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Filthy

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i stopped by the local Home Improvement store last night and burned off a gift card on bleach, plastic, N95 masks, gorilla tape, spray bottles...and I've been building up my stockpile of soups, water, and books. If the incubation is at 20 days, then I want to be ready for 60 days of 'work from home', without going to the store.
I believe the latest reported was 27 days at this point.
 

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Sitting in a conference on covid-19 updates right now.

Will post some take home messages in a bit.
 

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Covid 19 = disease

Sars cov 2 = virus

Human and animal corona viruses exist and the animal virus jumped

Mers ebola, bird flu, zika, are all other zoonotic viruses that made the jump

Median incubation is 5-6 days (2-14), 27 day data from china not confirmed yet by global standards

China mortality 2.3% but bad data due to undercounting. They count death well but not cases.

SARS was 14% china death rate

Who says number is prob about 1% global

Italy is latest outbreak with major focus due to local spread and not a focus on travelers. Asymptomatic patient spread???

Usa spread not occurring at the moment. They are from travelers but isolated so far
 

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Major variation in presentation.

Children tend to have mild disease.

Over 70 = high mortality
 

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Covid 19 = disease

Sars cov 2 = virus

Human and animal corona viruses exist and the animal virus jumped

Mers ebola, bird flu, zika, are all other zoonotic viruses that made the jump
Bit confusing to me

it was a virus and has jumped to a disease?
 

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Covid 19 = disease

Sars cov 2 = virus

Human and animal corona viruses exist and the animal virus jumped

Mers ebola, bird flu, zika, are all other zoonotic viruses that made the jump

Median incubation is 5-6 days (2-14)

China mortality 2.3% but bad data due to undercounting. They count death well but not cases.

SARS was 14% china death rate

Who says number is prob about 1% global

Italy is latest outbreak with major focus due to local spread and not a focus on travelers. Asymptomatic patient spread???

Usa spread not occurring at the moment. They are from travelers but isolated so far
Nope

Covid 19 = viris

Median incubation = unknown

China mortality rate was reported@ 2.3% 3 weeks ago, all unknown & underreported

SARS data false

WHO is COMPLETELY full of shit

USA has only 3 states that can test, outbreak imminent.

Longest incubation 42 days

Longest "confirmed" incubation 27 days

4 HIV markers = bioengineered
 

Splinty

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Fever cough shortness of breath are screening criteria

Resp droplet transmission. Keep 6 foot distance. Not sure about surface infection risk timeline.

Risks:
Travel to china or covid 19 area in last two weeks
And fever or cough or dyspnea

If so ..isolate. immediate facemask. PPE for every one else.
PPE shortage growing globally due to this.
Notify health department to enact the cdc testing chain. We don't have kits in smaller communities.
Normal viral resp panel will not identify this coronavirus, just usual coronavirus

No consistent antivirals yet.... No vaccine yet...

Soooooo just handwashing and PPE (there's a shortage!). Mask on patient important. Mask on others not that effective and a poor use of resources.
 

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PS: Folks, remember, N95 masks do nothing.
COVID 19 sots at .13 microns, as Splinty @Splinty stated, aerosol & droplets.
N95 are only good(for a few hours) at .30 microns.

***There is a company making reusable masks out of Israel called Argaman Technologies Reinventing Cotton, Empowering Polymers

Their orders are goung out to China, Italy, South Korea, & cruise ship first.

Their technology is crossbinding(twistbinding) varios & cotton fibers)
This mask is a godsend, production can't come fast enough.
Until then, it's the big one filtered($300)if you can find them.
But something is better than nothing.
 

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First Everett case guy(first U.S. case)is O.K. and under monitored house, released 2 days ago after 40+ days in infectious disease ward.
 

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sparkuri @sparkuri link to "the big one"(300$)?

Even if I don't need it for viruses/disease, I can use it when I go into the crawl space to work on the house.
 
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sparkuri

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sparkuri @sparkuri link to "the big one"(300$)?

Even if I don't need it for viruses/disease, I can use it when I go into the crawl space to work on the house.
I think I put it on one of the other pages, may be page 7, 8 or 9?
Remember to get the MIRI filter, before it's gone. Last week it was going for 40 bucks, this week it's probably 90 If it's available.
 

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We've had two family meetings last one last night, we've been in self quarantine for 10 days. I have all the water filters and air filters I need, and my stock is up 0.97% on all pharmaceuticals so I'm sitting pretty at the moment.

 

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Q&A on coronaviruses (COVID-19)

What is COVID-19?
COVID-19 is the infectious disease caused by the most recently discovered coronavirus. This new virus and disease were unknown before the outbreak began in Wuhan, China, in December 2019.

New Coronavirus Disease Officially Named COVID-19 By The World Health Organization

Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
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