Corona Virus - are we doomed ?

[Texan]

Anarchy within three days if the supermarket shelves run out....googling seems to suggest this....
Am I being an alarmist...not really...I knew this years ago....(2008)

I have locks on my chicken coop, food for weeks, and thousands of rounds of ammo and 4 adults at home who are capable of home defense. I don't look forward to this, but I feel somewhat prepared.

Of course, I'm travelling for work often and my family may have to defend the home without me until I can return. I have to go out and bring home the bacon.

[billy the kid]

Anarchy within three days if the supermarket shelves run out....googling seems to suggest this....
Am I being an alarmist...not really...I knew this years ago....(2008)

I have locks on my chicken coop, food for weeks, and thousands of rounds of ammo and 4 adults at home who are capable of home defense. I don't look forward to this, but I feel somewhat prepared.

Of course, I'm travelling for work often and my family may have to defend the home without me until I can return. I have to go out and bring home the bacon.

Good to hear from you Tex...
Im retired and live in a high rise on the Gold Coast so I dont have any chicken coops to worry about...
Stay safe and drive carefully....

[Juliar]

Invest in toilet rolls!!!

[Black Orchid]

That ship has probably already sailed.

[Juliar]

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[Juliar]

Would you believe it Juliar Gillard might have the virus!!!!!



WUHAN VIRUS CULLS THE HUMAN HERD—BUT IS THERE AN UPSIDE?
By Howell Woltz -March 16, 20204310


Corona virus culls humans like wolves cull buffalo.

The world is in various forms of lockdown to avoid the inevitable—a trimming of the human herd.
It’s disconcerting to reach the age and time of life where you are the one the wolves would choose to trim out of the herd, but that’s life—and death.

It’s Mother Nature’s way and I respect it—even though I heard from a reliable source that Covid-19 might have had a little help from the P-4 lab on the outskirts of Wuhan.

My beloved Warsaw is in lock-down to prevent the spread of this killer disease. Sure, it’s over-hyped, but on the other hand—it seems to be working. Only a few deaths today and the spread is rapidly grinding to a halt.

The weak and old are dying. The young and healthy are recovering.

Once we reach a 60% level of infection/exposure, Mother Nature kicks in with an incredible defensive mechanism yet to be understood—herd immunity.

She’ll take care of us like she always has, like the creator intended when he put her in charge

That’s right. Once 60% of us are exposed to this virulent form of flu, our human herd develops its own defense mechanism. How?

They haven’t a clue, but it happened with Covid 1-18, and it will happen again on #19, with or without a vaccine.

So as soldiers are closing and barricading the roads in and out of my ancient city, I’ve been thinking.

By Monday morning, only food and necessary deliveries will be allowed—which at first seems a little scary—but I’ve realised that it’s not all bad.

You see our borders are also closing for the first time since The Schengen Agreement was signed on June 14, 1985—but yesterday when guards starting dragging truckloads of combat-aged Muslims out of trucks and containers at the new border checks (15 Afghan soldiers in just one lorry)—it occurred to me that there are some upsides to all of this pain.

And it’s not just stopping the endless flood of young Muslim men invading Europe. It’s much more—and it’s all for the better.

Borders. Boundaries. An end to the terrible Globalists. A return to National Sovereignty. Hmmm

We’re going to lose a lot from our herd to this Chinese disease—yes, that’s where it came from and they deserve the credit, so I’ll continue calling it that.

But think of it. This killer has done something that a very few of our weak-sister politricksters would on their own—it has forced them to act like leaders of nations again.

They must focus now on taking care of those they were meant to serve instead of being the head whores of open-door flop houses for the rest of the world.

So, let’s look on the bright side of Wuhan Fever
Not only are borders and boundaries springing up again—entire restructuring of our supply chains is occurring as well—and it’s all happening quite literally overnight.

“Chinese pharmaceutical companies have supplied more than 90 percent of U.S. antibiotics,” according to the New York Times—and a Chinese official hinted this week that those might be withheld as a threat to the U.S. as leverage on trade issues—and if they do, it would be good thing in my opinion.



Yes, some of us will die for lack of medicine, but it will force my home nation and everyone else’s to wake up to the dangers of allowing a Communist totalitarian gang bent on world control to hold us hostage for basic needs.

The last penicillin producer in America, as example, was shuttered in 2004, largely due to unfair trade practices by China and weak U.S. leadership allowing it—but one will spring up within days now, just like two surgical mask businesses did last week.

Surgical mask and latex glove manufacturing moved to China decades ago, but they’re rolling off the assembly line in Texas by the thousands as I write—and were up and running within weeks—thanks to private entrepreneurs and the elimination of thousands of regulations under President Trump—more of which were ditched yesterday as part of his declaration of a National Emergency.

In fact, the re-location of the supply chains just from the Hubei Province will leave China weakened for decades, and all of our nations will be strengthened in the process.

Jobs—real manufacturing jobs—are already flooding back to America, for example. Even in the midst of this crisis, 273,000 new jobs sprung up just last month and unemployment dropped to a record low of 3.5%.

There are only two losers in all of this—the Chinese Communist Party and the Soros One Worlders. They’re both done by the end of this pandemic.

It won’t happen overnight, but it will happen. The world has seen the dangers of totalitarianism and the Chinese people will demand a change—in order to survive now that China’s weakness has been exposed (they’re $40 trillion in debt and entering a steep recession).

The other form of totalitarianism—Globalism—the one that brought on this pandemic—will be the other loser.

And I look forward to writing both of their obituaries.

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[Juliar]

If you are old and frail then you can look forward to dying from the corona virus.



Why are older people more at risk of coronavirus?
Author Hassan Vally March 17, 2020 3.20pm AEDT

As we learn more about COVID-19, it’s increasingly clear that your risk of severe illness and death increases with age.

Children under nine years of age seem to be largely unaffected, either with no or mild symptoms. None have died as a result of the infection.

People over the age of 80 years and those with chronic diseases are the most vulnerable. For those over 80, approximately 15% of those infected will die.



The death rate starts to increase for those over 50 years of age. Those under 50 years who are infected have a death rate of 0.2-0.4%, while for those 50-59 years it’s 1.3%.

For those 60-69 years it’s 3.6%, for 70 to 79 year olds it’s 8.0% and for those over 80 years of age it is 14.8%.

A similar picture is emerging when looking at the increased risk of severe illness and death of those with underlying conditions.


Read on for the gloomy prediction here

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[Juliar]

Goodness Gracious!!! Is the COVID-19 UN population cull weakening already ???? Then it was MADE in CHINA!!!



The coronavirus is weakening—says scientist
AMM 18.03.20.



The CDC estimates that as many as 56,000 people globally die from the flu or flu-like illness each year.

Don’t toss your face mask away just yet. The media is bound to be loaded with teasers of salvation from the dreaded lurgy that has sent millions more people insane than COVID-19 has disposed of. Every enterprising kid with a chemistry set is burning the midnight oil in search of, well… it’s really fame, isn’t it? Fame, because the destruction of COVID-19 is hardly the worst thing to whisk us off this mortal coil.

In 1919 the Spanish flu knocked off about 15,000 Aussies from a population of 5 million. It killed 500 million globally. Given the way so many brainless idiots are behaving in supermarket aisles, Coles, Woolworths and Aldi could become the new killing fields of the 21st Century—oops, and IGA. The figures above should bring some perspective to matters.

A team of Singapore-based scientists has uncovered the first glimmer of hope that the COVID-19 virus could be mutating into a less virulent strain after discovering key protein suspected to affect the virus’s transmission and severity has disappeared in some patients.



Scientists glimpse sign of COVID-19 weakening
Source: Amanda Hodge, News Corp

In an academic paper, still under peer review but provided to The Australian, the Duke National University of Singapore team reported the protein “deletion” discovered in eight Singapore ­patients between February 9 and March 2 was consistent with those found at the tail end of the 2003 SARS outbreak, and could signal a weakening of the disease.

Duke NUS team leader Wang Linfa, an Australian virologist who sequenced and named Australia’s bat-borne Hendra horse virus, said the discovery was significant because “it’s important for the world to know that, just like SARS and MERS, (COVID-19) can change”.
Among the first hallmarks of the novel coronavirus identified early by World Health Organisation scientists was that it was ­genetically more stable than its ­severe acute respiratory syndrome and Middle East respiratory syndrome predecessors.

Professor Wang told The Australian that the Singapore discovery “shows the virus can make major changes and we are only two months in”.
“Our first confirmed case in Singapore was January 22 and by February 9 we were already seeing a major genetic change.

“From now on, we can use this genetic marker to really furrow and answer the question people want to know — whether this new strain of virus is less transmissible or less severe, or both.

“We know the virus can survive without ORF8 but it may not be able to cause disease as easily.”

Scientists studying COVID-19 had already detected an early mutation of it into two distinct L and S strains as a result of changes to the ORF8 protein (Open Reading Frame).

Viruses are made up of proteins that serve different functions, and the specific function of the COVID-19’s ORF8 protein is not fully known.
In the eight Singapore patients, that whole protein disappeared, strengthening the hypotheses that ORF8 plays a significant role in the virus’s adaptation.

A study last year by German scientists who grew the SARS virus with and without the ORF8 in test tubes, found that without the ORF8 protein, the virus was less fit and grew more slowly.

Just 500 viruses from COVID-19 patients have been ­sequenced by scientists across the world, a fraction of the more than 150,000 people who have been infected with the disease since the outbreak began late last year in central China’s Hubei province, and the ORF8 deletion has so far been detected only in Singapore.

Professor Wang said he expected scientists studying the novel coronavirus would now be “zooming into the ORF8 region” in all ­future sequencing.
He also warned, however, that his team’s findings must still be proved through cell and animal studies, and any definitive conclusion on whether it could signal the weakening of the virus was still several months away.

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[Juliar]

The COVID-19 is cleaning up the Muzzies. The coronavirus is killing one person every 10 minutes in Iran!!!!


Is this God's revenge on the heathen Devil Worshippers ?



Give us our daily dose of virus—courtesy corona
AMM 20.03.20.

COVID-19 is perhaps a throwback in kind to the old biblical days when Egypt and surrounds were decimated by pestilence and plague, and the juicy intrigue of the beautiful Nefertiti.

Iran has jumped into the virus fray with a death every ten minutes. Let us pray: Give us this day our daily coronavirus, and infect those who trespass against us or dare to visit! 1,284 now dead.

Sobering figures of the death toll due to the coronavirus have been disclosed by a health spokesman in Iran, where almost 150 people are now dying each day — at a rate of six every hour.

The coronavirus is killing one person every 10 minutes in Iran, the health ministry spokesman tweeted on Thursday, as the death toll in the Middle East’s worst-affected country climbed to 1,284.


A life lost every 10 minutes in Iran to COVID-19, first royal tests positive, airline staff to become health workers
Source: Reuters/ABC

“Based on our information, every 10 minutes one person dies from the coronavirus and some 50 people become infected with the virus every hour in Iran,” tweeted Kianush Jahanpur, the head of public relations and information in the ministry of Health and Medical Education.

Iran’s deputy Health Minister Alireza Raisi said the total number of infections had reached 18,407 in the Islamic Republic.
The government has ordered the closure of schools and universities and banned sports, cultural and religious gatherings. Iran has also closed four holy Shi’ite shrines.

The virus has also dampened Iran’s celebrations for the Nowruz New Year that begin on Friday.

Authorities have urged people to stay home and avoid travelling during the holiday period to help contain the spread.
“With 149 new deaths in the past 24 hours, the death toll from the virus has reached 1,284. Unfortunately we had 1,046 new cases of infection since yesterday,” Mr Raisi said on state television.

Royal tests positive to virus
Prince Albert of Monaco has tested positive for COVID-19, becoming the first monarch to be diagnosed with the coronavirus.
A statement from the palace said the 62-year-old was tested for the virus earlier this week, and that his health “does not inspire any concern”.
The prince will continue to work from his private apartments and will closely monitored by his personal doctor and specialist from Monaco’s Princess Grace Hospital Centre.

Prince Albert urged Monaco’s 39,000 inhabitants to adhere to quarantine rules to halt the spread of the virus, the statement read.
Airline staff to become health workers

Over a thousand laid-off SAS airline workers in Sweden are being offered fast-track healthcare training to help Sweden’s beleaguered healthcare system to fight the coronavirus.

SAS has laid off 10,000 staff, or 90 per cent of its workforce, temporarily as demand for flights has “more or less disappeared” after many European countries shut their borders or advised against travel.

Sophiahemmet University will run a three-day pilot for 30 people at the end of March with the hope of extending the course to hundreds more shortly.
“There are incredibly competent people who will be able to offer relief to our healthcare immediately after completing the training so that doctors and nurses can to an even greater extent devote themselves to caring for patients,” Johanna Adami, principal at the University said.
The course will be free of charge and the companies involved with the training are not seeking to make a profit. Funding is provided by the Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg foundation.

The students will be trained in providing information to patients and their families, sterilising beds and equipment and basic administrative duties.
In Australia, Qantas and Jetstar will temporarily stand down two-thirds of their 30,000 employees from late March until at least the end of May. Virgin Australia is grounding its international fleet.

More African countries closed their borders on Thursday as the coronavirus’ local spread threatened to turn the continent of 1.3 billion people into an alarming new front for the pandemic.

“About 10 days ago we had about five countries [with the virus],” WHO’s Africa chief Dr Matshidiso Moeti said.
Now 34 of Africa’s 54 countries have cases, with the total close to 650.

It’s an “extremely rapid evolution,” Dr Moeti said. The first sub-Saharan Africa case was announced February 28.
Dr Moeti said she did not believe that large numbers of infected people were going undetected in Africa.
However, she did acknowledge a challenge in the shortage of testing kits. Forty-three countries have testing capability, up from two when the outbreak began.

Some African nations began cracking down on alcohol sales to help prevent the coronavirus’ spread.
South Africa — where the number of cases jumped to 150 from 116 — said all places that sell alcohol for drinking on site must close from 6:00pm to 9:00am, never serving more than 50 people at a time.

In Uganda, President Yoweri Museveni has barred attendance at bars and clubs, calling limiting “merry-making” a new front in virus prevention.
“Drunkards sit close to one another. They speak with saliva coming out of their mouth. They are a danger to themselves,” he said.
Meanwhile, a day after the US Embassy in Ethiopia issued a security alert about reports of attacks on foreigners accused of having the virus, that country’s health minister appealed for calm.

European leaders have closed the Union’s external borders for 30 days, with an option to extend.
EU countries have also introduced national lockdowns, closing bars, restaurants and cinemas, and calling off events that bring together large numbers of people.

The European Central Bank launched a 750 billion euro ($1,357 billion) emergency bond purchase scheme, taking its total bond buying to a massive 1.1 trillion euros, arguably the biggest such program globally.

It also provided banks with extra liquidity and eased capital requirements so that they can handle bigger problems with repayments of loans from borrowers.

The EU is also paying 75 per cent of the costs of flying back EU nationals from around the globe.

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[sprintcyclist]

This is all looking a bit scary.

Apparently it is more like pneumonia than 'the flu'.
Hence more elderly and those with a pre-existing condition dying to it.
It is very contagous. Hence localised areas of mass infections.

The scenario is bad.
Many people we know may not be here in 6 months time