BBC: China pneumonia outbreak: COVID-19 Global Pandemic

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26 minutes ago, TheGreatBuzz said:

 

Is that part about staying at a Trump hotel true?  Sad that I have to even ask that but I could really see that happening.

Nah, that was a joke.  

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[EmirOfShmo]

18 hours ago, Mooka said:

Had to buy this ****ing cosmetic brand hand sanitizer that was mad expensive because everything else is 100% sold out. 

 

Here's a hack for homemade sanitizer: 

 

Stir two parts 91% isoprophyl alcohol with one part aloe vera gel until blended. 

Edited March 5, 2020 by EmirOfShmo

[Llevron]

21 minutes ago, visionary said:

<Lindsay "Science" Graham">

 

My immediate response would have been "Liiiiiiike climate change?" 

And then as hes walking away "Or Evolution!?" 

[Riggo-toni]

Science? We don't need no stinking science.

[Sacks 'n' Stuff]

1 hour ago, TheGreatBuzz said:

Is that part about staying at a Trump hotel true?  Sad that I have to even ask that but I could really see that happening.

There was a time where I would’ve made fun of your sarcasm meter being broken for this but yeah… All bets are off nowadays.

Edited March 5, 2020 by Sacks 'n' Stuff

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[China]

Coronavirus: US banks ready disaster plans: sources

 

New York (AFP) - Large US banks have begun testing crisis measures in case of a broader coronavirus outbreak that prevents staff from going to work, banking sources told AFP.

 

JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and Citigroup have asked hundreds of workers to work from home as part of emergency preparedness.

 

"We are asking some employees to work from home over the next two weeks just so we can test systems and remote access," said one person familiar with the process, characterizing the step as "typical contingency stuff."

 

JPMorgan has undertaken tests at a disaster recovery site in London and two in the United States, in Brooklyn and the state of New Jersey, a source told AFP.

 

Citigroup has undertaken a similar process in London and New Jersey, while Goldman Sachs has done tests at a site in London.

 

"We have recovery sites and we continually test them," said a Goldman Sachs spokeswoman. "As you can imagine, we are enhancing our testing in view of the coronavirus."

 

Click on the link for the full article

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[Hooper]

41 deaths in Italy?

 

Yikes.

 

I heard the streets of Rome are literally empty.

 

 

[CousinsCowgirl84]

3 hours ago, EmirOfShmo said:

 

Here's a hack for homemade sanitizer: 

 

Stir two parts 91% isoprophyl alcohol with one part aloe vera gel until blended. 

vodka and glycol works too

 

 

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[SoCalSkins]

41 minutes ago, CousinsCowgirl84 said:

vodka and glycol works too

 

 

[Mr. Sinister]

I wouldnt say a damn thing. Let the culling commense

[China]

As the coronavirus spreads, one study predicts that even the best-case scenario is 15 million dead and a $2.4 trillion hit to global GDP

 

As coronavirus cases continue to rise around the world, a group of Australian experts predict that the economic impact of the disease in the best-case scenario may total $2.4 trillion in lost global gross domestic product.

 

The coronavirus outbreak that originated in Wuhan, China, has killed nearly 3,300 people and infected more than 95,000. The virus, which causes a disease known as COVID-19, has spread to at least 81 countries.

 

More than 150 cases have been reported in the US, including 11 deaths across two states. The World Health Organization has declared the outbreak an international public-health emergency and warned that the window of opportunity to contain it is narrowing.

 

On Tuesday, the WHO noted that the global death rate for the novel coronavirus based on the latest figures was 3.4% — higher than earlier figures of about 2%. The WHO's director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said the new coronavirus was "a unique virus with unique characteristics."

 

While much is still unknown about the virus, the group of Australian experts has produced a warning about the impact the virus might have on people's lives if left unchecked.

 

New modeling from The Australian National University looks at seven scenarios of how the COVID-19 outbreak might affect the world's wealth, ranging from low severity to high severity.

 

Four of the seven scenarios in the paper examine the impact of COVID-19 spreading outside China, ranging from low to high severity. A seventh scenario examines a global impact in which a mild pandemic occurs each year indefinitely.

 

But even in the low-severity model — or best-case scenario of the seven, which the paper acknowledged were not definitive — ANU researchers estimate a global GDP loss of $2.4 trillion, with an estimated death toll of 15 million. They modeled their estimates on the Hong Kong flu pandemic, an outbreak in 1968-1969 that is estimated to have killed about 1 million people.

 

In the high-severity model — modeled after the Spanish flu pandemic, which killed an estimated 17 million to 50 million globally from 1918 to 1920 — the global GDP loss could be as high as $9 trillion. In that model, the death toll is estimated to surpass 68 million.

 

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[twa]

use Everclear 190 proof

[Skintime]

24 minutes ago, twa said:

use Everclear 190 proof

That stuff leads to serious hangovers

[Sacks 'n' Stuff]

I would like to thank Obama for reminding me that real leadership sometimes just means telling people that they need to wash their hands.

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[skinsmarydu]

Another tip from my mom, the RN: (Ive always known this, but she told me to tell everyone)...bleach does not clean things, it sanitizes. Wash things first with hot soapy water, then sanitize (with COLD water, as cold keeps bacterial growth down). Anything bleached also should be thoroughly rinsed, and she stressed the "thoroughly" part. 

 

[CousinsCowgirl84]

3 hours ago, SoCalSkins said:

fake news

 

 

Hard meh.  😒  Don’t make me explain why i bought two bottles...

 

 

 

 Do you some absolute 100 💯 then.

Edited March 6, 2020 by CousinsCowgirl84