Very possible. We usually have tons of Chinese visitors. The first admitted notice of a new virus in China was about Dec. 1, then a few more in Dec. but it was all blown off until January when it couldn't be hidden. So with the long incubation time (apparently), it could have been around longer: to be sick in early December implies being infected in November. However, remember there are always a lot of flu strains around and it is also possible that one could have the flu (or anything) and later be reexposed and not only get sick but have an allergic reaction too, which seems to be what is killing some of the corona patients. I also got sick just after Thanksgiving with something indefinable and felt later it was some sort of flu. We need a retroactive test.
I like this better, the effect on the nose is quick but it goes all the way down eventually. I started to use it when I had allergic pulmonitis, or pneumonia, or something, and was tired of cortisone and antihistamine not helping. Throw some stainless steel nuts in the salt to help beat it to a powder.
Of course epidemics rise and fall. People either get it and become immune or they don't get it, either way the pathogen runs out of hosts. That said, I take issue with the author's comment that "common flu is much more contagious." How can he say that? no one ever made a massive quarantine effort against the flu as they have done against COVID-19. Also, we don't know the truth about how it developed in China. It makes sense that in a place with bad air and a lot of smokers and dense population, there would be more deaths, but that doesn't tell us about the number of people with mild symptoms. It might be so mild it never gets noticed until someone develops a retrospective test. I think the safest thing we can say now is that being careful and clean and limiting contact is very effective.
"Chess" is a long game, implying foresight. I think it's Trump being Trump, as he describes in the Art of the Deal. He doesn't like to plan too much, but he does like to be in touch with everything, so when an opportunity arises he jumps in. He can make lemonade out of lemons better than anyone I ever saw.
Hmm. This may be why POTUS did not endorse Tuberville. And despite the people saying POTUS called Sessions a traitor, he didn't do that either. He said Sessions caved like a coward and was useless on Russia, and a strong primary challenger was what he deserved for that.
FTA: a symptomatic secondary attack rate of 0.45% (95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.12%–1.6%) among all close contacts, and a symptomatic secondary attack rate of 10.5% (95% CI = 2.9%–31.4%) among household members
The secondary attacks are the people who later turned up positive after being exposed to someone known to be infected. Notice all the parameters for exposure, like "10 minutes within 6 feet in the community," i.e. that would be the dreaded "community spread" as opposed to "lives in close contact." Half a percent doesn't seem too much for the casual contacts but it goes way up for close contact. However, you have to find another disease like regular flu for a reference.
So many possibilities--what I would like would be some kind of reference source where one could find things like timelines or names. Say you wanted to know all the things that led to Gen. Flynn being where he is today, lists of the identified crooks in the FBI, what was going on in June of 2018, things like that.The search function didn't always hit the right post.
Yet lots of time and productivity is lost when so many people have the flu, mostly because they won't stay home when sick. Like there's some virtue in dragging yourself to work, doing a half-assed job, and making everyone else sick. If one thing comes from this corona virus, I hope it is people realizing that they should stay home and let the flu die off sooner from lack of carriers.
It's too true that one death is a tragedy and 10 million is a statistic. We can relate to a few people. After that, I don't know if we are numb or sense kicks in, but we see against a backdrop of 300 million that 50,000 isn't that much.
They are unavailable, and more important, the process is "uncontrolled." This way there's half a chance to figure out the incubation and contagious periods, and also try different test kits to see how accurate they are.
Everyone who is concerned (or not) about test kits and why aren't we all tested, etc., should read the section on Limitations. It might as well say testing isn't that helpful and a lot of this is guesswork or after the fact.
That's the point. Biden and Burisma is really old news, even the Atlantic mentioned it years ago. Now though we are grappling with a coup which no doubt has big CIA elements, the CIA is in this corrupt Burisma, and thus Romney is connected both to Burisma and at least second hand with the CIA. I have always thought it was pretty bizarre that Egg McMuffin would show up to try to tilt the electoral vote. Maybe he was part of the coup insurance plan. Does that mean Mittens is in on it too? or is he just a venial bitter weasel grifting along with the Washington crowd?
I think there are two or three groups and that they intersect. One is the lifelong bureaucrats who have come to think they run things. They are like the fat nasty secretary who would be fired immediately except that he/she is the only one who knows where anything is. Those I would call the Deep State. The other is the Shadow Government, the movers and shakers like Soros who leverage money or blackmail to get their minions in power positions to push their agenda. And the third intersecting group seems to be the intelligence community . Just my opinion.
Soros is working hard on our not that red state.