All things Corona Virus

[Sonotony 82]

7 hours ago, Lemonslice said:

 

Why cases in Houston and Arizona then?  Oh wait, because one has nothing to do with the other... 

 

https://xkcd.com/1138/

 

[Ban Hammer 13,491]

1 hour ago, Sonotony said:

 

given the choice of seeing a movie with nicolas cage or drowning, drowning is the clear winner.

[laylalex 7,300]

3 minutes ago, Ban Hammer said:

given the choice of seeing a movie with nicolas cage or drowning, drowning is the clear winner.

I really enjoyed Mandy, which is kind of OTT with the violence and gore but if you like exploitation movies, it's a good one.

[Burnt Reynolds 5,058]

The new Vitamin B:

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Chinese markets again selling bats -- likely source of deadly pandemic -- reporters say

China is permitting wild animal markets to resume selling bats, believed to be the source for the deadly coronavirus now killing people across the globe, including over 2,500 Americans to date, British reporters say.

Chinese authorities in January closed down the Wuhan city “wet” market after five of its workers were among the first diagnosed with what would become COVID-19.

A number of scientists say it is likely that bats either infected other market animals or humans directly. Bats carry a variety of coronaviruses and are blamed on for the 2002 SARS coronavirus epidemic that also originated in a Chinese market.

 

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/mar/30/-scene-british-reporters-say-chinese-markets-again/

[yuna628 9,700]

1 hour ago, Burnt Reynolds said:

The new Vitamin B:

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/mar/30/-scene-british-reporters-say-chinese-markets-again/

Ugh. People need to leave poor bats alone. They should be respectfully loved and feared.

[yuna628 9,700]

Something of concern for those that have pets:

 

While there's no conclusive evidence that dogs can contract COVID19, it seems as if cats can. It doesn't seem the cats are spreading it to humans but humans are spreading it to the cats and cats can spread it to other cats. This seems to be a lab based study, but there has now been a couple of cases of cats becoming sick around the same time as their owners (I do not know about their outcomes). Ferrets may also be susceptible. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00984-8 Just like in humans I don't believe there is a treatment or cure for cats either. Other types of coronaviruses do infect cats. If it can infect a dog it seems to be a less likely occurrence but not without a possibility. Several labs have developed animal-based tests but veterinarians certainly want more information about how this disease could be a concern in the future, and while they say we shouldn't panic, we should be equally as cautious about hand washing  and keeping distance around pets if we are sick. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/03/should-pets-be-tested-coronavirus

 

Another issue with veterinarians right now - they are running out of masks and gloves too.

 

Also:

 

• Our daily total is still rising.
• We now have major outbreaks at nursing homes all over the state.
• One rural hospital is at max capacity.
• We lost our first few patients in this county last night.
• We've also had outbreaks at Amazon, meat packing plants, and USPS.

Edited April 1, 2020 by yuna628

[Boiler 45,952]

This bigotry about bats is disturbing.

[Ban Hammer 13,491]

[Randyandyuni 2,682]

Do you take checks???

[laylalex 7,300]

We've moved on from comma problems to apostrophe problems in memes.  

[Ban Hammer 13,491]

40 minutes ago, laylalex said:

We've moved on from comma problems to apostrophe problems in memes.  

1st world problems.........

[Burnt Reynolds 5,058]

 

 

[Burnt Reynolds 5,058]

 

[Nature Boy 2.0 8,378]

Our Governor just announced a shelter in place order.

 

Expect a shelter in place tent sale Friday

[Ban Hammer 13,491]

Ford Motor Co. is donating trucks to the public to ensure no one goes anywhere