Coronavirus:

[healey36]

Man, I should have her guarding my refrigerator. I'd probably be alot lighter, lol. Good stuff, Robert...time well spent, but what the heck are you making?

Looks like "Baking butter pecan cupcakes "

That'll teach me not to read down the page...good grief.

[HONDO74]

Coronavirus in NYC: Region Is Now an Epicenter of Global Pandemic
https://news.yahoo.com/coronavirus-nyc- ... 24000.html

NEW YORK — Three weeks after its first coronavirus infection was discovered, the New York City region reached an alarming milestone Sunday: It now accounts for roughly 5% of the world’s confirmed cases, making it an epicenter of the global pandemic and increasing pressure on officials to take more drastic measures.

Moving to stem the crisis on multiple fronts, Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York pleaded with federal officials to nationalize the manufacturing of medical supplies and ordered New York City to crack down on people congregating in public. He suggested some streets could be closed, allowing pedestrians more space.

The governor on Sunday announced measures intended to prepare for a wave of patients, including setting up temporary hospitals in three New York City suburbs and erecting a massive medical bivouac in the Jacob Javits Center on Manhattan’s west side.

Already, hospitals across the New York region are reporting a surge of coronavirus patients and a looming shortage of critical supplies like ventilators and masks.

A rapid increase in testing has revealed the extent of the outbreak: Community spread of the highly contagious virus now appears commonplace.

All told, more than 15,000 people in New York state have tested positive, with the vast majority in the New York City region. That is about half of the cases in the United States. Worldwide, the pandemic has sickened more than 314,700 people, according to official counts.

About 1 in 8 patients in New York state has been hospitalized, and 114 people had died by Sunday morning, state officials said, though the toll in New York City rose rapidly during the course of the day. Cuomo said most of the deceased were over age 70, a cohort considered particularly susceptible to the disease’s respiratory attacks.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

The Chinese will eat anything.

Street Food in Hubu Alley Wuhan China
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_cont ... e=emb_logo

Chinese Street Food - Live Scorpions, Insects, Tiger Claws China
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_cont ... e=emb_logo

How about a nice bat for dinner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_cont ... e=emb_logo

Exactly. That's for damsure. Ever see a photo of the critter from which this latest disease was contracted? Oivey.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

The Chinese will eat anything.

Street Food in Hubu Alley Wuhan China
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_cont ... e=emb_logo

Chinese Street Food - Live Scorpions, Insects, Tiger Claws China
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_cont ... e=emb_logo

How about a nice bat for dinner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_cont ... e=emb_logo

Exactly. That's for damsure. Ever see a photo of the critter from which this latest disease was contracted? Oivey.

If you are referring to a pangolin, that has not been verified as the source.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Oh really? That's news to me. Thanks.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Oh really? That's news to me. Thanks.

There's really know way to verify the story unless you actually have the specific animal to test and even then, you don;t know where it got the virus - may just be a new mutation -- mutations happen all the time. Most don't have significant consequences. Remember we get mutations/variations of the flu regularly. Biology is not static but always evolving.

[HONDO74]

The conditions for such interspecies pathogen transfer are ripe in wet markets, which are common in parts of Asia, Africa and Latin America. Severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, resulted from a virus transferring from bats to civet cats and then humans. SARS, discovered in 2003, originated at a wet market similar to the one now suspected to be the origin of COVID-19.

An article circulating on social media claims COVID-19 did not originate in China. We rate this claim FALSE because it is not supported by research. The consensus among experts researching the virus places the beginning of its spread at the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan, China.

Fact check: Coronavirus originated in China, not elsewhere, researchers and studies say
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/fac ... 053783002/

[Rufus T. Firefly]

So it came from bad fish, or just a basket of bad clams...............

[HONDO74]

So it came from bad fish, or just a basket of bad clams...............

Ebola was traced to a bat from patient zero. A young boy who was playing in a bat cave that was in a tree..

[Rufus T. Firefly]

So it came from bad fish, or just a basket of bad clams...............

Ebola was traced to a bat from patient zero. A young boy who was playing in a bat cave that was in a tree..

Ok, a cave that was in a tree? Ebola has also been traced to various other primates, too.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Does Hawaii have no virus victims as yet?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Does Hawaii have no virus victims as yet?

Have had for quite a while now - last state to report a case was WV and now its locked down.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Does Hawaii have no virus victims as yet?

Have had for quite a while now - last state to report a case was WV and now its locked down.

"Have had..." no victims..."for quite a while now" ?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Does Hawaii have no virus victims as yet?

Have had for quite a while now - last state to report a case was WV and now its locked down.

"Have had..." no victims..."for quite a while now" ?

Island is in lock down - numbers are not all that high, but high enough given it's effectively an isolated island and getting supplies in/out right now is challenging. Maybe 20 new cases yesterday and 1st death today?

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Thanks.