Wuhan coronavirus is in the US............

[Hereford2]

To the person who replied to this comment and said that whoever came up with this comment is someone who (Warms Themself) by sticking their Head up their rectum. It doesn't make ANY SENSE... I didn't know it was possible to warm one's self by that method?? :???:

 

[Till-Hill]

Schools in ne Iowa canceled for 4 weeks now. Wow

 

[Stocker Steve]

The "news" is hard to take. Some public officials seem to be in a race to be the most reactive. Meanwhile back at the ranch we deal with daily chores and a epidemic. So what is important in life? Great teaching opportunity.

 

[jltrent]

Schools closed here until the end of the month.. Basically forcing most working parents to put their kids in a day care which thrusts the kids right back into a situation of contamination. An exercise in liability reduction, not infection reduction.

https://www.wdbj7.com/content/news/Governor-Northam-orders-all-Virginia-K-12-schools-closed-for-minimum-of-two-weeks-568777011.html

 

[Stocker Steve]

Schools closed here until the end of the month.. Basically forcing most working parents to put their kids in a day care which thrusts the kids right back into a situation of contamination. An exercise in liability reduction, not infection reduction.

Yes, but would teachers show up?

 

[Buck Randall]

Schools closed here until the end of the month.. Basically forcing most working parents to put their kids in a day care which thrusts the kids right back into a situation of contamination. An exercise in liability reduction, not infection reduction.

https://www.wdbj7.com/content/news/Governor-Northam-orders-all-Virginia-K-12-schools-closed-for-minimum-of-two-weeks-568777011.html

We learned from 1918 that shuttering the schools is one of the most critical steps in slowing a pandemic. Most places of employment will probably be sending nonessential employees home, so that reduces the daycare problem. Even if all of those kids were going to daycare, those facilities are usually smaller and more isolated than schools, so it's at least a small improvement.

 

[Buck Randall]

The "news" is hard to take. Some public officials seem to be in a race to be the most reactive. Meanwhile back at the ranch we deal with daily chores and a epidemic. So what is important in life? Great teaching opportunity.

We have very good evidence from other countries that being highly reactive is important. If you wait until it looks bad in your area, it's far too late to act. I can't think of anything more important than trying to preserve the lives of vulnerable people in your community.

 

[ga.prime]

Schools closed here until the end of the month.. Basically forcing most working parents to put their kids in a day care which thrusts the kids right back into a situation of contamination. An exercise in liability reduction, not infection reduction.

https://www.wdbj7.com/content/news/Governor-Northam-orders-all-Virginia-K-12-schools-closed-for-minimum-of-two-weeks-568777011.html

Day care closed here.

 

[Caustic Burno]

Schools closed here until the end of the month.. Basically forcing most working parents to put their kids in a day care which thrusts the kids right back into a situation of contamination. An exercise in liability reduction, not infection reduction.

Yes, but would teachers show up?

Good point. Probably not.
It's going to be interesting to how the media spins this .
If this was truly about containment and loss of life they would have lost their minds over the 2017/18 flu season.
That year over 60k Americans died from it, my sister being one. Wasn't even a blip in the news cycle.
They are spreading fear just like some nut in Ohio was reporting 150k cases of corona, that quickly and quietly got walked back to 14. Question is how are we labeling a pandemic by the spread of the virus? The death toll? The news rating cycle? The country went on lock down in the Spanish influenza pandemic that took nearly 50 million out world wide and a million here.

"With every disease, there is a certain number of people that scientists and doctors except to get sick at a specific period of time. When the actual number of people who catch the disease suddenly becomes a lot larger than it was expected, this is an epidemic. However, when the disease spreads across the whole country, continent or world and takes away millions of lives, the term "epidemic" is too light to describe what is happening. Thus, an epidemic becomes a pandemic."

 

[Stocker Steve]

The news said now that everyone has a TP pile, we should be buying oat milk for the extended shelf life.

Still have not figured out the bottled water thing, but stocking some medicinal wine or brandy seems reasonable.

 

[herofan]

To the person who replied to this comment and said that whoever came up with this comment is someone who (Warms Themself) by sticking their Head up their rectum. It doesn't make ANY SENSE... I didn't know it was possible to warm one's self by that method?? :???:

Wow! Neither did I. That's a new one on me. That comment has to be from someone with experience, because that particular act had never crossed my mind. That must be a last resort for warmth.

 

[hurleyjd]

The news said now that everyone has a TP pile, we should be buying oat milk for the extended shelf life.

Still have not figured out the bottled water thing, but stocking some medicinal wine or brandy seems reasonable.

Most tap water in America is safe. If you are afraid then you could boil a supply. Most people cannot remember how pitiful and nasty the rural folks had for water before rural water systems funded by our socialist government created funds for them.

 

[callmefence]

The news said now that everyone has a TP pile, we should be buying oat milk for the extended shelf life.

Still have not figured out the bottled water thing, but stocking some medicinal wine or brandy seems reasonable.

Most tap water in America is safe. If you are afraid then you could boil a supply. Most people cannot remember how pitiful and nasty the rural folks had for water before rural water systems funded by our socialist government created funds for them.

Most bottled water is tap water.

 

[Caustic Burno]

Shutdown the media for 30 days and most of the worlds problems will disappear.

 

[Ky hills]

Schools closed here until the end of the month.. Basically forcing most working parents to put their kids in a day care which thrusts the kids right back into a situation of contamination. An exercise in liability reduction, not infection reduction.

https://www.wdbj7.com/content/news/Governor-Northam-orders-all-Virginia-K-12-schools-closed-for-minimum-of-two-weeks-568777011.html

We learned from 1918 that shuttering the schools is one of the most critical steps in slowing a pandemic. Most places of employment will probably be sending nonessential employees home, so that reduces the daycare problem. Even if all of those kids were going to daycare, those facilities are usually smaller and more isolated than schools, so it's at least a small improvement.

My wife works at a daycare, and is about ready to quit. The schools are all closed here and the Governor has said for daycares to be ready to close within 72 hours of a recommendation. There has been a confirmed case here in the county and several in some surrounding counties. We feel that daycares should close too because there is no way to really protect from spreading the virus when working with those age children. It is dangerous for them as well as the workers. When the flu was rampant here that daycare was not abiding by the protocol to send children with fevers home and if they did they allowed them back the next day so obviously it spread around. They the daycare director is taking a very dismissive view of the dangers of this virus so we are concerned about the well being of everyone involved. Being paid beans is not worth the risk for the employees and parents should not want the possibility of their children coming into contact with someone infected.

 

[ga.prime]

To the person who replied to this comment and said that whoever came up with this comment is someone who (Warms Themself) by sticking their Head up their rectum. It doesn't make ANY SENSE... I didn't know it was possible to warm one's self by that method?? :???:

The original comment is what makes no sense - it's unrelated irrelevant statistics and then gives the advice to wash your hands and everything will be good. Washing your hands is not all your have to do, you also have to not breathe anytime your around other people.

 

[jltrent]

This virus is starting to sound pretty scary.

 

[Hereford2]

Haha I was saying that as a joke to put a little humor into the situation lol

 

[jltrent]

Haha I was saying that as a joke to put a little humor into the situation lol

Right now the way everything is looking a little humor might help..

 

[1982vett]

This virus is starting to sound pretty scary.

Naw...the hysteria about this virus is pretty scary. :?