Corona Virus (COVID-19)( SARS-CoV-2) from China: Its going to be bad.

[cirus]

People don't get it, whole families going to Walmart, mom dad and kids. Just one adult should go. Galveston beaches being closed because people aren't smart enough to stay home. NYC kids out playing basketball. Houston area has 997 cases when just a few days ago the number was around 300. Stay home!

I have noticed the family outings myself. I repair A/C so I have to be out and about to keep people cooling. I stopped at Lowes to pick up a few filters. A/C supply houses are making it hard to buy from. I saw many couples and a few entire families in there wondering around. Went to Walmart to get a hose. Lady in front of me had three kids with her. Saw many couples shopping for lawn and garden supplies. I get it. People get bored sitting at home but it reminds me of "ice days" when the roads are bad early in the morning so people stay home from work. By 10 AM they are all out shopping and getting food. Too dangerous to work but not to dangerous to go shopping. Human nature at work.

People are out and about because it hasn't effected them yet. This is just an inconvenience. When people they know start dying or the bodies start piling up they'll listen. Most people live in a bubble and if doesn't directly effect them they could care less. The American people have been sheltered to long from the bad things in the world. They just see it in the news and it's always in another country. Im afraid it's time for a reality check for a lot of people.

[philip964]

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congre ... r-n1172311

Congresswoman Velazquez was near Pelosi in the House for the big vote. She has a presumed Covid-19 infection.

[DevilDawg]

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congre ... r-n1172311

Congresswoman Velazquez was near Pelosi in the House for the big vote. She has a presumed Covid-19 infection.

Are you trying to get me to cheer for the COVID?

[Liberty]

People don't get it, whole families going to Walmart, mom dad and kids. Just one adult should go. Galveston beaches being closed because people aren't smart enough to stay home. NYC kids out playing basketball. Houston area has 997 cases when just a few days ago the number was around 300. Stay home!

I think closing the beaches in Galveston was unnecessary. I was out on the beaches yesterday before the surprise closure order. There were very few people. People weren't just obeying the 6 ft rule, they were following a 200-yard social distancing rule. A walk on a near-empty beach is pretty harmless and has done my mental health a lot of good. I think that City just hates seeing people enjoying themselves and was looking for a way to take a little bit of joy from people's lives. City is run by restaurant mafia and is butthurt cause the county shut down the restaurants.

[03Lightningrocks]

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congre ... r-n1172311

Congresswoman Velazquez was near Pelosi in the House for the big vote. She has a presumed Covid-19 infection.

Best news in a long while.

[Chaparral]

People don't get it, whole families going to Walmart, mom dad and kids. Just one adult should go. Galveston beaches being closed because people aren't smart enough to stay home. NYC kids out playing basketball. Houston area has 997 cases when just a few days ago the number was around 300. Stay home!

I think closing the beaches in Galveston was unnecessary. I was out on the beaches yesterday before the surprise closure order. There were very few people. People weren't just obeying the 6 ft rule, they were following a 200-yard social distancing rule. A walk on a near-empty beach is pretty harmless and has done my mental health a lot of good. I think that City just hates seeing people enjoying themselves and was looking for a way to take a little bit of joy from people's lives. City is run by restaurant mafia and is butthurt cause the county shut down the restaurants.

Just guessing, but maybe closing the beaches was more of an attempt at keeping people from more infected areas from coming into Galveston - removing a temptation for those considering Galveston as a travel/vacation destination?

[der Teufel]

So an accountant friend posed this question. Your a lending company with loans- you have payed off loans, loans that defaulted and required repossession and total loans made.

Lets say the name of your lending company is the USA. Here is the data for the USA.

USA
1.Total loans made 143,532
2. Payed off loans 4,865
3. Defaulted loans required repossession 2,572

4. Active loans = (1. - 2. - 3.) = 136,096 loans

5. Percent of loans that defaulted and required repossession = ( 3. /( 2.+ 3.) ) = 34.58 %

I stopped reading here. If I run the numbers I get:

2,572 / (4,865 + 143,532) = 2,572 / 148,397 = 0.01733 = 1.73%

1.73% is a lot different from 34.58%

What's up? Someone is way off. Maybe it's me, but if so please explain.

[Liberty]

People don't get it, whole families going to Walmart, mom dad and kids. Just one adult should go. Galveston beaches being closed because people aren't smart enough to stay home. NYC kids out playing basketball. Houston area has 997 cases when just a few days ago the number was around 300. Stay home!

I think closing the beaches in Galveston was unnecessary. I was out on the beaches yesterday before the surprise closure order. There were very few people. People weren't just obeying the 6 ft rule, they were following a 200-yard social distancing rule. A walk on a near-empty beach is pretty harmless and has done my mental health a lot of good. I think that City just hates seeing people enjoying themselves and was looking for a way to take a little bit of joy from people's lives. City is run by restaurant mafia and is butthurt cause the county shut down the restaurants.

Just guessing, but maybe closing the beaches was more of an attempt at keeping people from more infected areas from coming into Galveston - removing a temptation for those considering Galveston as a travel/vacation destination?

I wasn't at all the beaches, but I was at Stuart at about 10-11 am, I saw about 4 people at a mile of beach. Was down at East beach a few days ago I didn't see anyone, but it was during the week. I don't think the beach is drawing in a lot of outsiders. It just seems to me that a quiet beach is a lot safer than the buses that are still running.

[03Lightningrocks]

We should be shutting down flights coming in from China. Waiting until it is worse makes no sense at all.Hopefully they are isolating the "American" citizens they are flying out of China.

I was looking through the thread and found this post on January 28th. President Trump then followed my advise on January 31st. Maybe he is watching this thread!

[03Lightningrocks]

North Texas numbers to date


Cases Deaths Recovered

Collin County 160 1 41
Dallas County 560 12 2
Denton County 191 3 30
Tarrant County 155 1 8
Total 1,124 20 81

https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/coronavirus ... y/2342294/

[The Annoyed Man]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/hea ... 925968001/

US first country to report more than 100,000 infections.

Important word here - report

That’s "reported" cases. It’s a safe bet that China’s numbers are actually higher. They just lie out the wazoo.

It’s ALSO worth noting that the number of American dead is doubling rapidly now. We were at a little over 800 dead just 2 days ago—Wednesday. It’s just shy of 1,700 right now, on Friday. At this rate, don’t be surprised if the number of dead hits 3,400 on Sunday, 6,800 on Tuesday, 13,600 on Thursday, etc.

This is bad.

So, looking at this website's graphs, the US numbers are doubling about every 2.5 days ... not as bad as what I had previously posted, but still, very bad. The site updates around 7pm central daily, using the Johns Hopkins numbers, and it’s a good way of looking at the data: http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/

[philip964]

March 21, 2020- 297,090 world. 12,755 dead. 22,177 infected US, 340 dead. 53,578 Italy ,4825 dead. 81,304 China Texas has 434 Houston at 117.

March 22, 2020- 318,662 world, 13,672 dead. 27,004 infected US,
347 dead. 53,578 Italy, 4,825 dead. 81,397 China. Texas has 557 with 5 deaths. Houston at 154.

March 23, 2020- 354,677 cases worldwide with 15430 dead. 35,345 infected US, 473 dead. 59,138 Italy with 5,476 dead. 81,496 China. Texas has 674 with 8 deaths. Houston 166 with 2 deaths.

March 24, 2020 am- 396,249 cases worldwide with 17,252 dead. 46,805 infected US, 593 dead. 63,927 Italy with 6,077 dead. 81,591 China (is anyone believing this). Texas has 807 with 9 deaths. Houston 199 with 2 Deaths.

March 25, 2020 pm- 468,523 cases worldwide with 21,192 dead. 66,132 infected US, 947 dead. 74,386 Italy with 7,503 dead. 81,667 China (is anyone believing this). New York state has 33,006 with 366 deaths. Louisiana has 1,795 with 65 deaths. Texas has 1,289 with 16 deaths. Houston 371 with 2 deaths.

March 26, 2020 am. 492,603 cases worldwide with 22,184 dead. 69,210 infected US, 1,046 dead. 74,386 Italy with 7,503 dead. 81,782 China (is anyone believing this). New York state has 33,006 with 366 deaths. Louisiana has 1,795 with 65 deaths. Texas has 1,353 with 17 deaths. Houston 372 with 2 deaths.

March 27, 2020 am. 553,244 cases worldwide with 25,935 dead. 86,012 infected US, 1,301 dead. 80,589 Italy with 8,215 dead. 81,897 China (is anyone believing this). New York state has 39,140 with 461 deaths. Louisiana has 2,304 with 83 deaths. Texas has 1,353 with 17 deaths. Houston 461 with 3 deaths.

March 28, 2020 12:48 pm. 640,589 cases worldwide with 29,848 dead. 112,458 infected US, 1,841 dead. 92,472 Italy with10,023 dead. 81,999 China (is anyone believing this). New York state has 52,318 with 728 deaths. Louisiana has 2,746 with 119 deaths. Texas has 2,026 with 26 deaths. Houston 543 with 4 deaths.

March 29, 2020 10:48 am. 684,652 cases worldwide with 32,113 dead. 124,763 infected US, 2,187 dead. 92,472 Italy with (no data) dead. 82,120 China (is anyone believing this). New York state has 53,520 with 834 deaths. Louisiana has 3,315 with 137 deaths. Texas has 2,535 with 34 deaths. Houston 810 with 6 deaths.

March 30, 2020 10:01 am. 741,030 cases worldwide with 35,114 dead. 143,532 infected US, 2,572 dead 4,865 recovered. 97,689 Italy with 10,779 dead. 82,198 China (is anyone believing this). New York state has 60,679 with 1,026 deaths. Louisiana has 3,540 with 151deaths. Texas has 2,306 with 34 deaths. Houston 929 with 8 deaths.

March 31, 2020 9:05 am. 803,313 cases worldwide with 39,014 dead. 164,719 infected US, 3,170 dead 5,945 recovered. 101,739 Italy with 11,591 dead. 94,417 Spain with 8,189 dead. China 82,276 (is anyone believing this). New York state has 67,384 with 1,342 deaths. New Jersey has 16,636 with 198 deaths. Louisiana has 4,025 with 185 deaths. Texas has 3,339 with 48 deaths. Houston 1,054 with 11 deaths.

China isolates bat viruses near Wuhan animal market
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/20 ... ses-near-/

Chinese Biological experiments to infect humans with coronavirus exposed in 2015 by Italian state media.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ ... lian-state

[imkopaka]

AFP News via Yahoo: AI tool predicts which coronavirus patients get deadly 'wet lung'.

Researchers in the US and China reported Monday they have developed an artificial intelligence tool that is able to accurately predict which newly infected patients with the novel coronavirus go on to develop severe lung disease...

The tool discovered several surprising indicators that were most strongly predictive of who went on to develop so-called acute respiratory disease syndrome (ARDS), a severe complication of the COVID-19 illness that fills the lungs with fluid and kills around 50 percent of coronavirus patients who get it.

The team applied a machine learning algorithm to data from 53 coronavirus patients across two hospitals in Wenzhou, China, finding that changes in three features -- levels of the liver enzyme alanine aminotransferase (ALT), reported body aches, and hemoglobin levels –- were most accurately predictive of subsequent, severe disease.

Article claims this tool predicts ARDS with 80% accuracy. Could this become a turning point for patient care and equipment allocation?

[philip964]

OMG Representative Sheila Jackson Lee is speaking live on TV from the opening of a new coronavirus drive thru testing center in Sugarland, Texas.

She was made for this crisis.

[Ruark]

changes in three features -- levels of the liver enzyme alanine aminotransferase (ALT), reported body aches, and hemoglobin levels –- were most accurately predictive of subsequent, severe disease.

I hate incomplete information like this. What about hemoglobin levels? Do they mean high, or low? Is there ANY information about WHAT levels of ALT and hemoglobin are significant?