Off topic “coronavirus”

[svelte]

[quote=zk]
I think the opposite is more likely. The coronavirus doesn’t affect the U.S. any more than SARS did. Everything turns out fine, no thanks to trump. Trump takes credit for everything turning out fine. Trump wins.[/quote]

Certainly possible! And let’s hope not!

(at least the Trump Wins part)

[SDNative2]

Bloomberg’s Mohamed El-Erian talks about Coronavirus, potential de-globalization, and less-open approach to travel.

At least a portion of the article is available here:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/four-stage-impacts-coronavirus-034429357.html

What are your thoughts on how this might affect SD coastal region housing prices? International tourism? U.S. travellers? Trump was touting national-travel as an alternative to international at a recent presser.

[PCinSD]

[quote=Myriad]Since the administration cut funding for the CDC, there’s limited testing available and no pandemic response team to counter that there really is a pandemic.[/quote]

[quote=svelte]If the stock market keeps tanking, if production lines stay closed, if thousands of people die, people may re-think whether his cuts to the CDC and other programs were such a wise thing and whether four years of Trump have left them better than before.[/quote]

Just so there’s no confusion, you 2 are claiming that Trump has caused and/or exacerbated the coronavirus by cutting the CDC budget and elimination of a pandemic response team.

Care to provide a link with the data to support this claim?

[Coronita]

New York reporting a case. With a much heavier dependence on public transportation, it could get ugly in NY and NJ… ride sharing, cabs, subways

[svelte]

[quote=PCinSD]

[quote=svelte]If the stock market keeps tanking, if production lines stay closed, if thousands of people die, people may re-think whether his cuts to the CDC and other programs were such a wise thing and whether four years of Trump have left them better than before.[/quote]

Just so there’s no confusion, you 2 are claiming that Trump has caused and/or exacerbated the coronavirus by cutting the CDC budget and elimination of a pandemic response team.

Care to provide a link with the data to support this claim?[/quote]

I did not state that, you put words in my mouth. I stated people may re-think whether cuts to the CDC were a good idea. They may come to the conclusion that it made the coronavirus spread worse, whether or not that has any basis in fact.

Personally, I think the whole coronavirus thing is overblown. Only the very old or those with medical conditions are dying, for the most part. We could say the same thing about the flu.

The worst part would be dealing with the illness and, at least if it continues, the isolation for two weeks.

I’m still going out to all the places I normally go, taking the trips I normally take, leading my normal life.

[Coronita]

apparently, people are running around with their heads cut off. Paranoid friend in Bay area wanted me to go buy some masks because the are all sold out in Bay area. Apparently, they are all sold out here too and costco is short of supplies like toilet paper.

Glad I have a Toto washlet. lol.

Food at ranch 99 is a bargain now.

[FlyerInHi]

Trump preciously disbanded the epidemic monitoring groups at NSC in the white house and DHS.

[Coronita]

So this has turned into a trump thread. Congrats Brian….again…. and again

. and again…

[outtamojo]

[quote=svelte][quote=PCinSD]

[quote=svelte]If the stock market keeps tanking, if production lines stay closed, if thousands of people die, people may re-think whether his cuts to the CDC and other programs were such a wise thing and whether four years of Trump have left them better than before.[/quote]

Just so there’s no confusion, you 2 are claiming that Trump has caused and/or exacerbated the coronavirus by cutting the CDC budget and elimination of a pandemic response team.

Care to provide a link with the data to support this claim?[/quote]

I did not state that, you put words in my mouth. I stated people may re-think whether cuts to the CDC were a good idea. They may come to the conclusion that it made the coronavirus spread worse, whether or not that has any basis in fact.

Personally, I think the whole coronavirus thing is overblown. Only the very old or those with medical conditions are dying, for the most part. We could say the same thing about the flu.

The worst part would be dealing with the illness and, at least if it continues, the isolation for two weeks.

I’m still going out to all the places I normally go, taking the trips I normally take, leading my normal life.[/quote]

What we dont want is for the coronavirus to become a seasonal illness like the flu. Imagine getting the flu and then coronavirus then another strain of flu all in one season.

[Coronita]

[quote=outtamojo][quote=svelte][quote=PCinSD]

[quote=svelte]If the stock market keeps tanking, if production lines stay closed, if thousands of people die, people may re-think whether his cuts to the CDC and other programs were such a wise thing and whether four years of Trump have left them better than before.[/quote]

Just so there’s no confusion, you 2 are claiming that Trump has caused and/or exacerbated the coronavirus by cutting the CDC budget and elimination of a pandemic response team.

Care to provide a link with the data to support this claim?[/quote]

I did not state that, you put words in my mouth. I stated people may re-think whether cuts to the CDC were a good idea. They may come to the conclusion that it made the coronavirus spread worse, whether or not that has any basis in fact.

Personally, I think the whole coronavirus thing is overblown. Only the very old or those with medical conditions are dying, for the most part. We could say the same thing about the flu.

The worst part would be dealing with the illness and, at least if it continues, the isolation for two weeks.

I’m still going out to all the places I normally go, taking the trips I normally take, leading my normal life.[/quote]

What we dont want is for the coronavirus to become a seasonal illness like the flu. Imagine getting the flu and then coronavirus then another strain of flu all in one season.[/quote]

It will. too late. But given the attention to it it won’t be long before there’s a vaccine. And then there will be mutations and then more vaccines. Biotech will do well.
If there’s any possibility of once infected, your body can build an auto-immune response, then sign me up, Id rather get it sooner than later.
I’m of the opinion that eventually, it’s just a matter of time we all get it.

Most of the disposable masks won’t even work,even most of of the N95 ones..Need N100/P100 really. The ones you really need are the ones one uses to paint a car. I have them,and even then, they have to be put on correctly..There’s been times I had mine on and started to paint and realized that a proper seal wasnt created between my face and the mask because I could smell it. So I doubt most people would even know how to properly put it on to be effective.

Bare minimum if you are really *that* worried

[FlyerInHi]

With regard to how well the US is prepared, how the Trump administration is handling the matter is very relevant. What’s most concerning is that government scientists and officials are not able to talk to the press without clearing with Pence’s office first.

Pence is well known to be anti-science.

[Coronita]

Keep in mind how the world got into this mess to begin with.

Ghetto China, and PRCs failure to recognize this was a problem even when doctors and medical professionals (some who have died) were warning people this was a SARS like virus.

One positive aspect though, is the world has woken up that it depended on China way too way too long, something that probably will now change moving forward. This virus did a much more effective job crippling China’s manifacturing basis and economy than the tarriffs did. Good

[FlyerInHi]

What a miserable, negative, destructive attitude, flu. We don’t have to do business with China If we don’t want to, but we should want development and prosperity for everyone. Win-win. There is room for everyone to prosper.

[PCinSD]

[quote=FlyerInHi]Trump preciously disbanded the epidemic monitoring groups at NSC in the white house and DHS.[/quote]

Is it your suggestion that Trump has done things that caused the spread of coronavirus?

[Coronita]

I call this Karma paying the PRC Communist government back, which is long overdue. Now, PRC has a choice. Continue as it has been all along, or reform. World is watching.

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