I’ve watched this video a few times now. I posted this video a few days back but want to again so anyone who missed it can have a look.
This guy is Dr. Richard Hatchett, who sat on the White House Homeland Security Council in 2005 - 2006 and was a principal author of the National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza Implementation Plan, and currently heads the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations. So clearly he is a top authority in pandemics. These are a few quotes from the interview.
"This is the most frightening disease I’ve ever encountered in my career, and that includes Ebola, it includes MERS, it includes SARS. And it’s frightening because of the combination of infectiousness and a lethality that appears to be manyfold higher than flu."
"I think the most concerning thing about this virus is the combination of infectiousness and the ability to cause severe disease or death. And we have not since 1918, the Spanish Flu, seen a virus that combined those two qualities in the same way. We have seen very lethal viruses. We have seen certainly, Ebola, or Nipah, or any of the other diseases that CEPI, the organisation that I run, works on - but those viruses had high mortality rates - I mean, Ebola’s mortality rate in some settings is greater than 80%. But they don’t have the infectiousness that this does. They don’t have the potential to explode and spread globally."
If this guy is worried and getting prepared… you should be to.
The latest reports state that there are over 90,000 people infected globally and more than 3,000 people have died from COVID19 since December… with the majority of deaths being in China. There have been 13 confirmed COVID19 deaths in the USA, so far.
People should also know that the flu kills more than 300,000 people globally each year.
From October 1, 2019 to February 1, 2020 the CDC estimates that at least 12,000 and perhaps as many as 30,000 people have died as a result of influenza so far this flu season, in the USA alone.
COVID19 is a new virus that has people freaking out… same as the bird flu, swine flu or SARS did when they were first discovered. The flu kills more people each year than all these viruses put together.
Things you can do to help stop the spread of viruses.
Wash your hands frequently.
Cover your nose and mouth when you cough/sneeze.
Stay away from sick people.
It would be really helpful if ONLY people who are already ACTUALLY SICK and/or healthcare professionals were the only ones wearing face masks.
Then it would be easy to see who to stay away from!!!
Your quote or the infectious disease guys. I’ll believe the infections disease DR
Dr. Richard Hatchett, who sat on the White House Homeland Security Council in 2005 - 2006 and was a principal author of the National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza Implementation Plan, and currently heads the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, told the UK’s Channel 4 :
" This is the most frightening disease I’ve ever encountered in my career , and that includes Ebola, it includes MERS, it includes SARS. And it’s frightening because of the combination of infectiousness and a lethality that appears to be manyfold higher than flu."
All this info is in the other Coronavirus thread sorry for repeating myself.
Have a read and get a feel for what’s it’s like in a country like Italy who is having trouble containing this. It’s not about panic, it’s called facing Reality and being prepared.
Hey @STIGGY,
You can make a disinfecting spray that’s safe for most skin types and surfaces by mixing 3.2oz of clorox bleach with 5gals of water.
I used to clean my carboys with much higher concentrations than that and suffered no ill effects other than making my hands smell like Fritos.
> I can also assure you that when you see young people who end up intubated in the ICU, pronated or worse, in ECMO (a machine for the worst cases, which extracts the blood, re-oxygenates it and returns it to the body, waiting for the lungs to hopefully heal), all this confidence for your young age goes away.
That means old folks aren’t the only ones affected.
Even though I’ve been on top of this event and prepared my family as much as possible, my mind just won’t come to grips with the reality of this thing.
I am going to prepare for bugging out next.
It will probably cost myself and my family our jobs but that cost is nothing next to their lives.
Still no reported cases in the flatlands of Michigan.
Just ordering a new weapon today. Was thinking about a new piece anyway, and this thing makes it easy! In my area, they have enough trouble with gangs in normal times…this could make things way worse. Nevada is still the wild west!
Freezers are full…masks and soaps on hand
@V4vendetta Wait he said he’s dealt with it since the 1970’s and then says humans have never dealt with this virus before… how did they not familiarize themselves with this thing if they’ve been working with it that long?
They still think talking about this virus is racist.
