in the country.

Louisiana’s status as a hot spot for the novel coronavirus grew Sunday to more than 3,500 positive cases statewide. Under the new rules, drivers with commercial, medical, emergency response, military or critical infrastructure purposes for entering Texas would be exempted.

A spokesman for the Department of Public Safety said Sunday the agency was not prepared to comment on the details of the new measures.


State troopers will enforce the order at checkpoints at major roadways along the border. Those in quarantine will be asked to provide an address for where they plan to hole up in Texas, either for two weeks or until their return to Louisiana, whichever comes first.

A provision in the order allows DPS special agents to check on those under quarantine to ensure they’re complying. Violators could be subject to either a $1,000 fine or 180 days in jail, according to the four-page document. Another provision states that if a driver is showing symptoms associated with COVID-19, such as fever, coughing or shortness of breath, a trooper will follow them to their destination.



Interstate 10 just inside the Tx/La border

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MidEngineManiac MAR 30, 01:19 PM

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Originally posted by Tony Kania:


Arizona closed all schools for the remainder of the school year. The first of many.



All these long term closures really have me second-and-third guessing myself if I should be stocking up on lumber for the summer season, or ammo to drive off the looters.
rinselberg MAR 30, 01:40 PM

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Originally posted by olejoedad:
Have you read the referenced guidance document? Was it part of the system that was deemed "not up to the task at hand" by the virus response team?


I'm not going to look directly at that document.

This is a mega-sized story that is still unfolding, with much that yet remains to be seen (because it hasn't happened yet.) I don't want to be part of an incompletely informed or under-informed "rush" to either excoriate the President or to laud him by singing his praises in choir-like fashion.

If anyone wants to glom onto another one mainstream media report about the federal response in retrospect--not what's currently being done or what's ahead, but what's already behind us--I nominate this one:

"Before Virus Outbreak, a Cascade of Warnings Went Unheeded"

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Government exercises, including one last year, made clear that the U.S. was not ready for a pandemic like the coronavirus. But little was done.


David E. Sanger, Eric Lipton, Eileen Sullivan and Michael Crowley for the New York Times; March 19, 2020.
https://www.nytimes.com/202...avirus-outbreak.html

The same text was duplicated in the Chicago Tribune.
https://www.chicagotribune....ehxmmtjpq-story.html

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maryjane MAR 30, 02:00 PM
GO NAVY....This morning.  USNS Comfort docked in NYC.
And just like that....1000 more beds available. It, and sister ship USNS Mercy (presently docked in Los Angeles) are each equivalent to the 4th largest hospital in the USA pulling up to a dock in your city.








cliffw MAR 30, 02:19 PM

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Originally posted by maryjane:

GO NAVY....This morning.  USNS Comfort docked in NYC ... equivalent to the 4th largest hospital in the USA ...



To take non Corona Virus needs. I saw a report that NY City rated something like 275 out of 300 + hospitals with ICU room ratio.
olejoedad MAR 30, 02:21 PM

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Originally posted by rinselberg:

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I don't want to be part of an incompletely informed or under-informed "rush" to either excoriate the President or to laud him by singing his praises in choir-like fashion.

(snip)




Had to quote that statement, just too good to pass up.