The virus has been reported my city

Unbelivable !

I am in retail stores today and the cashiers are still ordering people to enter their stupid rewards numbers.

If I wanted to spread the virus I would tell people rub your face, put your index finger on that stupid touch screen, then rub your face again.

That's what I saw people doing today AFTER its on the news that the virus is here.

Standing on line watching people face touching then the buttons.

Their is no leadership in stopping this thing.

What the hell CDC, call CVS and Seven Eleven and tell them stop with that stupid shit telling everyone put their index finger on those nasty screens and buttons.

I always hated "rewards" programs but now WTF, people are so stupid !!!

 

that's how we log in at the gym too; the biotechnology fingerprint scanner.

There's hand sanitizer though. But from what I understand, washing your hands with soap and water for 20 seconds works better!

 

Fingerprint scanner how 1984 creepy, the best way to have clean hands is not to get them dirty in the first place.

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-st...rs-declare-state-of-emergency-for-coronavirus

They know people are always touching their face and its a very difficult habit to break how can intelligent people in charge of things like the CDC Works 24/7 not shut down stupid shit like stores ordering people to put their fingers all in the same spot like that ?

And people listen, not me but today I said screw that I am not touching that no way. I never touched those icky buttons even before this happened.

Since the first post I was out and we stopped at Walgreens the same thing and they ordered each person to enter stupid rewards number and they all did.

I am like no way you put your finger on the same spot 500 other people did today, yuck !! I am not going to do it.

 

"Of course, no one can be sure how many people have gotten sick from sharing touch-screen electronics. But the devices add to the growing list of so-called fomites — frequently handled objects — that have the potential of spreading disease.

Talk about going viral: Touch-screen devices harbor germs

 

Coronavirus Expert Instantly Contradicts Trump On 'Quick' Vaccine — Again
"Like I've been telling you, Mr. President," it's going to take a year and a half, corrected Dr. Anthony Fauci.

Donald Trump said there would be a vaccine inside six months - this is now contradicted by an eminent health expert.


Donald Trump promised on Monday that “very exciting things are happening rapidly” on the coronavirus front, including a possible “quick” vaccine. But that hope was instantly dashed by the top health expert on his Covid-19 task force, who said a vaccine might be ready in 18 months.


Trump appeared to confuse when a vaccine could be tested with when it could be safely used by Americans.

Trump’s specifics on the battle against coronavirus were vague, but he promised they would undoubtedly be “very successful.” He made his remarks as he met in the Oval Office with task force members and 10 pharmaceutical company executives.

Trump also vowed that “we will continue to do exactly what we’ve been doing,” even though the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been sharply criticised over its flawed, limited tests for the disease.

As for a vaccine, Trump said, “I’ve heard very quick numbers, that of months. And I’ve heard pretty much a year would be an outside number. So I think that’s not a bad range. But ... you’re talking about three to four months in a couple of cases, a year in other cases.”

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, instantly corrected Trump: “Let me make sure you get the ... information.” A vaccine could be ready “at the earliest [in] a year to a year-and-a-half, no matter how fast you go,” said Fauci, noting: “Like I’ve been telling you, Mr. President.”

Fauci also corrected Trump after his first news conference on the coronavirus last Wednesday, when the president insisted a vaccine was “very close.” Fauci later said a coronavirus vaccine could take up to two years.

The president underscored at the meeting that one company was talking about a vaccine in “two months.” But Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar pointed out to him that a vaccine could be ready to begin testing in two months. Vaccines go through three stages of testing before they’re available to the public much later.

Leonard Schleifer, the CEO of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, explained to Trump that a faulty vaccine can make a disease worse. “You don’t want to rush and treat a million people and find out you’re making 900,000 of them worse,” he said. Trump responded: “Good idea.”

Executives also had to explain to a stumped Trump that a typical flu vaccine won’t work against the new coronavirus.

The president appeared a bit foggy about vaccines in general. Schleifer explained about antibodies.

TRUMP asks a pharmaceutical CEO: "This would be a combination of a vaccine and also it will -- put it in a different way -- make you better, quicker?" pic.twitter.com/N7Wti1UByC

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 2, 2020
Critics on Twitter were stunned that Trump boasted about “exciting things” concerning the coronavirus, given the rapidly mounting number of cases in the nation (102 as of Monday evening) and the death count (six people in Washington state).

Exciting things like what? Intubating and ventilating assisted living residents? Acyn Torabi on Twitter

— Andrea R MD (@AndreaR9Md) March 2, 2020
Here we go again with the word salad nonsense and filler that doesn't indicate that Trump knows what's going on.

Cases are up.
Deaths are up.

None of that is exciting. It's not a game show. It's life and death, and his choices/statements have dire consequences.

— lawhawk (@lawhawk) March 2, 2020
Trump, soon as the experts leave: “So we’ll just go with the flu vaccine.” Oliver Willis on Twitter

— Richard Marx (@richardmarx) March 3, 2020
oh, my ... Oliver Willis on Twitter

— Don Cheadle (@doncheadle) March 3, 2020
This is scaryyyy pic.twitter.com/dmXMJmiyta

— Nanette M Alders (@nanettema) March 2, 2020
Just slap a flu vaccine on this bad boy and we're done.

— CSPAM2 (@cspamus1) March 2, 2020

 

It's world wide.
Stay safe mate

 

Isn't alcohol a way of disinfecting oneself ???

 

While there hasn’t been a recorded case in my city, 19 members of the High school I attended (ages ago) are now in a self-imposed quarantine after returning home from Italy.

At this point it’s a wait and see if any of the students or staff come down with the sickness.

 

Could be
But i'd try the logical things first.

 

But alcohol is logical - a small tot in my coffee every morning is enough to keep all the germs and viruses at bay.

 

An Irish coffee.

Don’t have too much Remedy Kombucha. You could get drunk.

 

Timeline for H1N1 in 2009 was April it was first noticed, June it was declared a pandemic, by November there was a vaccine being shipped everywhere

7 months from initial reports to vaccine

It does not take 18 months. That is just WHO officials, drug execs being overly cautious, giving their own organizations leeway


They are already testing this novel virus on ferrets, which is halfway through the process of implementing a vaccine.

There will be a vaccine ready before Australias flu season in June

 

No, not Irish Coffee, - I put a small tot (emphasis on small) in my coffee first thing in the morning - that is the only time I have any alcohol as I take quite a lot of medications, some of which doesn't mix too well with alcohol.

 

thanks, that song's been stuck in my head since i read this post an hour ago.

 

Heard there are no cases yet in Ballarat. This is good news indeed for FedUni.
For any concerned FedUni students wondering about uni policy.

Coronavirus – advice for staff and students

 

Post hoc ergo propter hoc...

 

No, not at all. There's a lot of things that I let slide on HF, but misinformation about contagious disease is not one of them.

Maybe you just meant this as a joke, but there might be someone dumb enough to believe that this is true, and as a result, many people could get sick.

Consuming alcohol will not lower your chances of getting sick, and indeed, alcoholics will likely be at greater risk.

Frequent hand washing, and using an alcohol (60%+) hand sanatizer might lower your chances of getting sick though.

 

That happened to me as well back in 2004 when I first heard that song in the movie Dawn of the Dead