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7th death in Italy:

62 year old male from Lombardy with previous health issues

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Coronavirus: morto a Como, 7/a vittima - Ultima Ora

E' morto questo pomeriggio all'ospedale Sant'Anna di Como il paziente trasferito dal Lodigiano nel fine settimana risultato positivo al tampone sul Coronavirus. (ANSA)
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According to his spokeswoman, the Slovakian Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini has not contracted the new type of corona virus. Pellegrini suffers from pneumonia, "but that's all," said spokeswoman Patricia Macikova on Monday in Bratislava. Previously, rumors in Brussels had spread that the Slovakian prime minister might be infected with the causative agent of the lung disease Covid-19.


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Yeah, sure. It's just pneumonia, dude :story:
 
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I wonder what the hell WHO are gonna do when they are infected soon enough, will they still continue to tell everyone "It's just the flu guys."

crossing my fingers the CDC won't beat around the bush for long once the cases of infection increase in Cali the next month. To all Kiwis in that area, my heart goes out to you all.
 
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New Canadian case, is in "close contact" with the woman who came from Iran.

B.C.'s 7th COVID-19 case connected to woman who flew from Iran

Latest case is man in Fraser Health region who is a close contact of woman diagnosed last week
Karin Larsen · CBC News · Posted: Feb 24, 2020 9:18 AM PT | Last Updated: an hour ago

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Health Minister Adrian Dix, left, and provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry, seen here in a file photo, announced a seventh confirmed case of COVID-19 in B.C. on Monday. (Ben Nelms/CBC)
A seventh case of COVID-19 has been diagnosed in British Columbia in the Fraser Health region.
Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said the man, in his 40s, is a close contact of a young woman who was diagnosed with the illness caused by the novel coronavirus last week after she travelled back to Vancouver from Iran.
Henry said the man had shown symptoms of the illness prior to the positive diagnosis of the woman, and went into isolation last week. He is now in stable condition and recovering at home, as is the woman.
Officials have been working to identify those who may have come into contact with the man, said Henry.

"There have been a number of close contacts that have been identified by Fraser Health over the weekend and they are also in isolation now and being monitored actively every day by public heath," she said.
B.C. Health Minister Adrian Dix said the man's diagnosis was confirmed by the B.C. Centre for Disease Control, which is now authorized for COVID-19 testing — that means samples no longer have to be sent to the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg.
According to Henry, the first person who was diagnosed with COVID-19 in B.C. four weeks ago has now recovered.
She said cases two, three and four — a household cluster in the Vancouver Coastal Health region — are also recovering, as is the the fifth case, located in the Interior Health region.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/china-coronavirus-cover-up-claims-1.5471946
Henry said no additional cases related to close contacts of the first five cases have been identified.
Earlier Monday, a woman in her 20s who had arrived from China on Friday was confirmed as the fourth case of COVID-19 in Ontario.

The woman had travelled to Hubei province and the city of Wuhan, the epicentre of the outbreak, in January.


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Was thinking about some things this morning.

If you have diabetes or know anyone with diabetes, especially the type requiring insulin injections, strongly advise laying in a supply of insulin syringes, test strips, lancets, and a spare blood glucose monitor. Some of these things come from China. All items presently available on Amazon. No prescription needed, least for Americans. Six months is good, a year even better. Not a huge-dollar item. Insulin should be available, maybe temporary limits on purchases.

Here's an example of the importance of the seemingly unimportant. We in the USA easily produce enough food to feed ourselves. Am concerned about availability of packaging materials. Way back when, tard cum primarily came in glass bottles. Many products came in cans, paper bags, metal tubes or boxes. Want to say a lot of meat was cut for you then wrapped in butcher paper. Chocolate bars were wrapped in various types of paper and sometimes aluminum foil. maybe wax paper. And some things came in cellophane-type bags. Grocery bags were all made of paper.

Look around you. Many food products these days come in plastic containers. Many more products come in plastic/aluminum wrap/bags. Grocery bags often plastic. Meat comes wrapped in plastic, on a foam plastic tray. Some food spreads come in pressurized aerosol cans. Wonder where the plastic and aluminum, or the plastic/aluminum wrap/bags comes from. If from China, a major concern. Need to find new sources ASAP, and rev up the recycling. Likely not real easy/quick to build production lines for huge numbers of glass bottles, from 6-ounce to half-gallon size. Could get to where, if you want a glass bottle of tard cum, you turn in empty bottle first. During the war you had to turn in empty tube of toothpaste to get a full tube.

Sure can be a surprise to think about all the things we usually never think about, just take for granted, least until they are short/not available. Know this can happen. And I would say take NOTHING WHATSOEVER for granted in life. NOTHING. So keep your eyes and ears open and your brain working. And let us hope to hell people who can actually do something about these matters are looking at them.
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If the infection spreads further well need to adapt otherwise it will be the end times.
 
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Alright so it's been a day, still got family dinner to… "look up" to… Yeah let's go with that. But some hours ago I told you I was ruminating a little something suspicious and it's far from gone away since then, only made it worse actually, so now that I got some rest time let me tell you of a few facts I got and how they affect my view on what might or might not be happening.

Let's actually start with a few points of data that might be relevant later but aren't immediately important:
-Winter 17-18 was THE most lethal flu season in spain in the last decade with 472 deaths. Yeah that's not a lot but for the flu it is at least here.
-Winter 19-20, more concretely mid january 2020 to early february 2020 has been THE most infective flu epidemic in cadiz since we even bothered taking notes how many infected there have ever been, exceeding by twice the numbers required to be declared an epidemic. This is not to say however it's been any more LETHAL. It's in fact been as benign as it could get when it comes to lethality and our healthcare system didn't even need buffing past the usual, they did recieve some added visits but nothing close to emergency levels, most people didn't even notice they had the flu until being screened for symptoms and were just told to avoid interactions, and most ignored that warning because all their friends had been told the same so they went "well if we're all sick anyway who cares", even the ones with symptoms only got some headaches, sometimes stomachaches, and maybe a bit of a sore throat or a cough, a few reported getting the runny shits, It has been actually way less severe than most years, by a lot. (While I was outside the province I got the shits myself, which apparently for this year makes me one of the most severe cases around... Fucking weird I tell you.)

Alright so prologue aside. I did notice one thing today. Looking at people I did not see a single person that showed symptoms of anything. But talking to people, almost everyone told me they got a cold. Like I mean EVERYONE had a mild cold. I made some calls to the people I know in healthcare and they told me than while after early february the flu patients had all but gone indeed doctors did seem to almost all have cold symptoms and the more nervous had been asked to be put where no risky patients go due to thinking they might have the flu themselves, so while the system was working just fine they did get a bit on edge with that and didn't know if they should expect round two, which since Corona-chan was winking at them from the other side of Eurasia they were dreading. Talking to the friend whose father is in chemo due to lung cancer, their mom got the flu recently, and noticed the symptoms just a few hours after HAVING SEX with the guy, you can imagine how much they freaked out, but he has no symptoms, her symptoms are mild and she's self quarantining even though the rest of the family is fairly sure while the flu is no STD if he didn't catch it after snu snuing he's probably not catching it.

Here are then the 3 last bits of info I got for you.
1-I was vaccinated this year. Since I have contact with multiple medical personnel I do it just for the sake of herd immunity. It didn't do shit, which probably explains why so many people got sick, the vaccines just straight up didn't work this year. I dunno the numbers outside of cadiz but they used the same vaccine in all of spain so it's probably similar.
2-A friend of mine has pet rodents. He's told me a weak ago both him and his pets caught the flu, he treat his rodents for the parasites most of them have which start getting worse when they get sick and gave them basic care, they've ALL recovered heartily. He told me this because he was worried he might've caused the symptoms because they were so mild that he didn't know if it might be a cold and therefore he might've caused his rodents to get sick due to not controling temperature. But after he told me his symptoms, they included fever. That was no cold.
3-I am currently sick again. This morning I woke up with a bit of a headache, thought it was the travel, most of the day was fine but after I took a really stupid decission and wound up running halfway through the town so as not to be late I started to get worse, and being outside all day walking up and down didn't help. Now I got some fairly typical cold symptoms and, well… a mild fever. I think you see where I'm going.

All of cadiz and probably spain seems to have simultaneously got this january a weird flu that ignores vaccines, can infect from humans to rodents and is very easy to pass along. And we're now seeing obvious signs of reinfections. Yeah I'mma say it I think best girl Corona might've been giving Spain the dirtiest of lapdances since january and no one noticed because she was wearing a paper mask with "common cold" written on it. Now, let me ellaborate and first of all offer alternatives.

The climate is shiiiiiiiit. Every year it's getting wackier. So it could just be a cold. The first time I got the "flu" this year I had no fever I just thought it was that because it was a tad too severe to be a cold so I self quarantined and that was that so I might've had a cold back then and now have the flu. As for my friend, he had the flu but his rodents could just have a cold, we don't know, the only treatment they recieved was for parasites most rodents are born with aside from that they got warmth and food that's hardly something that can discern between flu and cold, and even then I guess some strands of the flu could probably infect rodents like that it's not unheard off. So it might, hell, it probably is just a cold and the a new strand of the flu which is way less lethal than usual but hasn't been added into the vaccine properly and as such herd immunity failed like a bitch. This makes sense, its the rational explanation, it's the "null hypothesis" equivalent until further evidence can be shown. But let me get my tinfoil hat on for a second.

If this really WAS Corona-chan's doing, we might be able to predict some things: Looking at italy it seems they have the same, all the dead people were both old and sick, the deaths are way bellow what you'd expect of even the flu so far, and the only one that does not fit that criteria was someone that was fine until he RAN A MARATHON WHILE SICK, which any marathon runner or person who knows a marathon runner can tell you makes perfect sense, like, excess exercise does a fucking number in your immune system, hell I got to be living proof of that today, and a marathon is way, way harder for the immune system to endure than what I did. Though I am one unfit bastard. So point is, our friendly neiborhood waifu might actually be LESS lethal than the USUAL FLU. It certainly would fit what I'm seeing now. And since this shit's been doing the rounds since january it's likely not gonna get worse. So china's deathtoll really might just be "because china" and not "because corona", we might be looking at a virus so fucking weak than almost an entire province can get it without even noticing it or having any uptick in deaths. The doctors aren't screening for this shit because they just mark severe cases down as the flu and most cases don't even come to them, hell most people just tell this to you casually in confidence but don't think it's anything other than a cold and therefore would never go to the hospital at all. After all, if there's less deaths than most years you wouldn't go checking for the scary chinese pandemic now would you?

Aside from that explanation, there's also the possibility than spain is resilient because spain, in which case it might be because corona has some parts in common with the flu (they're certainly very similar in function, though I don't see why they'd be similar enough in biology honestly) to the point where having gotten the flu this year (if it's this second outbreak of "common colds") or the much more severe strand last years could've immunized the population at least partially. Or it might just be than Iberian genes are saving our asses like african genes saved those prostitutes who were immune to HIV. I dunno. But… If this is Corona's doing, then she's one laughable sonuvabitch.

Either way I haven't told anyone about my suspicions yet. Most people just think they got a cold and everone around them is healthy, I just… pay more attention to these things because as you know, I'm a bit of a sperg. And by that I mean I'm a medically diagnosed sperg, so yeah scratch that "a little bit", and I don't wanna alarm people for nothing if I'm wrong. Either way I already planned to quarantine myself after carnaval and I'll be doing that, but, I do wonder if my fellow Gaditanos might be about to turn into the "rats" to this "black death", as I said, most of them come here for a week and then go to where they work, all over fucking europe. So... I guess if in a few weeks we see europe turn into a christmas tree then, I'm not sorry it's your damned fault for snuffing the life off of our city and then using us as cheap, educated slave lavor you greedy globalist fucks, TAKE THAT SHIT NIGGAS! Muahahahahaha.
 
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Been thinking about this for a few days now, that once this blows over (eventually), the survivors running Toho should make a virus kaiju who originated from China and proved to be more of a global threat than King Ghidorah. Maybe this could be the return of Destroyah, I dunno. I don't remember there ever being a kaiju based off a virus Oh wait, would a monster from Dead Space count? But anyway, I think Corona-chan's proving herself worthy of being immortalized as a force of destruction, man-made or otherwise, and a kaiju or whatever else anime will come up with seems appropriate.

Also as more and more reports come out of the virus having entered more countries and Italy becoming the next hotspot, I guess moral of the story is that globalism--or at least open borders, but that's the result of globalism--was a fucking mistake. History shows again and again how Nature points out the folly of man, and all that jazz.
 
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that globalism--or at least open borders, but that's the result of globalism--was a fucking mistake
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yeah well your blatant racism is forcing china to deter tourism to the US so joke's on you, bigot:

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China's Tourism Ministry Warns Travelers To Avoid US Over 'Racist' Treatment Amid Outbreak

Not like the US would let them in...
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In retaliation for Washington's travel ban targeting Chinese citizens and recent visitors, not to mention the CDC and State Department travel advisories, Beijing is finally putting its foot down: China's Ministry of Culture & Tourism warned on Monday that Chinese citizens shouldn't travel to the US because of "excessive outbreak prevention measures."


Yes, you read that right: China isn't contesting that the US has the outbreak under control. Rather, it believes the US has gone too far. After the WHO insisted that travel restrictions weren't necessary, the US and myriad other countries (most recently Israel) tightened their borders anyway.





Now, the People's Daily is accusing the US government of "unfair treatment of Chinese people". In other words, Beijing is playing the race card. Put another way: A government that has been accused of jailing millions of Muslims in de fact concentration camps is now arguing that the US's precautions to prevent a coronavirus outbreak were racist.




People's Daily: China's Ministry of Culture & Tourism warns citizens not to travel to the US due to excessive #COVID19 outbreak prevention measures & a security situation which has led to unfair treatment of Chinese people. It also advises awareness of security measures. https://t.co/hqtPfOtr2V
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Beijing claimed on Monday that tourists had received "unfair treatment" in parts of the US, and China's tourism bureau also warned that the "domestic security" situation in the US is lacking - possibly referring to several viral videos of Asian-Americans being berated in public, the Daily Mail reports.


Keep in mind: The coronavirus outbreak, which started in Wuhan, a city of nearly 12 million in China's Hubei Province, has killed nearly 3,000 people since it started in December. Nearly 80,000 people have been infected around the world.


"The Ministry of Culture and Tourism reminds Chinese tourists to effectively raise safety awareness and be sure not to travel to the United States," the Ministry said in a statement.
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The ministry neglected to offer any details or explanation of its reasoning. The Trump Administration has temporarily barred foreign nationals who have been to China in the last 14 days from entering the US, other than immediate family of US residents and those with permanent visas.

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A video that surfaced online earlier this month showed a man attacking a Chinese woman and called her a "diseased b***h" on the subway.


While American SJWs have repeatedly warned that certain elements of the virus response have been 'racist', others have ridiculed their warnings as overt displays of hypersensitivity that could put people at risk.


Meanwhile in China, the government is ordering people to go back to work to prevent further economic declines, regardless of their risk of infection.


Then again, it's not like the US would accept them anyway.
 
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dopy said:
yeah well your blatant racism is forcing china to deter tourism to the US so joke's on you, bigot:

www.zerohedge.com

China's Tourism Ministry Warns Travelers To Avoid US Over 'Racist' Treatment Amid Outbreak

Not like the US would let them in...
www.zerohedge.com www.zerohedge.com

In retaliation for Washington's travel ban targeting Chinese citizens and recent visitors, not to mention the CDC and State Department travel advisories, Beijing is finally putting its foot down: China's Ministry of Culture & Tourism warned on Monday that Chinese citizens shouldn't travel to the US because of "excessive outbreak prevention measures."


Yes, you read that right: China isn't contesting that the US has the outbreak under control. Rather, it believes the US has gone too far. After the WHO insisted that travel restrictions weren't necessary, the US and myriad other countries (most recently Israel) tightened their borders anyway.





Now, the People's Daily is accusing the US government of "unfair treatment of Chinese people". In other words, Beijing is playing the race card. Put another way: A government that has been accused of jailing millions of Muslims in de fact concentration camps is now arguing that the US's precautions to prevent a coronavirus outbreak were racist.






Beijing claimed on Monday that tourists had received "unfair treatment" in parts of the US, and China's tourism bureau also warned that the "domestic security" situation in the US is lacking - possibly referring to several viral videos of Asian-Americans being berated in public, the Daily Mail reports.


Keep in mind: The coronavirus outbreak, which started in Wuhan, a city of nearly 12 million in China's Hubei Province, has killed nearly 3,000 people since it started in December. Nearly 80,000 people have been infected around the world.




The ministry neglected to offer any details or explanation of its reasoning. The Trump Administration has temporarily barred foreign nationals who have been to China in the last 14 days from entering the US, other than immediate family of US residents and those with permanent visas.

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A video that surfaced online earlier this month showed a man attacking a Chinese woman and called her a "diseased b***h" on the subway.


While American SJWs have repeatedly warned that certain elements of the virus response have been 'racist', others have ridiculed their warnings as overt displays of hypersensitivity that could put people at risk.


Meanwhile in China, the government is ordering people to go back to work to prevent further economic declines, regardless of their risk of infection.


Then again, it's not like the US would accept them anyway.
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US: we won't let people from China come to the US due to virus concerns.
China: we won't let people from China go to the US due to our RACISM concerns. Take that Trump. Lol, drinking bat soup made with republican tears!

So China is basically just THAT guy. The "I'm not being expelled I go because I want to" guy. I swear they do NOTHING right, but please do keep that attitude CCP it'll serve you great as your base keeps getting eroded I'm sure arrogance and willful ignorance are the way to go.
 
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Fucked is the wrong word.

The Dow made historic gains in the last 12 months. A 1000 point adjustment is nothing.

These concerns are driven by fears about Coronavirus in Italy and South Korea. They will get their shit straight or face economic consequences. The markets still dictate what happens in those economies.

The greater concern is what happened in China. Shanghai and Shenzhen bounced back after liquidity injections in China, it's kind of a double edged sword. If these indexes sustain the comeback, that's great! It means the supply chains are coming back, the Dow will reach new heights. If these indexes collapse, that's great! Those supply chains will move to another country, be restored, and the Dow will reach new heights.

No matter what, Wall Street wins.
 
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Fucked is the wrong word.

The Dow made historic gains in the last 12 months. A 1000 point adjustment is nothing.

These concerns are driven by fears about Coronavirus in Italy and South Korea. They will get their shit straight or face economic consequences. The markets still dictate what happens in those economies.

The greater concern is what happened in China. Shanghai and Shenzhen bounced back after liquidity injections in China, it's kind of a double edged sword. If these indexes sustain the comeback, that's great! It means the supply chains are coming back, the Dow will reach new heights. If these indexes collapse, that's great! Those supply chains will move to another country, be restored, and the Dow will reach new heights.

No matter what, Wall Street wins.
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Will need to make a shopping list out of what everybody is panic selling.
 
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‘Mission: Impossible 7’ Venice, Italy Shoot To Halt Due To Coronavirus
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UPDATED with statement from Paramount: after 11:57PM post: As the number of cases of the coronavirus swell in Italy to a reported 219 cases, the biggest number outside of China, Japan, and South Korea, the Venice, Italy local government has put a stop to all public gatherings including a halt to the upcoming production of Paramount’s Mission: Impossible 7 in the floating city according to sources.

Paramount was to have set up production in Venice for three weeks on the Christopher McQuarrie-directed feature before it moved on to other foreign locations. Because borders are closing throughout Europe, and out of concern for their health and their safety, I hear that the Mission: Impossible 7 production will likely move the entire crew to another place, or to their home countries until they get a better sense of the continuing situation.
 
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