International Coronavirus Breaking News, v6

[ShadowRun]

I would imagine intravenous drug use and promiscuous anal/unprotected sex contributed to the Indiana AIDS outbreak.

No way it was Pence running around injecting gay's at his gay concentration camps that everyone was scared of!

 

[Gomi1977]

First case has been reported in The Netherlands, a guy who recently returned from Lombary, Italy.

https://frontpage.fok.nl/nieuws/830...rste-coronavirus-besmetting-in-nederland.html

 

[Arkain2K]

You guys know what the 3 modern signs of the apocalypse are?

1) Hard-line Communists in The People's Republic of China actually cancelling their all-important annual People's Congress.

2) Hard-line Muslims in The Islamic Republic of Iran actually cancelling their all-important Islamic Friday Prayer.

3) Hard-line Republicans and Democrats in The United States of America actually cancelling their all-important petty partisanship and be United as Americans in combating an epidemic.

So far, 2 out of 3 seals has been broken, but the last line of defense against the end of the world remains strong, in DC as well as in the TDS-fueled derailments plaguing our Breaking News thread in the last 24 hours.

 

[Joe]

 

[WhiteMousse]

Coronavirus beard warning issued by US experts

https://www.9news.com.au/national/c...-cdc-usa/f46efe8a-be8d-47ba-b9fc-10de73507a2c

Toothbrush it is then

 

[Rob Battisti]

1190 point drop on the Dow.

 

[Arkain2K]

Looks like Costa Mesa is in the clear...for now.​

No plans to move Travis Air Force Base virus evacuees to Southern California, CDC says
By Darrell Smith | February 26, 2020

Federal health officials on Tuesday said they had no plans to move quarantined cruise ship passengers from Travis Air Force Base to Orange County.

Talks to open Fairview Developmental Center, a now-shuttered residential and care facility in Costa Mesa, were only “preparatory,” said Scott Pauley, a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention spokesman.

A federal judge this week extended an earlier temporary restraining order filed by the city of Costa Mesa to block the possible transfer of dozens of people housed at Travis to the city less than an hour south of Los Angeles.

Costa Mesa city leaders asked for the emergency order last week on word that the federal government was planning to bus as many as 50 people – many former passengers of the Japan-docked Diamond Princess – from Travis, as early as last weekend.

But Pauley on Tuesday said people housed at Travis who haven’t been in close contact with those infected with COVID-19 will remain at the base for the remainder of their quarantine. For many, the 14-day period ends March 2, he said.

“There is no need for them to move” from the base, Pauley said.

Meantime, three passengers who were taken to Solano County hospitals Sunday remain hospitalized in isolation where they are being monitored by health workers. Pauley would not disclose the patients’ conditions or at which hospitals they were being housed Tuesday.

Another passenger aboard the Diamond Princess who was taken from Travis to a hospital in neighboring Napa County remains in isolation there, Pauley said.

U.S. District Court Judge Josephine Staton signed the original order Feb. 21 and on Monday extended the order for one week after Costa Mesa city officials argued they still hadn’t received information from the government that they say is critical to helping keep residents safe.

https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/article240663166.html

 

[ElKarlo]

There's a lot of helicopter parents in Japan that are going to have mental breakdowns at the thought of their kids not having to do 4-5 hours of homework per night for a whole month.

True. But also for many parents school is daycare. Basically mom's are going to have to take off work for s month to watch their kids.
Plus Japan is boring. There isn't much to do for kids. Houses are small so you can't do much in them play wise.

 

[Mark Hunts FIST]

Gilead Sciences is working on coronavirus drug trials...fingers crossed.

Thank God for this private US company.
I wonder if they or "any other civilized country with free healthcare" will be the one to "save" us.

 

[Arashikage4Life]

Gilead Sciences is working on coronavirus drug trials...fingers crossed.

Thank God for this private US company.
I wonder if they or "any other civilized country with free healthcare" will be the one to "save" us.

Australia is working on one too smart ass. You think Gilead are the only people in the world working on this?

 

[Gomi1977]

Australia is working on one too smart ass. You think Gilead are the only people in the world working on this?

They're using a medicin they developed years ago, to work against ebola and Marburg (clinical trails said it was less effective than exisiting treatments), but they found out it does have some benificial qualities against, amongst other, coronaviruses. So, basically, a failed product might get a second chance. Murica, fuck yeah!

 

[Videer]

Oh my, feel sorry for this fella.

 

[PolishHeadlock2]

1190 point drop on the Dow.

Over 3000 points so far this week

Makes you wonder if it is all coronavirus or if that just sparked a correction on a hot market

 

[Wadtucket]

Gilead Sciences is working on coronavirus drug trials...fingers crossed.

Thank God for this private US company.
I wonder if they or "any other civilized country with free healthcare" will be the one to "save" us.

I spoke to an exec at Gilead infectious diseases today, and he seemed very optimistic regarding their results with remdesivir. Hopefully they will be allowed to expand the compassionate usage in the US shortly.

 

[Strychnine]

Imagine shaving your beard because of this

You get a better fit with your mask. That's why (if you have a shaving waiver) in the military you don't see guys with long beards unless they're going on spec-ops.

You can always grow back your beard.

 

[zebby23]

Goldman Sachs analyst is saying the corona virus could sent the Dow price way down which could be a death sentence for Trumps re-election bid

 

[Arashikage4Life]

My brother already told me he would rather die than shave

 

[Joe]

Oh my, feel sorry for this fella.

That looks like a scene they do on a movie for a news story

 

[Corwinn]

Dammit, this virus is going too far.

I better not be put to the test to shave my Van Dyke (first time i have seen it also referred to as a 'Circle Beard") in a test of Vanity versus Safety.

Canada better keep this thing under control.

Canada? Under control?

Spoiler - we won't.

 

[PolishHeadlock2]

My brother already told me he would rather die than shave

Religious reasons or is he that hipster?