Coronavirus:

[healey36]

What's the chance that the thief can read? I'm thinking it's unlikely.

[healey36]

They won't have to fire one shot to take us over complete. Just buy us out with all the money we spent buying cheap Chinese junk.

China is not the largest holder of US debt. Japan is, approx. 1.25T. China, approx. 1T. The largest holder of US debt is us, aka we owe the money to ourselves.

Reminds me, I'm sitting on a mountain of paper Series-EE savings bonds. I better start jettisoning those things.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

What's the chance that the thief can read? I'm thinking it's unlikely.

I'm thinking it's very high actually and local kid as well.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

They won't have to fire one shot to take us over complete. Just buy us out with all the money we spent buying cheap Chinese junk.

China is not the largest holder of US debt. Japan is, approx. 1.25T. China, approx. 1T. The largest holder of US debt is us, aka we owe the money to ourselves.

Reminds me, I'm sitting on a mountain of paper Series-EE savings bonds. I better start jettisoning those things.

China is rapidly catching up and working hard to corner the market.

A mountain of EE's - yes, cash out, but how and where? Not like banks are letting customers inside right now.

[chuck]

China is rapidly catching up and working hard to corner the market.

Their own economy has taken a major hit from this pandemic. We'll have to see how all of this shakes out.

[healey36]

China is not the largest holder of US debt. Japan is, approx. 1.25T. China, approx. 1T. The largest holder of US debt is us, aka we owe the money to ourselves.

Reminds me, I'm sitting on a mountain of paper Series-EE savings bonds. I better start jettisoning those things.

China is rapidly catching up and working hard to corner the market.

A mountain of EE's - yes, cash out, but how and where? Not like banks are letting customers inside right now.

Actually, if they’re not too old and fully matured, probably worth hanging onto. They are readily liquid (under normal circumstances) and they pay anywhere from .75%-3.7% interest, which is considerably more than the tenth of a percent the banks pay you on your savings account.

[chuck]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjneNiDTtnA

Whenever I hear the president open his mouth to spew some half a*'d "advice" on the pandemic, the above clip is what I hear in my head. Only mayor Larry is Trump and Roy Scheider is saying president instead of mayor and "epicenter of Covid19 pandemic" instead of city.

Well, I guess we are number one in reported infections and the number of people who have died. No tweets touting that?

[HONDO74]

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio told New Yorkers Saturday that they can snap smartphone photos of social distancing violations and text them to authorities and “enforcement will come” as the coronavirus shutdown remains in place across the Big Apple.

“Now it is easier than ever,” he said in a video posted to his official Twitter account. “When you see a crowd, when you see a line that’s not distanced, when you see a supermarket that’s too crowded -- anything -- you can report it right away so we can get help there to fix the problem.”

New York City is the nation’s largest COVID-19 hotspot, with more than 131,000 confirmed cases and more than 13,000 deaths as of Saturday afternoon. That’s more than the entire state of New Jersey, which sits second to New York state in confirmed cases with more than 81,000.

There have been more than 716,000 confirmed coronavirus cases in the U.S. and at least 37,659 deaths.

The city’s social distancing guidelines include standing at least 6 feet apart from other people. De Blasio announced at the end of March that people violating them could face fines of up to $500.

The mayor opened Saturday’s video by praising city residents for largely adhering to the guidelines and for being “extraordinary at social distancing,” noting that people are normally used to bustling crowds throughout the five boroughs.

How does one summon such enforcement?

“Text the photo to 311-692 and action will ensue,” the mayor said, emphasizing the rhyming syllables.

This is going to cause more conflict and confrontations. But I am sure that is what De Blasio wants. A good distraction. Always keep the peasants fighting among themselves. Keeps them distracted from focusing on the important things.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

This is going to cause more conflict and confrontations. But I am sure that is what De Blasio wants. A good distraction. Always keep the peasants fighting among themselves. Keeps them distracted from focusing on the important things.

That's certainly Trump's strategy for everything

[up148]

This is going to cause more conflict and confrontations. But I am sure that is what De Blasio wants. A good distraction. Always keep the peasants fighting among themselves. Keeps them distracted from focusing on the important things.

That's certainly Trump's strategy for everything

Seems to be USA politics for decades or centuries, not just Trump. What have the DEM's being doing since his administration came into office. Harassment to the point of distraction.................just politics.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

This is going to cause more conflict and confrontations. But I am sure that is what De Blasio wants. A good distraction. Always keep the peasants fighting among themselves. Keeps them distracted from focusing on the important things.

That's certainly Trump's strategy for everything

Seems to be USA politics for decades or centuries, not just Trump. What have the DEM's being doing since his administration came into office. Harassment to the point of distraction.................just politics.

Just like the previous 8 years by the pubes

They don;t need to harass him; every time he opens his mouth he draws attention to yet another foolish statement or belief. Had any one managed to staple his mouth shut and take away his phone, he'd be a minuscule target. He's failed to learn what every president learns very quickly - be visible and speak only when absolutely necessary.

[HONDO74]

SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome)
https://www.who.int/ith/diseases/sars/en/

Cause
SARS coronavirus (SARS-CoV) – virus identified in 2003. SARS-CoV is thought to be an animal virus from an as-yet-uncertain animal reservoir, perhaps bats, that spread to other animals (civet cats) and first infected humans in the Guangdong province of southern China in 2002.

Prophylaxis
None. Experimental vaccines are under development.

Question
If they still don't have a vaccine for SARS. Will they really be able to develop one for Coranavirus.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

I would imagine that many individuals in that "administration" are working on their books, getting them ready for the day he is out of there and they are free to tell what really happened, and what a true bloviating embarrassment he really has been.

[chuck]

If they still don't have a vaccine for SARS. Will they really be able to develop one for Coranavirus.

SARS control is not based on a vaccine approach as one doesn't exit. Instead a drug is used to block the the virus ability to penetrate cell membranes in the lung, aka there is a treatment regimen.

We still don't know how Covid19 "works". One working theory is that the virus only exposes its weakness for a short time to actually perform the penetration and that window of opportunity is extremely short and extremely difficult to observe. Any vaccine is at least a year off (if ever) and there are no known drug regimens that seem to be able to block the virus. If you have an effective way to severely limit the disease's more lethal aspects you can relax the physical restrictions (social distancing). At this point in time the only method we have to control the spread is lock down/isolation. You either rapidly identify people that are infected and quarantine them which requires massive rapid screening/testing which we aren't/can't do or you assume anyone/everyone is a target and self isolate which we are trying to do.

We have already lost 40,000 plus citizens in about 10 weeks time. That's four times the number that were killed in ONE YEAR from the last swine flu pandemic about 10 years ago. I really have a hard time understanding how anyone is having difficulty understanding the severity of this disease.

[E7]

Well, I guess we are number one in reported infections and the number of people who have died.

How accurate do you think those figures are, and do you think that the information coming out of places like China is credible????? If they distorted information about the origin of the virus, why would you believe anything they put out now?????

I wouldn't trust the media in this country as far as I can toss a loaded cement truck.