When is it time to panic

In reply to RX Reven' :

I had never, ever heard it called a toothbrush before this poster. 

Wally said:

In reply to RX Reven' :

I had never, ever heard it called a toothbrush before this poster. 

They used to call Charlie Chaplin's mustache a toothbrush back in the day.

NOHOME said:

In reply to karussell :

Kinda sitting on pins with a daughter in Korea. She just finished her contract teaching at an English language academy. The school actually shut down because students were not showing up, and then it was mandated.

Her plans are to move into a new apartment this weekend, spend a month relaxing in Korea and then head home for two months before returning to live there permanently.

I would be a lot happier if she were to change her flight home to sooner rather than later.

I guess she could cash in big on the mask thing: She had a bout with pneumonia n December, and since she teaches, she bought the lifetime achievement size pack of mask. She has hundreds of the things in inventory of all colors ( cause had to match outfits)

Pete

 

Edit:

On an unrelated but related note. I used to live in Nigeria where Malaria was a given, and hence did a quick search to put this into perspective. Why is the world not in an equal panic about Malaria?

What is the mortality rate for malaria?

Internationally, malaria is responsible for approximately 1-3 million deaths per year. Of these deaths, the overwhelming majority are in children aged 5 years or younger, and 80-90% of the deaths each year are in rural sub-Saharan Africa. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Because without all the Nigerian princes dying, how am I supposed to get my inheritance?

Wally said:

In reply to RX Reven' :

I had never, ever heard it called a toothbrush before this poster. 

I just realized that they put it third to the Reich…that’s fun.

My wife is the emergency planning coordinator for a large company.  You never panic, you prepare, stick to your emergency plan and remain calm.  Pretty sure today she's working on their coronavirus plan.  
 

also you don't wear a hitler mustache 

“When is it time to panic”…um, now

California is monitoring 8,400 possible coronavirus cases.

Yahoo Finance - February 27, 2020

I've been telling everyone to avoid popping those air pillow packaging things because China was shipping their air to us.

Just got an email that a big automotive trade show in Taiwan has been postponed from April to Oct. 21-24.

Its going to be a bad year for trade shows !

In reply to californiamilleghia :

Yep, they just cancelled the Geneva Auto Show...

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/geneva-auto-show-canceled-switzerland-bans-large-events-69280086

It's much much worse than I thought! A Poor dog was just found to be carrying the virus. 

I do have a couple puppers at home (pitbull mixes) God save the pups!

ShawnG said:

I've been telling everyone to avoid popping those air pillow packaging things because China was shipping their air to us.

 

I thought bubble wrap and other inflated packing materials were filled with one of the more inert fluorocarbons.

In reply to Catatafish :

We're more concerned about our "zoo" than we are ourselves honestly. 

In reply to Knurled. :

I always assumed those were china's way of cleaning up their air supply, by trapping their most polluted air in those and shipping it off to us...And we even pay them for the privilege.

Isnt all the quarantine, etc just prolonging the inevitable?  A perfect quarantine isn't possible for lots of reasons, even shutting down borders and airlines is not 100% fool-proof.  And if you shut those down, for how long?

Some light-duty preparations is never a terrible idea but to go all mask/prepper/etc is a fools mission.  

For me, life goes on.  I don't watch the news.  

The real goal of quarantine is to give the body enough time to begin to fight the disease to the point where it can't feasibly spread to another person; you're either loosing the fight and need hospitalization, OR you wait until said person has enough antibodies floating around that the virus would have a hard time spreading and infecting someone else.

Quarantines DO work, problem is it's clear the Chinese government never openly said *why* they were in it and thus, people got far more scared and tried to leave- breaking quarantine and making everything worse.

Quarantines can also slow the spread, and allow others to make more preparations.  Even if the quarantine doesn’t prevent the spread, it buys time for medical supplies to be produced/bought and distributed, and methods of fighting the disease to be improved.

Knurled. said:

I thought bubble wrap and other inflated packing materials were filled with one of the more inert fluorocarbons.

No, they're filled with air. The pillows are actually shipped flat (uninflated) to the company using them and they have a machine that fills them with air and seals them. There's no need to spend $$ shipping air, and certainly no need to spend $$$$$ using fluorocarbons when air does the job.

Air pillow machine:

Here's my question:

Say you're the first person on earth to get a new virus, but your symptoms are like the flu.

So you get sick, and stay home a few days, maybe go to the doctor cuz you feel awful. Doctor treats your symptoms for flu since everything points to that. You continue to feel awful for a couple more days then get better.

Who catches that your flu was novel to the known virus world? How many people just like you have a novel virus before anyone notices it is novel?

To me, even as a doctor during flu season, you would have to have a ton of patients presenting slightly differently before you say to yourself, "I wonder if this isn't the flu?"

In reply to dculberson :

used at every amazon fullfiment center.  can confirm

Zeynep Tufekci (definitely a good Twitter follow) did a write-up on virus prep for typical households.​​​​​​​ I recommend it.

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/preparing-for-coronavirus-to-strike-the-u-s/

Welp, Florida has officially gone full retard. First confirmed cases have hit according to the cdc. Costcobis out of bleach. I'm looking forward to shorter lines for space mountain. 

Can confirm, Wal-Mart is sold out of hand sanitizer.

I swear we humans look at a possible pandemic as just another excuse to go shopping.  

I heard on the radio today that The Country of France has put out a public bulletin discouraging hand shaking and kissing as greetings.  

In reply to John Welsh :

I think they prefer "République française " to "The Country of France," but I'll not tell anyone of your misdeed.