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Originally posted by bubbatime:
Many reasons you shouldn't stick your head in the sand.

1) Infection rate way worse than standard flu
2) Lethality (300 to 500 times worse than the standard flu, depending on who you believe.)
3) An unstoppable global pandemic that burns through the worlds population in the span of about 18 months to 2 years.
4) We are in the early stages now. 20,000 dead. In the first month. Once it gains traction and goes world wide, expect hundreds of thousands to millions dead.
5) If it goes full scale pandemic, and it looks like it probably will, you will know several people that will die. You might even be one of them. If you are over 65, its not looking good.
6) You cant just go to a hospital. There are 10-100 beds and they all will be full. You and the 5000 people outside have to wait. Stand in line with the super sick coughing all over you. After a couple days of that and no help, you'll probably give up and go home.
7) This is America. We have freedoms. Easily 50% of the health care workers will quit and stay home to protect their families and protect themselves. In China, they threaten the healthcare workers with death or prison. Show up to work, or else. That doesn't work here. The nurses and doctors will have mental breakdowns, and the ones that stayed, probably wont stay for long.
8) Don't listen to Chinese. You cant trust anything they say. WATCH what they do. An unprecedented 60 million people and growing daily quarantine? Door to door goon squads dragging people from their homes? They are losing their shit. I wonder why? Perhaps it IS a big deal, and MUCH worse than standard flu?
9) No workers, no truck drivers? No grocery stores with food? No gas stations that still have fuel? Mass civil unrest unlike anything that has ever been seen before. Cities will burn. Cities will be death traps.
10) No sanitation workers. No city water employees. No power-plant employees. No water, no electricity, no garbage collection?

Yeah. The above is worst case scenario. We are still early and the best minds are trying to find a cure. But if they don't, or it takes too long, its not hard to see that THIS could be the real deal. History in the making.

Go clean your guns. Buy some (lots) of food. Prepare.

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Originally posted by Lefty Sig:
Belief in mysticism and superstition is common, even among the educated, because China never had it's own enlightenment or discovery of the scientific method. The west has transplanted scientific thought, but because it didn't develop organically, various bad old habits die hard, and some of those habits do appear to be contributing to the spread of the virus.

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Originally posted by cparktd:
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This site reports just over 20,000 CASES... < 500 deaths world wide.

Link

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Originally posted by FiveFiveSixFan:
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Two days later, they're reporting over 28,000 cases worldwide.

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Originally posted by gearhounds:
230 cases outside China; it’s virtually impossible that they are the only ones.

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As of now, 28,296 total confirmed, 28,039 in China. 565 total deaths, 1 in Hong Kong, 1 in Philippines, rest in China.

• Wuhan crematoriums working around the clock to cope with influx of bodies
  
• Worker Mr Yun said 'more manpower' needed as chambers are working 24/7
  
• Bodies of coronavirus victims must be burned, not buried to prevent spread

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Originally posted by chellim1:

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As of now, 28,296 total confirmed, 28,039 in China. 565 total deaths, 1 in Hong Kong, 1 in Philippines, rest in China.

30 crematoriums working 24/7 seems like a lot for just 500 people... but governments never lie.

• Bodies of coronavirus victims must be burned, not buried to prevent spread

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30 crematoriums working 24/7 seems like a lot for just 500 people... but governments never lie.

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Li Wenliang, a doctor in China who was allegedly detained for warning others about the coronavirus before he himself was sickened by the illness, has died. His death was confirmed during a World Health Organization (WHO) press briefing on Thursday.

"We're very sad to hear of the loss of Dr. Li Wenliang," WHO officials said, before adding that it was too soon to say whether the outbreak was reaching a peak.


Li Wenliang had claimed that he shared his concerns about the virus in a private chat with other medical students before he was detained by authorities.
Li Wenliang had claimed that he shared his concerns about the virus in a private chat with other medical students before he was detained by authorities.
Li, who according to the BBC was a 34-year-old ophthalmologist at Wuhan Central Hospital, had claimed that in late December he shared his concerns via private chat with medical school graduates after several patients exhibited symptoms similar to SARS before he was visited and warned by authorities.

He was then summoned to Public Security Bureau where he was forced to sign a letter stating that he made false comments about the virus, the BBC reported. Authorities later apologized.

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Originally posted by trapper189:
2,400,000 people die in China everyday. Let's assume 28,000 people in China have died from this virus in the last 60 days. That brings the daily death total up to 2,400,466 per day, a .02% increase.

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Originally posted by feersum dreadnaught:

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Originally posted by trapper189:
2,400,000 people die in China everyday. Let's assume 28,000 people in China have died from this virus in the last 60 days. That brings the daily death total up to 2,400,466 per day, a .02% increase.

Not sure where your # comes from...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_China, says ~10 million died in all of 2019. which is ~27,000 per day, without the virus.