Wuhan Coronavirus: Megathread - Got too big

[spiritofamermaid]

Two more cases in Tennessee. One in Shelby County (county where Memphis is) and Davidson County (where Nashville is).

First case of the coronavirus confirmed in Shelby County, health department says

Shelby County has it's first case of the coronavirus.

www.fox13memphis.com

First case of coronavirus confirmed in Davidson County

NASHVILLE, TN (WSMV) – Mayor Cooper announced at a press conference Sunday morning at the Mero Department of Public Health that Davidson County has its first confirmed case of coronavirus.

www.wsmv.com

They aren't releasing any info on the SC person (not even sex), other than the case was travel-related, but the Davidson County one is an adult female in her 50s, NOT travel-related (so I'm assuming community spread), and is a Nashville resident, who has a mild case and is at home.

A Shelby County Schools employee (the admin that all schools in Shelby County belong to except Collierville, a suburb of Memphis farthest away) was in contact with patient and has been quarantined.

Shelby County Schools employee, UTHSC faculty member in quarantine after contact with Memphis COVID-19 patient

A Shelby County Schools employee and a faculty member at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center are under 14-day quarantines after coming into contact with an individual now diagnosed with coronavirus.

www.wmcactionnews5.com

Speaking of Collierville, in January they shut down all schools for two days to disinfect. Since they have their own school system, idk if other schools followed. (Will update with link if I find it, have family there so is how I know).


St. Jude has also restricted visitors as well as canceling work trips.

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital cancels work trips, limits visitors to reduce coronavirus risk

Local health leaders over the weekend confirmed the first case of coronavirus here in Shelby County.

www.wmcactionnews5.com

Also Missouri being the best and brightest of the South, as usual.

Missouri family breaks coronavirus quarantine to attend father-daughter dance

Members of the family reportedly broke the quarantine after being advised to stay home.

www.wmcactionnews5.com

Edit: If people could archive the links I'd appreciate it, not able to do so atm.
Edit 2: Clarified what Collierville is

 

[pull over dat ass too fat]

Hold that thought.

https://archive.li/MqZB7

The ENTIRE US yield curve dipped below 1%. All bonds are expected to return less than 1%.

Something's not right...

also gas is under $2 in the midwest due to crude oil taking a plunge.
brace for impact, most of the consequences will probably be felt in the next year or two.

 

[Yoda]

https://twitter.com/rezero_official/status/1236940635606671362
They delayed fuckin' Re:Zero over this. Fuck it, this is war.

Not even the NEETs are safe.
Reminds me of that Twilight Zone episode where the nerd survives the apocalypse in a library only to break his glasses at the very end

 

[Goddessoftheshire]

So Vermont has it's official first case of WuFlu.

Health Officials Announce First Coronavirus Case In Vermont

Updated 8 p.m. 3/8/2020 A Bennington County resident has Vermont’s first confirmed case of COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus , the

www.vpr.org

Asshole with WuFlu who works in the medical field at Dartmouth told to stay home after coming back from Italy. Decides not to listen and goes to an event in White River Junction VT.

Told to Stay Home, Suspected Coronavirus Patient Attended Event With Dartmouth Students

The worker at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in New Hampshire was confirmed with the disease only after attending the mixer. Now a second man has tested positive.

www.nytimes.com

Apologies if posted already the thread is moving so quickly that I may have missed it.

 

[Vecr]

Not even the NEETs are safe.
Reminds me of that Twilight Zone episode where the nerd survives the apocalypse in a library only to break his glasses at the very end

People are more likely to have polycarbonate glasses now, so I suppose that's good.

 

[IrishGuy088]

What the hell is this? Some sort of satire?

No, it's just bigots.

I have an anecdote for us. One of my siblings that does work with the the National Institute of Health (USA) said that they are not too concerned over there. And that people are still shaking hands. My sibling thought this was good news. It is troubling that they won't even stop handshakes.

All the government coordination in the world is meaningless if the individual on the ground thinks they are immune to consequences. The worst part I have seen is that people are pushing back against common sense cleanliness in the context of the WuFlu and totally ignoring all the other massive positive effects there would be if society cleaned up a little and was slightly more disciplined.

 

[Barnard]

Poland's 17th case is a 56 year old woman, currently in induced coma. Infection traced back to another sick person returning from Italy. Still no cases in my city, so far things are flowing as normal. Just came back from an appointment, haven't seen a single person wearing a mask or anything.

 

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Seeing claims on Twitter/Telegram that the plague carrier was a 'walls for me but not for thee' type- an 'Alan Berger'.

Berger is a 55 year old Yehudi from Englewood, NJ, which matches the media reports. Might just be spergs running searches until they found one that matched, might be a leak from someone who's been told.

It should be interesting to see whether tests are made available to attendees. Will regular CPAC attendees be considered valuable enough to be allowed to test, or is the reason they're emphasising that the carrier was hanging out in the backrooms to avoid needing to offer them tests?

Lol.. straight from the mouth of Bannon's puppet:

https://archive.li/rTyPZ

1. Potential CPAC virus carriers can't get tested without the name of the plaguebearer
2. CPAC still attempting to suppress the name of the plaguebearer

EDIT: Even the Daily Mail is refusing to come out and say it. Wonder if they've been threatened directly?

https://archive.is/zvZmA

https://archive.is/8PZWx

 

[Dushlan]

This page is going be useful for chileans here, since it shows all the current confirmed cases and the regions where they are. So far, there are 13 cases. Gets updated every day at 12:00 pm.

Casos confirmados en Chile COVID-19

Casos COVID-19 en Chile Casos confirmados por laboratorio* Región Casos nuevos Casos totales % Casos totales** Fallecidos Arica y Parinacota 10 63 1 % 0 Tarapacá 3 26 0 % 0 Antofagasta 8 77 1 % 1 Atacama 2 8...

www.minsal.cl

It's getting really close to where I live...

Very useful thanks, it's also getting close to me. I want to believe their self quarantine worked, but I bet we will see if it did in 2 weeks or more.

 

[mindlessobserver]

What the hell is this? Some sort of satire?

"The Root" is the black person version of "The Daily Stormer".

 

[Starving Autist]

248 cases in Sweden as of today, 147 of them in Stockholm. Most people I've talked to at work think it's a nothingburger that only strikes the elderly, is pretty much just a cold and that it will pass soon. I skipped 30 pages so I'm not sure if any swedestani kiwis have updated the numbers, rate me late if someone has.

 

[Ponderous Pillock]

I don't believe the Western response is containment. If it were, we would have shut down our borders and put people into longer quarantines.

I think the response is controlled exposure. We know the virus can't be contained, we are mostly focused on slowing the spread to avoid overwhelming our healthcare systems.

The UK's trying a containment approach that isn't going to kill the economy and the country as a whole. Not only is slamming everything shut because of less than a thousand people being infected (we've only just broken the 300 barrier) impractical it's utterly stupid and a pointless thing to do.

Going that far is ridiculous, this isn't a "just a flu bro" this is still very small numbers of people in the grand scheme of things. Precautions currently taken will help slow the whole thing down as the only other result is ridiculous draconianism that not even brits would tolerate.

That being said, panic buying is becoming more and more widespread inside the UK with reports from Wales to Lincolnshire of people buying stuff en masse. Apparently the people responsible for this are that wonderful cesspool of Karens known as Mumsnet who have a preppers list, so stuff on the shelves especially in Tescos across the country are seeing individual supermarkets straining at the seams and staff are increasingly demoralized and stressed. Tills are being shut and goods actively confiscated from trollies in tesco due to them imposing the 5 item limit on certain things. If it gets worse, security might be actually increased at supermarkets.

 

[737 MAX Stan Account]

TFW you will never die on the field of glory and instead die because of the Sinos lack of sanitation.

 

[Dog-O-Tron 5000v5.0]

Listening to a bit of Hannity and Rush today, their official line is this is still a nothingburger/Liberal op and anyone worried is an idiot. Glenn Beck was a bit more along the lines of "don't panic, but this will change how we live our day to day lives forever" (less travelling and mass gatherings as a new normal).

 

[Gar For Archer]

Listening to a bit of Hannity and Rush today, their official line is this is still a nothingburger/Liberal op and anyone worried is an idiot. Glenn Beck was a bit more along the lines of "don't panic, but this will change how we live our day to day lives forever" (less travelling and mass gatherings as a new normal).

I don’t think it’ll change our behavior beyond the active timeframe of the epidemic. People aren’t going to just stop attending large public gatherings or stop traveling when there’s no active threat of disease.

If we’re lucky, some companies will start questioning whether or not it would be preferable to return some of their manufacturing capacity to the US. Other than that, I can’t really see this having any long-term effects.

 

[EmuWarsVeteran]

I think I will soon post my thoughts. Like everyone else, I get philosophical with tragedies. I think that's what happens when the brain can't explain why life is like it is. But first:

According to a doctor I was talking to yesterday, the situation in Spain is getting worse by the minute. He said Spain is right now just as Italy was ten days ago. It's clear that most Western goverments have understimated this outbreak, just look what's happening now.

He is working in Madrid btw

MADRID is the key here. It's been hit way harder than the rest of spain by last wave. The reason why is simple, as I told you, it's a massive city, dense too. I mean, seville for instance ie massive, but that's because it's a sprawling semi industrialized mess, hell half the area is VILLAGES that just kept getting wider. It's got flats but it's also got a lot of normal homes. Cadiz is denser but the rest of cadiz province is semi rural to rural and the city is tiny as fuck, it's a bloody island off the coast. Barcelona I guess would be the second densest mess. But, it's not madrid, not by a long shot. Also madrid has by far the worst air in the country. As I mentioned, it's known for having a "boina" (a type of hat), a pollution cloud permanently on top of it like a fucking omen welcoming everyone to hell. I mean, from within the city you don't see it as much, though the sky doesn't look as blue as everywhere else, but when you get in or out... it's literally a brown flat cap of doom, it can get scary. They've been working on fixing the air since Podemos got in charge but, well, there's only so much they could do so far. Shit's better than ever but that ain't saying much.

Point is, if there was a place in spain that would suffer, that would be madrid, thankfully the gov is taking it seriously, closing schools and events and doing everything it can to slow it down WITHOUT just quarantining areas and dropping democracy like the italians. I think residents, specially younger ones, may not realize it isn't that bad so far. Madrid's people can get polarized and panicky, far more than most of the rest of spain, which is probably due to the effect pollution has on anxiety, but if they adhere to the protocol shit's buffed enough and they can make it without a collapse. The business counsel has been bitching about the economy a lot and hilariously enough praising god damned Merkel, which has basically labelled them as traitors in the public eye, so we'll see how the economy goes. But the healthcare can take it.

 

[Barnard]

Two cases of coronavirus confirmed (Updated) - Cyprus Mail

Two cases of coronavirus have been confirmed in Cyprus, the health minister Constantinos Ioannou said on Monday. The two are a 25-year-old man from Limassol and 64-year-old health professional from Nicosia. The cases are among the 42 people who were being tested for coronavirus on Monday The...

cyprus-mail.com

The health professional had returned from Britain on March 3 and had reported to medics on March 8. He works at a public health facility in the capital Nicosia and had had previous contact with patients, Ioannou said.

He had not been not tested at the airport, according to the minister, as the UK is not a high-risk country.

Ioannou said the 64-year-old did not enter self-isolation and came into contact with other people over the following days since his return.

He said it was “regrettable” that the second patient only reported to authorities on Sunday.

Truly well done.

 

[Shugo]

Lol.. straight from the mouth of Bannon's puppet:
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https://archive.li/rTyPZ

1. Potential CPAC virus carriers can't get tested without the name of the plaguebearer
2. CPAC still attempting to suppress the name of the plaguebearer

You want to be tested and effectively quarantined because you were in a big event with a known plague carrier? You better know the password or else.

These testing requirements are insane. That Bloomberg stream made sense for once.

 

[IrishGuy088]

1. Potential CPAC virus carriers can't get tested without the name of the plaguebearer
2. CPAC still attempting to suppress the name of the plaguebearer

Release the whistleblower's name.

... wait what?

 

[LetThemEatCake]

The UK's trying a containment approach that isn't going to kill the economy and the country as a whole. Not only is slamming everything shut because of less than a thousand people being infected (we've only just broken the 300 barrier) impractical it's utterly stupid and a pointless thing to do.

Going that far is ridiculous, this isn't a "just a flu bro" this is still very small numbers of people in the grand scheme of things. Precautions currently taken will help slow the whole thing down as the only other result is ridiculous draconianism that not even brits would tolerate.

That being said, panic buying is becoming more and more widespread inside the UK with reports from Wales to Lincolnshire of people buying stuff en masse. Apparently the people responsible for this are that wonderful cesspool of Karens known as Mumsnet who have a preppers list, so stuff on the shelves especially in Tescos across the country are seeing individual supermarkets straining at the seams and staff are increasingly demoralized and stressed. Tills are being shut and goods actively confiscated from trollies in tesco due to them imposing the 5 item limit on certain things. If it gets worse, security might be actually increased at supermarkets.

Just been into town, and today - unlike yesterday - all the toilet paper is gone in the cheaper end shops.The nice supermarket still has plenty and is displaying it prominently. Is there a sudden fear we're all going to shit ourselves to death? Come on.

The liquid soaps mostly went out of stock last week. and are almost totally gone now, a couple of bottles left per shop, the hand santizers all went the week before that. This week is apparently ludicrous inexplicable fear about toilet paper week. It's obvious this is monkey-see, monkey-do behavior led by the media reporting on massively silly cunts elsewhere (ok, Australia) tasing each other over the right to buy all 1500 remaining rolls. Yesterday, the TP shelves were fine. Today - stripped. Probably down to a handful of silly selfish bastards buying more than they can use in a fucking year. I hope they get buried under it.

No food shortages where I am, just this media-led dumbassery. How much bumfodder do these cunts really think they need? And where the fuck are they putting it?

I notice bar soap is relatively depleted, but still in stock. Funny. There's no difference in cleaning power between liquid and bar except in people's silly minds and if you keep it dry it might actually last longer, but there you go. Fashion!

I keep asking, did nobody wash their fucking hands before this past couple of weeks to inspire this sudden 'oh, must buy ALL THE SOAP' shit? I don't think a lot of people did which explains the normal mass sicknesses that go around every year.

I also keep wondering why people are still coughing their thick, mucus-ridden cough and spluttering about without covering their mouths despite all the warnings going on. Yes, that applies to you, aged boomer-type person. And you, spotty teenager. And you, lady, should teach you kids better manners that snotting over everything and shoving their hands on everything in their path.

I have an elderly relative cancelling a clinic appointment this week because he's so bothered he'll pick up something awful - maybe corona, maybe something else - at the hospital (wouldn't be the first time) with everyone still coughing and spluttering like morons in the waiting rooms, because if he gets it, he'll likely pass it onto his immune-compromised wife and kill her.