CORONA Main Coronavirus thread

packyderms_wife

Neither here nor there.


Summerthyme

Is this something I can pick up at my local farm store? It has a sizable livestock section with meds, etc.
 

packyderms_wife

Neither here nor there.
The Brazos County Health Department said the student had recently traveled to Wuhan, China where the coronavirus originated.

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BRAZOS COUNTY, Texas — A student at Texas A&M may have contracted the 2019 novel coronavirus, the university confirmed Thursday.
The Brazos County Health District is investigating the suspected case of coronavirus in a student who traveled from Wuhan, China, where it originated.
The student is being isolated at home while precautionary testing is done.

Now what I want to know was this a chinese student who went home for christmas and was returning to uni for Spring semester or was this a student of other nationality, aka an american who went over for other reasons? It makes a HUGE difference, even if the outcome is the same in that he has the virus. As I said earlier there's something like 10K chinese students studying at our universities at any given time here in the US.
 

naturallysweet

Has No Life - Lives on TB
Is this something I can pick up at my local farm store? It has a sizable livestock section with meds, etc.
Yes, they have it at my farm store.

And i second the get the flu shot recommendation being stupid. Worse, that makes it worse. The flu shot temporarily lowers the immune system. Which is why so many people get sick afterwards.
 

Capt. Eddie

Veteran Member
Tractor supply has it. Don't know if you have one in Ames, I haven't lived there since '93. Supposed to be taking my son to the Texas game at Hilton in a few weeks.
 
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bw

Fringe Ranger
Business, as was said earlier. Visiting factories making stuff for you.

11 million foreigners; mud huts or mansions, doesn't matter - question remains, why in gods name would someone from Texas or Anywhere, USA go there?
 

SmithJ

Veteran Member
Business, as was said earlier. Visiting factories making stuff for you.

Reminds me of something funny I saw on tv this morning. They had a feature on factories churning out surgical masks for all the people that are trying not to catch the Wuhan Flu. Talked about how demand was high. Talked about Americans also ordering the masks. The CHINESE MASKS......…..

Showed the little CHINESE workers, working overtime to make the masks. The masks that very well may already be infected...…...
 

Trivium Pursuit

Has No Life - Lives on TB
I'm hearing - unofficially - that the student is from China attending A&M. Spring classes began on the 13th.

Lovely. If incubation is, in fact, 3 weeks, what was said earlier here could be true. That is, "if it's in College Station, it's in Dallas"... Where I am, and Dennis is even closer.
 

samus79

Veteran Member
Lovely. If incubation is, in fact, 3 weeks, what was said earlier here could be true. That is, "if it's in College Station, it's in Dallas"... Where I am, and Dennis is even closer.

There’s a huge Chinese community in my area, it’s probably already spreading like wildfire here. Might have to shut myself indoors for awhile until I can get some better intel on the local situation.
 

TxGal

Day by day
Lovely. If incubation is, in fact, 3 weeks, what was said earlier here could be true. That is, "if it's in College Station, it's in Dallas"... Where I am, and Dennis is even closer.
I don't think anyone here is very comfortable right now. Plenty of airports here, lots of international travel, tons of college students. Even the drive between cities isn't very long....Austin to SA about two hrs, Austin to Dallas, about 2 hrs, etc...plenty of major universities. Houston has several, Huntsville has SHSU, College Station TAMU, Lubbock TT, San Marcos Texas State, and plenty of others. Sorry, left off UT in Austin. Internet is slowing down for me.

ETA: Everyone we know here is hanging on for some official word, and making plans ahead of news. I'm sure Texans have helped Amazon sell a lot today....
 

TorahTips

Membership Revoked
There’s a huge Chinese community in my area, it’s probably already spreading like wildfire here. Might have to shut myself indoors for awhile until I can get some better intel on the local situation.

There's a huge chinese population in my building!! That scares me, I see them in the lobby all the time with suitcases probably coming from china,
 

TheSearcher

Are you sure about that?
got this off a different site I belong to, LANGUAGE!

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If true, wow. This can go pear-shaped at any time, if it hasn't yet already. Just organically, it may go off-the-charts if the Chinese can't get a handle on it. If it was a bioweapon that got away from them, the Chinese could become pariahs of the first order. If it was distributed on purpose... it could be, and probably would be, considered an act of war.

That last part is conjecture, but I don't think it stinks TOO much of woo...
 

2DEES

Inactive
Has anyone actually read which age group is being sickened to worse? I have only had time to skim this thread. The above article says young and old?? Has anyone read the facts on that yet?
I haven't finished all 21 pages yet, but here is what China is reporting. Of the 8 people who have died 5 were men and 3 women. One was aged at 55 years but all the rest were 65 years or older and suffered from other various ailments. I'm sure all had weakened immune systems. Hopes this helps.
 

ktrapper

Veteran Member
I haven't finished all 21 pages yet, but here is what China is reporting. Of the 8 people who have died 5 were men and 3 women. One was aged at 55 years but all the rest were 65 years or older and suffered from other various ailments. I'm sure all had weakened immune systems. Hopes this helps.
Thanks 2DEES
 

pymaf

Senior Member
I have not been to the Choctaw Casino in Durant OK in months but there is a large number of Chinese that are from the Dallas area and play there several times a week. This is a very large casino and think about how easy it would spread there from touching slot buttons to table games(touching chips and cards)
 

MountainBiker

Veteran Member
It is too early for anyone to know how big a problem this is, but certainly the word pandemic is currently a gross exaggeration. Pandemics require both a high CAR (case acquisition rate, meaning it is highly contagious) and a high CFR (case fatality rate, meaning high % of people that acquire it are dying from it). Viruses mutate quickly which means the CAR & CFR can change along the way. The incubation period is the 3rd key ingredient in that the longer the incubation period, the more rapid the spread can be because people are contagious long before they know it. In a true pandemic you would see the number of sick and dying growing exponentially, not in a slow dribble.
 

Housecarl

On TB every waking moment
If true, wow. This can go pear-shaped at any time, if it hasn't yet already. Just organically, it may go off-the-charts if the Chinese can't get a handle on it. If it was a bioweapon that got away from them, the Chinese could become pariahs of the first order. If it was distributed on purpose... it could be, and probably would be, considered an act of war.

That last part is conjecture, but I don't think it stinks TOO much of woo...
Yeah, particularly when you consider the reported research with gene editing that they themselves have openly reported. That being said though, considering common practices in the PRC with regards to food safety, sanitation and such, this bug being in the wild on its own is definitely well within the range of the possible. When you add air and rail travel to that and all sorts of bad stuff is possible....
 

Shooter

Veteran Member
we have no idea exactly how many people are dieing in china. just like the U.S. goverment they will never tell you the truth for your own good,
 

eXe

Techno Junkie
‘She’s a TIMEBOMB’ Chinese woman hides Coronavirus to enter France - and brags online

‘She’s a TIMEBOMB’ Chinese woman hides Coronavirus to enter France - and brags online


A CHINESE woman who knew she was infected with the deadly coronavirus has disguised her symptoms by deliberately taking antipyretics and successfully boarded a plane to France. She then bragged about her actions online in photographs with friends she met on arrival, according to Chinese media sources.

Users of Chinese social media site Weibo were shocked and angry at the reckless and potentially deadly actions of the woman. One said: “This kind of person is the most shameless”. Another posted: “She is now a time bomb.” As the deathtoll hits 17 the "infected" woman posted about her "escape" from Wuhan and how she was enjoying food in a French city.

She posted: "Finally, I can have a good meal, it feels like I hacve been starving for two days. In a city of global delicacies, of course we have to eat food with Michelin Stars. This was also more successful, with no bugs. Just before I left, I has a low fever and was coughing quite heavily, I ate lots of medivine, which lowered my fever. finally, my fever went down, and I was able to exit."

The medicine she has taken is ikely to have been an antipyretic, which lowers the bodies temperature when fever hits.

The "infected" woman explained in a post that unfortunately if her infection was diagnosed, she would become a “super-infected person”.

This news comes as many more cases of those infected with the virus have been revealed, including Wang Guangfa, a member of the expert group of the Chinese National Health and Medical Commission who had visited Wuhan earlier and stated that the epidemic was “controllable and preventable”, but he has been diagnosed with Wuhan pneumonia last night.

So far, 440 people have been infected. A total of 26 cases were reported in Guangdong and 14 cases were confirmed in Shenzhen.

China has placed infrared temperature measurements screening in airports, train stations, coach stations and terminals.

The news comes after a French citizen had been reported to have suffered respiratory problems and other virus symptoms after returning to France from a trip to Wuhan, the Chinese city in which coronavirus appears to have originated.

The symptoms had previously been suspected to be coronavirus.

Yet, French director general of health, Jérôme Salomon, confirmed that the patient had received tests for viral infection at the Institut Pasteur health clinic, and all had come back negative.
Mr Salomon told French public service media FranceInfo: “He is doing well, and has returned home.”
 

Mark D

Now running for Emperor.
I haven't finished all 21 pages yet, but here is what China is reporting. Of the 8 people who have died 5 were men and 3 women. One was aged at 55 years but all the rest were 65 years or older and suffered from other various ailments. I'm sure all had weakened immune systems. Hopes this helps.
Their level of response doesn't really match with the "official" number of fatalities. Something is very off in the equation.
 

Old Gray Mare

TB Fanatic
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