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From the way it sounds, I don't think too many people will be surviving that third wave.
originally posted by: Bicent
a reply to: musicismagic
Can you provide a link about this revelation about the virus, please. I don’t doubt you, but I am hearing all kinds of speculation at the moment, either misinformation is occurring misinterpretation and or terror or all of the above. Even if it’s in Japanese bro.
So what happens on the third strike? Things get even worse, or no change from the second strike?
New England Journal of Medicine says coronavirus in the USA appears to be no worse than the flu.
originally posted by: musicismagic
this morning Hokkaido now is all quarantine (meaning everyone is to stay home) sad to say this: it is now spreading like wild fire there.
originally posted by: burdman30ott6
originally posted by: musicismagic
this morning Hokkaido now is all quarantine (meaning everyone is to stay home) sad to say this: it is now spreading like wild fire there.
According to everything I'm reading, Hokkaido has 66 confirmed cases. 66 out of 5.28 million residents. Their first case was recorded in late January, so in a month they went from 1 to 66...
I'm having the same conundrum I had with China. The numbers do not seem to warrant this degree of aggressive response. We aren't being told something(s). Either complications or circumstances are known by those in charge that aren't being shared and warrant this response or the governments are overreacting. Look... if this is bad ass enough to warrant these responses, why in the blue hell did Japan EVER move a single human being on or off that cruise ship in Japanese waters? Nations are gonna excuse bringing their own out of quarantine zones and back into their homesoil in absence of any legal mandate forcing them to do so because "it was the right thing to do," but they're going to paint this as devastating enough a virus to warrant massive life altering changes, lockdowns, and closures for whole cities and prefectures? bull#. Something's happening here that we aren't privy to.
The U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in contrast, has done only 459 tests since the epidemic began. The rollout of a CDC-designed test kit to state and local labs has become a fiasco because it contained a faulty reagent. Labs around the country eager to test more suspected cases—and test them faster—have been unable to do so. No commercial or state labs have the approval to use their own tests.
originally posted by: burdman30ott6
originally posted by: musicismagic
Are you in Japan too?
No, Alaska.