Thread: Corona Virus

It is a slow day in the small Saskatchewan town of Pumphandle, and streets are deserted. Times are tough, everybody is in debt, and everybody is living on credit.

A tourist visiting the area drives through town, stops at the hotel, and lays a $100 bill on the desk, saying he wants to inspect the rooms upstairs to pick one for the night.

As soon as he walks upstairs, the motel owner grabs the bill and runs next door to pay his debt to the butcher.

The butcher takes the $100 and runs down the street to repay his debt to the pig farmer.

The pig farmer takes the $100 and heads off to pay his bill to his supplier, the Co-op.

The guy at the Co-op takes the $100 and runs to pay his debt to the local prostitute, who has also been facing hard times and has had to offer her "services" on credit.

The hooker rushes to the hotel and pays off her room bill with the hotel owner.

The hotel proprietor then places the $100 back on the counter so the traveler will not suspect anything.

At that moment the traveler comes down the stairs, states that the rooms are not satisfactory, picks up the $100 bill and leaves.

No one produced anything. No one earned anything... However, the whole town is now out of debt and now looks to the future with a lot more optimism.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how a Stimulus package works.

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

On another front, I read a reference in a UK Guardian story to a report that a French person has been found who was diagnosed with C-19 BEFORE China even reported the Wuhan outbreak to the WHO.
Just think about that. That raises interesting questions if true.
Was the virus circulating in France before the outbreak in China?
Is the virus far more widespread than was assumed?
Have there been numerous undiagnosed cases and deaths in various countries, wrongly assumed to just be influenza?
The world could be quite wrong to blame this pandemic on China.

I think I said in one of my posts that I suspected that this virus had been circulating for some time. Apparently the Guandong area had SARS-like illnesses circulating in 2004 and 2005, so it's entirely possible that they arise quite regularly - this one just has the specific features that turned it into a pandemic.

It could've arisen elsewhere - like MERS did - but it's most likely to have started in China. And I doubt that it simply turned up in December.

We were in NYC and Washington (city) in October/November last year and my wife came back with a bad flu that caused pneumonia and a cough and didn't respond to two courses of antibiotics, so it was clearly viral - could've been just a flu .... or maybe not.

Originally Posted by ozscott

I have quite a few here from my 95 D1...they never did last. They will work well, double the breathing tubes...

Cheers

Ps. If I can't part with old dizzy caps, do I have a sickness?

If they could get one for a V8 there would be enough for the whole family.




Optional Extras.


Tubes to suit 1000 Dollars Australian. Each.

Originally Posted by Arapiles

I think I said in one of my posts that I suspected that this virus had been circulating for some time. Apparently the Guandong area had SARS-like illnesses circulating in 2004 and 2005, so it's entirely possible that they arise quite regularly - this one just has the specific features that turned it into a pandemic.

It could've arisen elsewhere - like MERS did - but it's most likely to have started in China. And I doubt that it simply turned up in December.

We were in NYC and Washington (city) in October/November last year and my wife came back with a bad flu that caused pneumonia and a cough and didn't respond to two courses of antibiotics, so it was clearly viral - could've been just a flu .... or maybe not.

This story could also explain why countries which were slow to respond, such as Italy, the UK and the USA, have been hit so hard. Researchers have found a second strain of the virus, which follows the first and is far more virulent. Incidentally, that second strain is now dominant in Australia.

Second coronavirus strain 'more contagious', new research finds
Researchers find new coronavirus strain '''more contagious''', potentially impacting COVID-19 vaccine search - ABC News

Well and good to say Italy was slow at responding but actual fact is they were much quicker than most but unfortunately were one of first and hardest hit so they had much less time to react but when they did, they went all out. Where as UK, US etc. sat and waited to see how Italy panned out and look at their numbers now. Italy and Spain did ok considering they were first hit and had huge numbers and oldest populations. What helps is they are also very healthy. Unlike overweight anglo countries.

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

On another front, I read a reference in a UK Guardian story to a report that a French person has been found who was diagnosed with C-19 BEFORE China even reported the Wuhan outbreak to the WHO.
Just think about that. That raises interesting questions if true.
Was the virus circulating in France before the outbreak in China?
Is the virus far more widespread than was assumed?
Have there been numerous undiagnosed cases and deaths in various countries, wrongly assumed to just be influenza?
The world could be quite wrong to blame this pandemic on China.

I call 100% Bull**** on that theory, and if the WHO eventually gets of its arse & does what it is supposed to, the truth about China, its hiding of the truth, the "banishment/ disappearance" of their scientists who originally blew the whistle, then the truth would be revealed.
Pickles.

Originally Posted by Eevo

the death rate for the US is about half what it is for europe.

Apologies my mistake, mis ed saying "New Yorkers" tumbling off their perches. (City)

We won't go 'there' - are all the toe-tags and paperwork telling the Truth ? - without testing the dearly departed ?

Originally Posted by Pickles2

I call 100% Bull**** on that theory, and if the WHO eventually gets of its arse & does what it is supposed to, the truth about China, its hiding of the truth, the "banishment/ disappearance" of their scientists who originally blew the whistle, then the truth would be revealed.
Pickles.

... IF ...

- but only after they clear it with their single biggest financier....