On Sat, 07 Mar 2020 20:52:47 -0500, Adorable Deplorable
wrote:

On Sat, 07 Mar 2020 13:35:08 -0500, wrote:

On Sat, 07 Mar 2020 10:54:35 -0500,
wrote:

This is a little unsettling. Biogen is a huge international biotech
company. They held a meeting at the Marriott Long Wharf hotel last
week involving about 175 members of their senior management team,
including the chief executive, chief financial officer, and head of
research and development.

So far, five Massachusetts residents and three people from out of
state who attended the meeting have tested positive for Covid-19.
Additionally, an Indiana resident who was in Boston at the same time
has come down with the virus. Two of the people from the meeting who
tested positive are from Europe,

If nothing else this illustrates how incredibly contagious the virus
is, and how likely it is to become widespread in this country. No
doubt it will touch all of us in some way.

They just had some old geezer die at LeMo and the spouse is on the
roof. It was the only thing on the TV this afternoon but no real
facts. They did say they just got here from somewhere but wouldn't say
where. They also said they had "underlying health issues".

...as did most of those who died.

But this is a fact which seems unimportant to the media: "So far, the CDC has estimated (based on
weekly influenza surveillance data) that at least 12,000 people have died from influenza between
Oct. 1, 2019 through Feb. 1, 2020, and the number of deaths may be as high as 30,000."

https://www.health.com/condition/col...flu-every-year

And we have all of 16 deaths here?

I am sure this is going to roll up some numbers and for the first time
in a long time, maybe forever, we will get the daily tally. We just
need to remember in a normal flu season we lose 40 or 50 a day and
nobody hears about it. I think this is going to be a nasty assed cold
for the people who get it but most people will shake it off. Old,
frail people should hide in the house. Spray your meals on wheels with
disinfectant (it is in a sealed package) and only talk to strangers
through your ring camera. Pray for a vaccine.
The good news is the more people who beat this thing, the more people
who won't be spreading it around. Maybe we should be telling young
healthy people to go kiss a stranger and inoculate themselves
"spontaneously" as Dr Falci says. It would also give Fauci and his
pals a good sample of successful antibodies to work with for a
vaccine.