Cideous Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 Not looking good folks. Â That thing is spreading like Influenza with a 10% mortality rate. Â How long until one walks into your Urgent Care or ER? Â Sooooo not to stoke fear or anything, but should I be stocking up on food and ammo or what? Â Â Â Â 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GetMeOuttaThisMess Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 (edited) I've made the switch to Dos Equis or Tecate. Â I've got the ammo so no need there. Â Food? Â As long as it isn't transferable with pizza, burgers, Mexican food (aside from Coronas, which BTW do lemon/lime slices help?) I'm ok since I hide in the house all the time now anyway. Â I can live off PB&J. I'll wait and see how it compares to swine flu, bird flu, etc. Edited January 22, 2020 by GetMeOuttaThisMess 2 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thinkertdm Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 I'm ordering zpacks for myself.  Online from china. Zpacks improve everything. And if it doesn't help in the first go round, try it again. Maybe I'll just use both barrels and order Levaquin too. If it comes in a plain box marked "zee-pac" and levelkwin", you know it's legit. 5 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reality Check 2 Posted January 23, 2020 Share Posted January 23, 2020 I am in Washington state - Ground Zero for US first case - yay me................................... not 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GetMeOuttaThisMess Posted January 23, 2020 Share Posted January 23, 2020 One of my old ED’s was the Ebola conundrum location. Don’t know who the initial provider was that discharged but I had worked with the doc that got it the second time around with the more classic presentation. While i joked about it earlier, it does have the potential to be a big deal like the other examples that I had mentioned.Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GMM2019 Posted January 23, 2020 Share Posted January 23, 2020 What goes well with the coronavirus?        Lyme disease  (stolen joke - can't take credit!) 5 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GetMeOuttaThisMess Posted January 23, 2020 Share Posted January 23, 2020 Guacamole, HOT salsa, and chips? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator rev ronin Posted January 23, 2020 Administrator Share Posted January 23, 2020 3 hours ago, Reality Check 2 said: I am in Washington state - Ground Zero for US first case - yay me................................... not Hey at least YOU are on the other side of the mountains--I'm just down I-5 a ways. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ak004 Posted January 23, 2020 Share Posted January 23, 2020 FM in Tacoma...just waiting for the first patient to call thinking they’ve caught it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator LT_Oneal_PAC Posted January 23, 2020 Moderator Share Posted January 23, 2020 Last I saw 440 infectEd and 9 dead for 0.02%, but honestly too small population to calculate. Can someone point me to a legit source for mortality? I’ve seen anything up to 50% mortality claims. honestly this feels like chikungunya, Zika, and the host of others. Not saying we don’t perform strong preventative measures, and I already stock food, but I’m not worried about this one. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sas5814 Posted January 23, 2020 Share Posted January 23, 2020 I'm stocking up on ammo. I can get all the food I want. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GetMeOuttaThisMess Posted January 23, 2020 Share Posted January 23, 2020 Suspected case here in Texas now with an A&M student (Brazos county). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cideous Posted January 24, 2020 Author Share Posted January 24, 2020 (edited) 16 hours ago, GetMeOuttaThisMess said: Suspected case here in Texas now with an A&M student (Brazos county). Wonderful. Â Just down the road from us. Â Freaking Aggies. Â Edited January 24, 2020 by Cideous Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShakaHoo Posted January 24, 2020 Share Posted January 24, 2020 Breaking News:Â Second confirmed case of WUHAN hits Chicago! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ohiovolffemtp Posted January 24, 2020 Share Posted January 24, 2020 From where I work: It's 106 miles to Chicago. We've got a full tank of gas, a half pack of cigarettes, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cideous Posted January 24, 2020 Author Share Posted January 24, 2020 Off to Walmart. Â Gonna beat the rush for .223 cal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AbeTheBabe Posted January 24, 2020 Share Posted January 24, 2020 My friend works in an ED in Florida, just got a patient with fever and recent travel to Asia. Stay tuned! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cideous Posted January 24, 2020 Author Share Posted January 24, 2020 Ok...I'm gonna ask. Â What is the test to determine this strain of Coronavirus? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator rev ronin Posted January 24, 2020 Administrator Share Posted January 24, 2020 8 minutes ago, Cideous said: Ok...I'm gonna ask. Â What is the test to determine this strain of Coronavirus? Dunno, but when I checked a day or two ago it was FedEx to Atlanta for testing... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cideous Posted January 25, 2020 Author Share Posted January 25, 2020 1 hour ago, rev ronin said: Dunno, but when I checked a day or two ago it was FedEx to Atlanta for testing... Oh gawd. Â And in the meantime...go home and don't breath on anyone? Â Nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GetMeOuttaThisMess Posted January 25, 2020 Share Posted January 25, 2020 Now a suspicious case at Baylor University. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator rev ronin Posted January 25, 2020 Administrator Share Posted January 25, 2020 I really am more worried about intra-Asian spread, especially in light of the Lunar/Chinese New Year. What a terrible, terrible occasion on which to need a quarantine. From China, I'm worried it will jump elsewhere rather than straight to the U.S.--if it spreads to South Asia or Africa, for instance, good luck getting it under control. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator rev ronin Posted January 25, 2020 Administrator Share Posted January 25, 2020 https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1220919589623803905.html https://www.thelancet.com/.../PIIS0140-6736(20.../fulltext https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.23.20018549v1.full.pdf+html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator rev ronin Posted January 25, 2020 Administrator Share Posted January 25, 2020 Today's updates. Read the above ones first. https://www.jpost.com/International/China-virus-25-dead-as-infection-spreads-615206 https://apnews.com/0f6f40498c107c61dc8405f6306c24bd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GetMeOuttaThisMess Posted January 25, 2020 Share Posted January 25, 2020 I want to see them build that hospital in one week that they've been told to complete. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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