I still think good old influenza a and b will be far more devastating in the end.
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LOLOL unfortunately my husband is a dang news junky
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n95 or better would work.
personally I prefer the full face masks like in the star wars movies but now we’re just talking about style 
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The Chinese are going totally crazy. There are reports that they’ve been tossing dogs and cats out of tower blocks for fear of infection. 
Some take other measures 
I recommend eating 5 cloves of raw garlic everyday.
It won’t help against the virus but it will keep everybody at a safe distance.
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No kidding! 
There is a fellow at the theatre that eats massive amounts of garlic when he has an inkling he’s getting sick! Holy Malodorous Swamp Monster Batman! 
…and the flatulence, which goes hand in butt-cheek with the man!!! OMG! 
It’s like a rotten garlic baloney windmill slapping wet tile! 
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At least he’s covered in both directions 
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I’m not downplaying anything, but it just seems like the worldwide panic is unfounded.
So far… 85,000 cases of Coronavirus, with 2,900 deaths. Worldwide.
So far… 250,000 hospitalized, 14,000 dead -in the US alone- from ‘regular’ influenza. 26,000,000 cases worldwide this flu season.
And, like influenza, most of the people that get it will recover fully. I don’t know why the world is freaking out, honestly. I wish I understood.
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It’s probably good for the economy. Masks are sold out, some people are hoarding food and they probably come up with some vaccination that will make somebody a lot of money.
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What it is doing is exposing a ton of sins.
All of the manufacturing we handed over to China is not threatening us with shortages of everything.
Our gooberment is using this as political fodder rather than working together, creating more distrust for the gooberment and fueling panic.
No one has put this into any perspective. The outbreak currently has about a 2% mortality rate. What does that compare to? Just sighting total cases of other maladies does not provide perspective. If this virus proliferates it seems it could become as infectious as other viruses, but what does that mean?
We can’t trust other gooberments to report accurately. This only proves all gooberments can’t be trusted.
We know nothing, thanks to gooberment.
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I had to go back to school today doing lunchbreak after a two week holiday.
Instructions were no handshaking and the kids have to wash their hands after they play outside.
Even a couple of 9 year olds in my class were shouting that more people die of normal influenza 
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If only the governments had the mentality of a 9 year old. One can dream.
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Here’s an interesting take… 
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Just How Deadly Is COVID-19?
According to Chinese authorities, here are the number of COVID-19 cases in the city of Wuhan, where the outbreak started:
If these numbers are to be believed, the number of new cases is starting to level out and looks unlikely to ever pass 55,000. That’s about 0.5 percent of Wuhan’s population of 11 million.
Now, as near as I can tell, the virus spreads far more widely in urban areas than in rural areas. If COVID-19 were to spread in American cities the same way it did in Wuhan, that would suggest maybe 1.5 million infections and 70,000 deaths, mostly concentrated among those over 60. But that’s almost certainly way too high. Wuhan is something of a worst-case scenario, after all: it was the first place hit; nobody knew what to do at first; and it quickly grew beyond the ability of the Chinese medical system to handle. Even in China, nearly all the victims have been in Wuhan, and it seems unlikely that any other city will ever reach the infection rate they’ve suffered.
Given all this, it seems very unlikely that American infections will ever surpass 1 million or that deaths will surpass 40,000—at most. This compares to the estimated 34,000 deaths from flu last year and 61,000 the year before. In other words, every time you go out shopping you’re already taking a bigger risk of dying from the flu than you’ll ever have from COVID-19.
So here’s my question: I understand that no professional would ever whomp up a prediction like this and make it public. It’s the flimsiest kind of horseback guess and shouldn’t be taken seriously by anyone. What’s more, COVID-19 is still new: we don’t have good data about the infection rate and it’s not clear how reliable the Chinese data is. Still, surely epidemiologists have estimates that they’ve passed around privately. Are they anywhere near mine? Like, even within an order of magnitude? I realize that keeping people scared is a good way of ensuring behavior that will keep infections down, but is that the only reason? Or are professionals genuinely more scared than I am?
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If there was a level of trust with the governments, maybe we could then speculate that things are worse than the health officials are saying. But after centuries of being lied to and intentionally misled, I think we’re all rightly skeptical. The tail has wagged the dog so many times that it fell off.
According to that chart, there was about a 10 day window there early on where cases soared unchecked, but it’s seemingly leveled off already there, at the epicenter. Everything I see just tells me this is Chicken Little playing his hand. Time will tell, I suppose.
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The reason for all the panic IMHO is because there’s still no cure for this covid 19. And it freaks people out because it’s something we couldnt control.
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Replace covid 19 with influenza and it’s the same statement though.
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That is true…
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I heard if you breathed it in you would start shaking, your head would spin in circles and your balls would fall off!! Oh wait… That was vaping.
I get so confused.
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Yea!!! We’ve just digressed to political bashing. Bravo!!!
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Sorry!.. you’re correct! 
It just makes me furious 
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