Off topic “coronavirus”

[FlyerInHi]

You assume a lot flu.

I don’t let my ideology clout my judgement. We should praise what is done well and criticize what is done wrong. Simple as that. I don’t think China is handling the corona virus badly. It’s work in progress and they’re doing a good job as far as I see. That’s all.

Flu, you don’t make sense. You criticize the heavy handed approach but you said the quarantines were late. So you mean China should have been more heavy handed?
Plus you said we should have banned travel to and from China. Light, or heavy hand? Make up your mind.

[phaster]

[quote=spdrun]People eat fish from the ocean — that’s a wild animal. People eat venison that they hunt — it’s a delicacy to some. Every food comes with some risk. Intensive (“civilized”) pig and chicken farming is probably more responsible for spreading illness than eating snake meat.[/quote]

over a decade ago realized the eating animal protein had a high environmental cost, as well as a health cost (according to some studies),… so dramatically decreased my animal protein consumption

FWIW if you have not read the book “omnivore’s dilemma” ya might want to put it on your reading list

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlI-Czm4kB4

[spdrun]

^^^

I’m not opposed on cutting down on animal protein, but my point is that saying that snake meat is “uncivilized” while industrially-farmed animals are “civilized” is hypocritical.

[FlyerInHi]

[quote=spdrun]^^^

I’m not opposed on cutting down on animal protein, but my point is that saying that snake meat is “uncivilized” while industrially-farmed animals are “civilized” is hypocritical.[/quote]

People think that industrial animal meat magically appears shrink-wrapped In the supermarket, hence civilized, haha.

[Myriad]

It’s interesting that watch what’s happening as a case study in quarantining 1 billion people. At what point do people run out of food and the government has to create a system to distribute food to 30M people at home with minimal # of people. I guess a lot of instant noodles are involved.

[The-Shoveler]

I cannot imagine trying to quarantine say L.A. I seriously don’t think we could.

As I said before I cannot help but think we are not being told everything.

Anyway it will be interesting to see how much longer they can do it.

Note: It is now closer to 60 Million people under quarantine in the busiest transportation and industrial hub in the country, maybe the world.

[Coronita]

Lol… In Korea, “No Chinese Allowed”.

Asians are the most racist against each other when it comes down to self preservation n ..
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-30/fear-in-the-age-of-coronavirus-chinese-no-longer-welcome?srnd=premium

Pretty funny. But I still have to say, Air China still tops the list for what they published in their in flight magazine in 2016….

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/sep/07/air-china-inflight-mag-condemned-for-racist-guide-to-london

[Coronita]

…and if course….what a timely published article… Why some wild animals like bats are not meant to be eaten…

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/29/health/bats-viruses-coronavirus-scn/index.html

That pesky thing called science.

Dr Stathis Giotis, a virologist at the Department of Infectious Disease at Imperial College in London. “Bats are recognized as important reservoirs for emerging and re-emerging viruses with zoonotic potential.”

Folks comparing eatting wild fish to wild bats…..it’s ok, apology accepted…..

[ocrenter]

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[The-Shoveler]

Maybe put off booking that cruise

Over 6,000 people quarantined on cruise ship amid coronavirus scare

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/over-6000-people-quarantined-on-cruise-ship-amid-coronavirus-scare-164956214.html

one person coughed

[Myriad]

One sneeze killed the dinosaurs!

[Coronita]

So far, the virus doesn’t seem to making that much of an impact on the US markets as we saw some volatility going down then up , even now that WHO declared an emergency beyond the initial panic. Me thinks just like SARS, it’s probably.notngoing to be that big an issue in US.

But this is going to be a really big problem within China. Look at all the infected cases already.

[spdrun]

^^^ How many people are actually infected in China. Death percentage could be overstated since a lot of infected people could have mild to no symptoms.

[Coronita]

it doesn’t matter how many people die (from an economic perspective. From human life perspective, it’s sad) what matters is how many people are staying home and not either spending or making money. Also, I suspect the reason why this thing spreads is because of population density, which is why US or North America for that matter is safe.

US haters gotta hate though.

[The-Shoveler]

I got to imagine if you get it, you will know it.

I don’t think they shut down a good part of China for nothing.

Death toll now 212 (likely several times that IMO).

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