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#BREAKING
#Iran confirmed 13 new coronavirus cases, bringing the total in the country to 18, with four of the total having died.
The #coronavirus has spread to several Iranian cities, a health ministry official said

 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 78421632


Since we know it takes 3+ weeks to go from infection to fatality, 4 dead means that there must be several thousand infected already.

Uncontrolled outbreak in Iran. And with the R0 on this bastard, unstoppable.
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Or 4 out of 13 died and death rate is around 25%
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Ken Follett's Journey into the Dark Ages - Black Death

Gives insight into what happened in the past to society when they got met by an incurable plague. All shit hit the fan.

Worth looking at. Follows historical archived texts, but in an easily absorbable storyline narrative. Bookmark it for later viewing.

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US Exposed To Immediate Impact From "Supply-Chain Shock", Deutsche Says

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Even the Russians and some Chinese researchers are admitting it's a bioweapon. It has artificial properties, all of which have been documented in this topic, It's almost irrefutable.

It will take a decade to analyze the biostatistics.

We have scant details on transmission and when a bioweapon is manufactured, do you honestly trust what Chinese epidemiologists are claiming anymore? Frankly they have so much bad data, our American epidemiologists will start from scratch based on new data they can trust.

Every plausible vector of transmission will be analyzed using American data.
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250 Unilever workers in Milan under quarantine
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 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77621519


Unilever website:

"We make some of the best known brands in the world, and those brands are used by 2.5 billion people every day"
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One thing I do agree with you Revbo, is that "WHITES CANNOT DIE FROM CORONAVIRUS" - it's all about genetics
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 73139542


bsflag

The 38 year old on his death bed in italy is white bro
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 74728734


Revbo never said that. Hes been attacked by trolls ever since he started his thread a few days ago.
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Thanks, my friend. Green coming your way.
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Do ya need some green to counter the red communist troll karma?
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The nothing burgers are not long for the gene pool at this point feel real for there children that's for damn sure , sucks to have a tard as a parent 100%
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Racist attacks on Asians spreading faster than coronavirus in US

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Bullshit
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Trump Proposes 16% Cut To CDC As Global Number Of Coronavirus Infections And Deaths Rise

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 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 78421632


Winning!
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 35108492


Why not? They are doing absolutely nothing, other than screwing up test kits 3 or 4 times and trying to squash 1st amendment rights.
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Good morning all...

Good Lord, I took a break for 16 hours and OMFG! I think the time to prepare has passed. I hit the local Sams when it opened at 7am, last top up of basics, flour, sugar, salt, yeast, starch. Last there 3 days ago....

The change...now the first displays as you walk in are Lysol, cleaners,sanitizing wipes, TP, and Kleenex. Northern MI.

The world as we know it is about to change in ways not seen in a century.

Godspeed, brothers and sisters. It’s time to stop listening to others, and focus on your own intuition...do what you’ve got to do, NOW!
You are not your thoughts...
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250 Unilever workers in Milan under quarantine
[link to twitter.com (secure)]
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77621519


Unilever website:

"We make some of the best known brands in the world, and those brands are used by 2.5 billion people every day"
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I'm afraid that we've crossed the rubicon
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Trump Proposes 16% Cut To CDC As Global Number Of Coronavirus Infections And Deaths Rise

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 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 78421632


Make it 100% POShit mother fuckers, Fire them!!!!
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Hey, METELYOUNOW

FUCK YOU AND YOUR NO WHITES CAN DIE FROM THE VIRUS
FUCK YOU AND YOUR NO WHITES CAN DIE FROM THE VIRUS

FUCK YOU AND YOUR NO WHITES CAN DIE FROM THE VIRUS
FUCK YOU AND YOUR NO WHITES CAN DIE FROM THE VIRUS

FUCK YOU AND YOUR NO WHITES CAN DIE FROM THE VIRUS
FUCK YOU AND YOUR NO WHITES CAN DIE FROM THE VIRUS

FUCK YOU AND YOUR NO WHITES CAN DIE FROM THE VIRUS
FUCK YOU AND YOUR NO WHITES CAN DIE FROM THE VIRUS

FUCK YOU AND YOUR NO WHITES CAN DIE FROM THE VIRUS
FUCK YOU AND YOUR NO WHITES CAN DIE FROM THE VIRUS
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77938471


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Racist attacks on Asians spreading faster than coronavirus in US

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The stupidity of that article is just beyond belief.
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Now that we know the virus is here to stay, can we list some positives from it?

- Europe might finally close its borders. Not certain, but definitely more probable than before. Stopping the uncontrolled immigration becomes a possibility

- Schools might shut down so that poor kids won't have to slave away in public schools. Widespread homeschooling becomes a real possibility.

- People might stop thinking about useless crap and material goods and focus on more important, down to earth things

- It might lead to some advances in health-related sciences, China launched some 70 clinical studies already. Just like in WW2 there was rapid technology progress, this is similar to wartime scenario, at least in China now

Just off the top of my head...
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CNBC Indonesia:

[link to www.cnbcindonesia.com (secure)]

Translation:

JAKARTA, CNBC Indonesia- The Taizhou Government in Zhenjiang, China, announced the discovery of a drug to cure corona patients. The drug called Favi-Lavir is claimed to be an anti-virus from Covid-19. And has been approved to be marketed by China's national medical product administration. The favi-lavir drug is produced by the Zhenjiang Hisun Pharmaceutical company.

Check out the complete information in Squawk Box, CNBC Indonesia (Thursday 20/02/2020) below.

Hmmmh....
 Quoting: Madrotter


A Bit QUICK..HMMMM..........
 Quoting: THE AMERICAN INQUISITOR


Trying to find more info about it....

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Guise, there are 11 people who have tested positive for it now at the UNMC In Omaha Nebraska! Time to take your Corn Plants in! redface
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ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS - THIS IS NOT JUST A "FLU"

Possible outcomes in my opinion:

(a) A vaccine will be found and will be forced upon the
public

(b) The virus will become the "norm", like cancer, some people will get it, some will die, some will survive, global population will be reduced slowly over the next 10 years

(c) Impending global economic catastrophe, a global power shift and disaster, civil wars, creation of a new global currency, new unions of countries

(d) Virus will peak by the end of this year or sooner and just die out by itself (highly unlikely)
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One thing I do agree with you Revbo, is that "WHITES CANNOT DIE FROM CORONAVIRUS" - it's all about genetics
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 73139542


Never said that.

Dick.
 Quoting: Revbo™


Some people never learn.

Irish couple on the Princess Cruise are as white as white can be, they got infected and went to hospital.
 Quoting: Nonentity


After running that thread for a few days, you can tell most of the people who are asking the question are well-intentioned and are just trying to fill in the blanks on a legitimate question our media should be asking, but there are a few for whom it's a white supremacy thing or just good old wishful thinking. It was starting to look, to me, like there might be something to it, if not in terms of infections because it was still far too early outside of China to tell, at least in terms of how hard it hits the various ethnicities, but for me, it was just because of how long it seemed to be taking for anyone other-than-Asian to end up in the ICU or dead over it. This Italian dude in the hospital has me leaning hard back to the other side, though. Only 20% of those infected will need hospital care and there simply weren't enough non-Asians infected for those statistics to catch up.
 Quoting: Revbo™


Fully agree with you.
I was one of the ones who after reading lots of medical data, and tryingto fill gaps.

The lack of spread in the us/uk etc was stacking up.
Also the whites had been mild symptons free etc.

It did point that it was purely hitting asians hard.

But lots of new stuff in the last few days have kicked that in to the dust.
Its hitting everyone.

But i also think that the healthly you are the less it will effect you.

I dont think your going to see the same numbers of deaths in the UK/USA ETC maybe 2-5%.

Even that is going to be a blood bath
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I don't buy this flu, looks like a media hoax to me, and the markets are not buying it either, I say relax and chill, this will blow over soon, flu only last during winter, March is closing in
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77621649


If you don't "buy it" then what are you here trying to sell? Or are you working on your "I'm smarter than the rest of you" act?
 Quoting: Larry D. Croc


If it’s the latter, it’s a miserable failure. I count six sentences there, all separated by commas.

To deal with the individual arguments, though, a media hoax of this magnitude is impossible. We’re talking about coordinating massive numbers of outlets and people across the entire world, all of whom must stay on script all the time. You know what they say about a conspiracy. Two people can keep a secret as long as one of them is dead.

As far as markets, China banned shortselling and is propping up their markets with cash from the central bank. Their cities are closed, their industry is closed, and their shipping is at a total standstill.

As far as March, it’s 80 degrees in Singapore. Need I say more?
 Quoting: Revbo™


It's not so difficult to control all media. That's why they were all bought up and put under one umbrella.
Project Mockingbird alone can control the media.
How did they get away with 9 11? By controlling the media.
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Good morning all...

Good Lord, I took a break for 16 hours and OMFG! I think the time to prepare has passed. I hit the local Sams when it opened at 7am, last top up of basics, flour, sugar, salt, yeast, starch. Last there 3 days ago....

The change...now the first displays as you walk in are Lysol, cleaners,sanitizing wipes, TP, and Kleenex. Northern MI.

The world as we know it is about to change in ways not seen in a century.

Godspeed, brothers and sisters. It’s time to stop listening to others, and focus on your own intuition...do what you’ve got to do, NOW!
 Quoting: Dobbstar


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Hey, METELYOUNOW

FUCK YOU AND YOUR NO WHITES CAN DIE FROM THE VIRUS
FUCK YOU AND YOUR NO WHITES CAN DIE FROM THE VIRUS

FUCK YOU AND YOUR NO WHITES CAN DIE FROM THE VIRUS
FUCK YOU AND YOUR NO WHITES CAN DIE FROM THE VIRUS

FUCK YOU AND YOUR NO WHITES CAN DIE FROM THE VIRUS
FUCK YOU AND YOUR NO WHITES CAN DIE FROM THE VIRUS

FUCK YOU AND YOUR NO WHITES CAN DIE FROM THE VIRUS
FUCK YOU AND YOUR NO WHITES CAN DIE FROM THE VIRUS

FUCK YOU AND YOUR NO WHITES CAN DIE FROM THE VIRUS
FUCK YOU AND YOUR NO WHITES CAN DIE FROM THE VIRUS
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77938471


Does anyone else think this myth was actually put out there as another measure to control panic? Seems logical. At least until whites start dying in mass, but I'll bet that little rumor gave them another week or two to set up logistics.
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If there's anything we've learnt over the past month, it's that the people who inhabit Eurasia are fucking liars.

They should never be trusted again.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 78307365


Jesus fucking Christ. I agree. I'm reading all this shit wondering how we'll fare. We could come out on top and smelling like roses if the authorities play their cards right and start banning the fuck out of international travel.

I know what they're like though, all spin and market orientated. It's going to have to get a lot worse before Australia shits the bed and tells everyone to get the fuck out.
 Quoting: Xenojunk


I really believe it's too late to worry about international flights and such. This shit is already everywhere, just waiting, biding it's little virus time before it explodes.

2 weeks tops.
 Quoting: John_the_Baptist_


when it is all over,i do hope the ppl remember how badly our governments lied to us and screwed this up. never let them back in charge.
 Quoting: JAZZz50


clappa
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I am thinking that the manner of infection determines the course of disease.
Let’s assume the 80% of mild disease are airborne transmission. The other 20% of severe/critical cases are from ingestion of the virus into the gut. Rich with blood flow the virus infects lungs, liver, kidney and reproductive organs through the blood stream.

The 38 year old Italian man was infected after having dinner with a carrier.
The CDC has to look at this. Would have different precautions for quarantine of mild cases. [link to www.thelocal.it (secure)]

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NEW CDC TEST KITS TO BE SENT AROUND THE COUNTRY WON’T BE READY UNTIL “MID-MARCH”!!!


The fact that it’s going to take a month for them to re-manufacture totally unacceptable...

“... the CDC initially sent Hawaii’s kits to the wrong state. When they arrived, they was damaged. Another shipment didn’t work.”

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bump
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5a

Man, this BS. Wow.
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If it’s the latter, it’s a miserable failure. I count six sentences there, all separated by commas.

To deal with the individual arguments, though, a media hoax of this magnitude is impossible. We’re talking about coordinating massive numbers of outlets and people across the entire world, all of whom must stay on script all the time. You know what they say about a conspiracy. Two people can keep a secret as long as one of them is dead.

As far as markets, China banned shortselling and is propping up their markets with cash from the central bank. Their cities are closed, their industry is closed, and their shipping is at a total standstill.

As far as March, it’s 80 degrees in Singapore. Need I say more?
 Quoting: Revbo™


One thing I do agree with you Revbo, is that "WHITES CANNOT DIE FROM CORONAVIRUS" - it's all about genetics
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 73139542


Never said that.

Dick.
 Quoting: Revbo™


Some people never learn.

Irish couple on the Princess Cruise are as white as white can be, they got infected and went to hospital.
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Anyword on their condition? Perhaps potatoes and whiskey will cure it.
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Still not killing whitey so still nothing.
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Once it hits enough people it will mutate. Then our white arses are just as fucked as z yellow fella. The real rulers of the universe are bacteria and viruses. We're fighting a battle we've been lucky, lucky to fare well against this far. And only some of us have been lucky. Millions maybe billions have not been. Many of those dead have been better men than I or even you, ye ol' arrogant one.

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Flu virus could evolve resistance to pandemic drug

25 October 2018


The influenza virus can evolve resistance to an anti-flu drug currently in development for use in pandemics, a study has found.

Scientists at Imperial College London, in collaboration with Public Health England, have discovered that two genetic mutations would be needed for the virus to develop resistance to favipiravir, an experimental antiviral developed in Japan.

...

When influenza was grown in the presence of favipiravir in cell cultures, the virus was able to evolve, uncovering a combination of two key mutations that enabled it to become resistant to the antiviral.

The first of the mutations caused a change in the RNA polymerase enzyme itself, blocking the drug's effect, but it came at a cost for the virus and affected its ability to reproduce. However, this loss of fitness was countered by the second mutation, which restored the virus's ability to thrive and spread.

According to the researchers, it is unclear whether this combination of mutations could occur readily in viruses in the wild, but their findings are the first to show a clear genetic mechanism by which resistance to the drug could potentially come about in influenza strains around the world.

--snip
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So all we need is a smart vaccine that will mutate synchronously with the virus.

Easy Peasy!
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2 new cases in Australia: two Queenslanders women, aged 54 and 55, who had been evacuated from the Diamond Princess cruise ship.
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In Italy students are suddenly dying for no reason...

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