WHO advice and updates on Coronavirus website

Thank you for the info Catlady. My friend sent me this update from Market Watch warning Americans to prepare for disruption of our daily lives. 80,238 cases globally and 2,700 deaths. If you haven't seen it, watch Containment, an alleged fictional account of a deadly virus and how the quarantine is handled. The series came out a couple of years ago, lasted a season and is now on Netflix.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/c...20-guidance-over-virus-uncertainty-2020-02-25
 

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Common sense versus panic mode. Tonight on the local news in Houston the China town area of our city is suffering by a loss of customers between 50 and 80%. This when there is not a single case of the virus here to date. The head of the CDC came out today and said the virus is coming to America and "it is going to be bad". Viral masks are sold out here and at a lot of on line sites. The price of them is skyrocketing. I bought mine a week ago. So what will happen when it does hit here? Knowing what I have seen during hurricanes when all the grocery shelves are empty and gas lines are miles long greed is a beast and it's every man for himself". I don't want to scare you but if you are not scared, why not? I am stocking up on food and cash money. If it is not necessary then I simply put it back in the bank and eventually eat the food, no loss. Between a sinking stock market and a runaway disease it is time to react. Think this is foolish? Fine but don't knock on my door because I loaded up on ammo today a well. I hope more than anyone I am wrong.
 
Great thinking @fmdog44 ! Like you said, if nothing comes to pass, no harm done, you can always use the food and the cash, it won't go to waste. NOT foolish at all, being prepared is half the battle of survival. I need to put more cash into my little stash, I don't like can food, but should probably stash some water and cat food and toilet paper. I'm sure they're not telling us half of the casualties.
 
I emailed the CDC but, they don't know enough about it yet. One other website said it can live up to 9 days on a surface and that if you're quarantined it could be for 24 days. So, if we don't have groceries stocked up are we supposed to starve during quarantine? Or do you think supermarkets would work with someone on making sure they get what they need and letting them pay later?
 
In the 1950's, there was a quarantine for polio. An apartment on our floor had a sign up from the Health Department. I remember the Health Department leaving groceries outside their door. The quarantine sign did not say polio, I found this out years later. All the neighbors also made sure they left stuff outside their door. Just reminiscing. Haven't thought of that in a long while.
 
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I emailed the CDC but, they don't know enough about it yet. One other website said it can live up to 9 days on a surface and that if you're quarantined it could be for 24 days. So, if we don't have groceries stocked up are we supposed to starve during quarantine? Or do you think supermarkets would work with someone on making sure they get what they need and letting them pay later?
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On TV a few days back they were saying that bridal shops are running out of wedding dresses because most of them are made in China and they're not shipping/making them because the virus stays on the fabrics for a while and the workers are not working on them. We're just in the beginning of it all, everything economic will be felt later on during the year. I feel sorry for all the small businesses out there losing their income and perhaps their companies. And everybody else being impacted by the virus and the quarantines.
 
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On TV a few days back they were saying that bridal shops are running out of wedding dresses because most of them are made in China and they're not shipping/making them because the virus stays on the fabrics for a while and the workers are not working on them. We're just in the beginning of it all, everything economic will be felt later on during the year. I feel sorry for all the small businesses out there losing their income and perhaps their companies. And everybody else being impacted by the virus and the quarantines.
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Well, I don't mean this to sound cold or hateful, but America never should've turned to other countries for everything we buy. They should've found a way to keep all that commerce right here in the USA. Then they wouldn't be dealing with this at such a catastrophic level.
 
fmdog44 said:
Common sense versus panic mode. Tonight on the local news in Houston the China town area of our city is suffering by a loss of customers between 50 and 80%. This when there is not a single case of the virus here to date. The head of the CDC came out today and said the virus is coming to America and "it is going to be bad". Viral masks are sold out here and at a lot of on line sites. The price of them is skyrocketing. I bought mine a week ago. So what will happen when it does hit here? Knowing what I have seen during hurricanes when all the grocery shelves are empty and gas lines are miles long greed is a beast and it's every man for himself". I don't want to scare you but if you are not scared, why not? I am stocking up on food and cash money. If it is not necessary then I simply put it back in the bank and eventually eat the food, no loss. Between a sinking stock market and a runaway disease it is time to react. Think this is foolish? Fine but don't knock on my door because I loaded up on ammo today a well. I hope more than anyone I am wrong.
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frmdog...I was thinking the same as your reply in bold text. People better start preparing because the warning has already been issued...our normal lives are about to be disrupted. I already have medical masks (bought in bulk from Amazon) because I use aerosol sprays for various reasons and I know I shouldn't be inhaling them. A good friend of mine said she saw two of her neighbors going into their homes with masks on. I told her that will soon be the norm.
 
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Lots of people are self quarantining not only because they feel they may have been close to someone with the virus, but for example those who have sick family members at home...

We have a family friend who lives in Italy, and he lives in an area where there's a large Chinese and korean population too . He is a self employed contractor, with 2 small children which means he works in other peoples' homes at all times... .

His young wife is just recovering from breast cancer, and she's still very , poorly.. so he cannot take any chance of passing and kind of virus onto her directly or through the children.. so he's not only following all the obvious directives while out working , he has stocked up with groceries and medications, so no outsider has to come to their home ( aside from medical staff)... for example to deliver groceries, and also if he were to feel poorly, or any of the children, they can self quarantine, without feeling the need to go out shopping.

This will be the same all around the world where the Coronavirus is prvelent I suspsect, where people have those who are ill , weak , elderly or the very young... stock up with essentials in the event that they cannot leave the home for a period of weeks..
 
MarciKS said:
Well, I don't mean this to sound cold or hateful, but America never should've turned to other countries for everything we buy. They should've found a way to keep all that commerce right here in the USA. Then they wouldn't be dealing with this at such a catastrophic level.
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I fully agree with you. BUT, are we willing to pay 2-3 times the current cost of products, since American labor is much higher than Asian labor? We can't have both high wages and cheap merchandise, it makes no economic sense.
 
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I emailed the CDC but, they don't know enough about it yet. One other website said it can live up to 9 days on a surface and that if you're quarantined it could be for 24 days. So, if we don't have groceries stocked up are we supposed to starve during quarantine? Or do you think supermarkets would work with someone on making sure they get what they need and letting them pay later?
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@MarciKS, if you don't already have a couple of weeks worth of groceries in your home, get started on it ASAP, and not just because of this particular threat. Everyone should have a sufficient water and food stash to get through an emergency.

5 lbs of brown rice, a few packages of pasta, some canned fruit/veggies, dried or canned beans, a few cans of tuna, a bag of raisins, some crackers, cereal, oatmeal, etc., don't add up to a lot of money from inexpensive grocers or dollar stores.

If you don't have fresh water stashed, start buying gallon containers (or reuse clean food containers and juice bottles), to accumulate least several day's worth of drinking water on hand.

Will supermarkets give food on credit during an emergency? Not likely.

You might have to build your emergency stash slowly, but there's no time like the present to get started on it. Wishing you the best on this.
 
CarolfromTX said:
I think that the media has its own possibly nefarious reasons for hyping this and predicting dire things. It's almost like they're hoping for a pandemic. Remember the ebola scare? I think the media wants to foment panic and just in general stir things up. Try to stay calm.
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Yeah...okay Carol. You keep thinking that way!
 
CarolfromTX said:
I think that the media has its own possibly nefarious reasons for hyping this and predicting dire things. It's almost like they're hoping for a pandemic. Remember the ebola scare? I think the media wants to foment panic and just in general stir things up. Try to stay calm.
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Ebola continues to be a problem in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We remain one super-spreader incident away from an Ebola pandemic. In this day and age of global travel, all are wise to prepare, remain informed, and take nothing for granted.

Our safety is largely by the grace of extraordinarily smart, brave and dedicated doctors, scientists and epidemiologist whose life work is to keep a lid on these viruses. Bless them, every one.
 
I have my theories about the Coronavrius which I will keep to myself. As far as it reaching the US, my thought... I am not going the extra mile for anything.. when its my time, its my time. I refuse to live my life in fear of the unknown. I felt the same way when people were preparing for year 2000. Whatever will be, will be.
 
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I have a friend who lives in Cali. I was surprised when she was telling me what a huge homeless problem they have in Los Angeles.
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Los Angeles and the entire west coast has a big problem with homelessness. It's a perfect storm of terrible situations coming together.
  • High rents
  • Untreated addictions and/or mental illness
  • Young people who had little traction in life to start with, then went into the military for four years in hopes of figuring it out. They emerge a few later with zero marketable skills or direction, but the sad capper of PTSD added to their list of woes.
  • Federal court decisions that tie the hands of police and politicians every step of the way
Add relatively mild weather that's survivable in tents year-round, enough money to live (welfare, food stamps, recyclables, theft, whatever), plus a somewhat tolerant population, and you've got a disaster.

It's terribly sad and enormously frustrating.
 


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