One Case of Covid-19 (Previously Known as Novel Coronavirus) in Humboldt County

Humboldt County Department of Health & (and) Human Services DHHSPress release from the Department of Health and Human Services:

The Humboldt County Department of Health & Human Services Public Health Branch has received confirmation from the California Department of Public Health and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of one case of COVID-19 in a Humboldt County resident. A close contact who has symptoms is being tested as well.

This marks the first confirmed case of the novel coronavirus in Humboldt County. Presently, the ill individuals are doing well and self-isolating at home, while being monitored for symptoms by the Public Health Communicable Disease Surveillance and Control Unit.

Close contacts of these individuals will also be quarantined at home and monitored for symptoms by Public Health staff. With the amount of foreign travel by county residents, including travel to China, it is not surprising that a case has emerged locally. Additional cases may occur either in returning travelers or their close contacts.

“It’s important to remember that the risk to the general public remains low at this time,” said Humboldt County Health Officer Dr. Teresa Frankovich.

Coronavirus COVID-19

Coronavirus [Image from Center for Disease Control]

 “Despite the fact that Humboldt County now has a confirmed case of COVID-19, there is no evidence to suggest that novel coronavirus is circulating in the community at large.”

Frankovich added that transmission in the U.S. to date has been among close contacts and not among the general public.

Public Health suggests the following precautions to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and all infectious diseases, including common illnesses like colds and flu:

• Stay home when you are sick
• If you have a fever, stay home or go home if you are already at work or school, and stay home for at least 24 hours after you no longer have a fever (without the use of fever-reducing medicine).
• Wash your hands frequently and particularly before eating or drinking.
• Promote good hand hygiene in your home by educating household members and making sure soap, hand sanitizers, and tissues are available.
• Avoid touching your face, particularly your eyes, nose and mouth.
• Encourage proper cough etiquette. Cough or sneeze into a tissue, sleeve or arm. Do not use your hands.
• Perform routine surface cleaning, particularly for items which are frequently touched such as doorknobs, handles, remotes, keyboards and other commonly shared surfaces.

The county’s Communicable Disease Surveillance and Control Unit will continue to provide updated information about COVID-19 to health care providers, hospitals and schools, as well as the general public.

For updated information about COVID-19, please continue to check the https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/.

If you are ill and in need of medical care and have been in China within the previous two weeks or have been in contact with an individual who has COVID-19, please contact your health care provider or emergency department before presenting for care. Arrangements will be made to have you evaluated in the safest manner possible for health care staff and other patients.

UPDATE: Answering Questions About Covid-19 (AKA the Coronavirus) in Humboldt County

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The misadventures of bunjee
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The misadventures of bunjee
4 years ago

“ “Despite the fact that Humboldt County now has a confirmed case of COVID-19, there is no evidence to suggest that novel coronavirus is circulating in the community at large.”

Well, it made it here from China and prior to this the US only had less than 20 cases. It has circulated largely, just nobody else (that they know of) is symptomatic. So far.

BOBCATz
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BOBCATz
4 years ago

It would be great if people that have been out of the country in the last month, especially China and the Philippines, could not hang out with everyone at the hang out spot. It is this dumb s#*Г that will get us all sick!!

Oh it’s just the sniffles.

Guest
Guest
Guest
4 years ago

I think we need a whooolata more information folks. Like where the fuck it is, for starters. Rex?

HotCoffee
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HotCoffee
4 years ago

My understanding is that people trying to get out of China are escaping into Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia etc.

We do not have a travel ban with those countries.

from the SF Chronicle

Coronavirus: 22 more cruise evacuees, including 16 in Bay Area, sent to hospitals

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Coronavirus-22-more-cruise-evacuees-sent-to-15072010.php

Coronavirus live updates: 6,700 people in California told to quarantine at home

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Coronavirus-live-updates-Death-toll-exceeds-1-000-15045880.php

Hundreds in Bay Area self-isolating, watching for coronavirus symptoms

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Hundreds-in-Bay-Area-who-traveled-to-China-15071998.php

Coronavirus hits Bay Area: What residents need to know

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Wuhan-coronavirus-Here-s-what-we-know-15000563.php

HotCoffee
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HotCoffee
4 years ago
Reply to  HotCoffee

Over a Dozen Americans Who Tested Positive For Coronavirus Flown Back to US on Flight With 300 Others, Ignoring CDC Objections

Fourteen Americans who tested positive for the Coronavirus were flown back to the US on a flight with over 300 people who were not infected, despite objections from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The flight was filled with people who were evacuated from the Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan, which had been quarantined due to an outbreak of the virus.

The State Department and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) officials were behind the decision to allow the fourteen people to fly back to the states — ignoring the warnings from the CDC, who said that others on the flight could become infected.

The plane had a plastic-lined enclosure to separate the infected passengers from the others, according to a report from the Washington Post.

Well now…
A planes air filtration systems has always been know as a serious danger to all passengers! But then these were gov. officials making the decisions, gov. officials are usually brain dead! I think it is a job requirement!

Wordz
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Wordz
4 years ago

Well, where have they been the last few days? Not like it just popped up while they sat in the living room. What area are they in? What stores have they shopped at? So many questions….

WholySheohyt
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WholySheohyt
4 years ago

This means anyone in Humboldt could of been exposed and will not know for up to a month if they are infect, meanwhile they will spread the disease. Doctors are saying a 20% death rate for those infected. Re-infection is a 50% death rate.

Kelley Lincoln
4 years ago
Reply to  WholySheohyt

I do not know about a fatality rate for people who get re-infected, but the highest fatality rate is in wuhan where the government assigned as cause of death all people who had flu like symptoms, and that fatality rate is just under 5%. That is not a low probability, but it is certainly much lower than 20%.
If you are prone to colds and flus, redouble your hand washing efforts and stay out of public spaces as much as possible.

Concerned Business Owner and Resident
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Concerned Business Owner and Resident
4 years ago
Reply to  Kelley Lincoln

Kelly,

Can we find out exactly what Humboldt officials are doing to contain, quarantine and alert other possible contacts? The services in this county are not adequate to handle something like this — It seems that state and federal agencies, CDC, should be handling? There really need to be some answers on this and fast!!

Forest
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Forest
4 years ago

The state and feds don’t have the ability to handle a pandemic

Concerned Business Owner and Resident
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Concerned Business Owner and Resident
4 years ago
Reply to  Kelley Lincoln

Can we also check that this virus has NOT been identified inside of the homeless community? Given that there is minimal effort allocated locally to clean up camps and needles — and limited access to sanitation services — this is a disaster…

b.
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b.
4 years ago

Yeah, those homeless people sure do a lot of flying to China when they go on vacation. And on sabbatical they go down to the San Francisco airport and spare change so they can afford their regular lifestyle.

Concerned Business Owner and Resident
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Concerned Business Owner and Resident
4 years ago
Reply to  b.

CA as a state is like a hazmat zone and poorly managed…. so you better pray this doesn’t make it to the streets….

likeaGood
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likeaGood
4 years ago

Pulling paranoid and baseless statements out of your ass does not make them valid. You know that, right?

HotCoffee
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HotCoffee
4 years ago

Health and Science

CDC prepares for possibility coronavirus becomes a pandemic and businesses, schools need to be closed
Published Fri, Feb 21 202012:32 PM EST Updated Moments Ago

Key Points

The CDC is working with state and local health departments to ready the public health workforce to respond to a possible pandemic.
The agency is collaborating with supply chain partners, hospitals, pharmacies and manufacturers to understand what medical supplies are needed.
The CDC is reviewing all of its pandemic materials and adapting them to COVID-19.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/21/us-health-officials-prepare-for-coronavirus-outbreak-to-become-pandemic.html

1:43 pm Only three states can test for coronavirus because of flawed kits

California, Nebraska and Illinois are the only U.S. states that can currently test for coronavirus, the Association of Public Health Laboratories told Reuters. The CDC last week said some of the testing kits sent to U.S. states and at least 30 countries produced “inconclusive” results due to a flawed component, and the CDC planned to send replacement materials to make the kits work. The CDC has increased testing capacity until new testing kits become available, said Scott Becker, the executive director of APHL, which represents public health laboratories in the United States. —Reuters

Keahi
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Keahi
4 years ago
Reply to  Kelley Lincoln

Vitamin C, Vitamin C, Vitamin C!!!! Remember your Linus Pauling!!! Same family of viruses as the common cold. Start with 1 gram (1000 mg) and work up to 3 grams. It will absolutely help, I promise!!! See the book, “Vitamin C, the Common Cold, and the Flu” by Doctor Linus Pauling, who won a Nobel Prize in Medicine for his work with Vitamin C.

Calm is best
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Calm is best
4 years ago
Reply to  Kelley Lincoln

Hi I think to keep in mind that every case in America has been directly linked to China. The worst thing to do is panic and worry yourself to a frenzy. The health force is being trained to handle this and obviously doing a great job as the virus has not spread except by a connection with China. To target homeless people as flu patients spreading the virus is letting your fear cloud good sound judgement. Kelley Lincoln is right about a 3% to 5% death rate because that is what I read this morning on the CDC web page. So relax and practice hand washing techniques. To make sure you have washed your hands by nursing standards, scrub them with a good antiseptic soap and keep your hands under running water with water running down your fingers into sink and sing “Yankee Doodle went to town riding on a pony”. When you have finished singing your hands should be washed well.

Lisa Keller
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Lisa Keller
4 years ago
Reply to  WholySheohyt

It’s one in 50 death rate, not one in 5.
Not saying this is good news but facts are important

Robin
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Robin
4 years ago
Reply to  WholySheohyt

I don’t believe you. But I’ve been washing my hands when I get home for years and years. Precaution, not paranoia will serve us better. From the article:

Close contacts of these individuals will also be quarantined at home and monitored for symptoms by Public Health staff. With the amount of foreign travel by county residents, including travel to China, it is not surprising that a case has emerged locally. Additional cases may occur either in returning travelers or their close contacts.

“It’s important to remember that the risk to the general public remains low at this time,” said Humboldt County Health Officer Dr. Teresa Frankovich.

Nottrynacatchit
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Nottrynacatchit
4 years ago

Yo, so I don’t want to be rude or anything but lets take a leaf out of the Chinese playbook and burn the house weld the doors and windows shut. 🏡🔥

Cy Anse
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Cy Anse
4 years ago

Let’s be honest, no one gets to Humboldt from China or one of the cruise ships without interacting with a lot of others. Too many will ignore or evade quarantine or self-isolation because they don’t take it seriously and refuse to be inconvenienced. Until they get so sick they have to be hospitalized in the already overcrowded local system.

In other words, we’re screwed.

Humboldt Lady
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Humboldt Lady
4 years ago

In China they are quarantining the cash. If it can be passed on cash, it can certainly be passed through packaging from China. Be careful what you are ordering and I’d make sure it is not coming from China. https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/trends/health-trends/china-quarantines-cash-in-coronavirus-hit-areas-to-prevent-spread-of-deadly-disease-4948491.html

Chuck U
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Chuck U
4 years ago
Reply to  Humboldt Lady

Current research shows it can live for 9 days without a host, not long enough to make it to a store shelf. *There is not a lot of data but that is the current belief*

Mobius Dancer
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Mobius Dancer
4 years ago
Reply to  Humboldt Lady

I had that same thought a week or two ago… Nine days? That’s long enough to travel from China to US. I’ve had packages shipped from China that arrived in less than a week.
Who knows who packed it, attached the label….
This is going to devastate the Chinese economy once the “Officials” think of it.

Fndrbndr
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Fndrbndr
4 years ago

Part of the problem with this virus is the failure to take it seriously. The DHHS should inform the public of dates and exact locations of individuals who are known carriers. I’m not saying release the names or addresses. Just probable transmission dates and locations. We know the 14 day window, and it first seems like a regular cold. This is why transmission rates are so high. If we know of possible contact we can act accordingly at the first signs of sickness.

Critter
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Critter
4 years ago
Reply to  Fndrbndr

Sadly, that window is longer than 14 days. Looks like more than 24 days. The quarantines in place are not long enough. I already stocked up and am STAYING HOME.

Fndrbndr
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Fndrbndr
4 years ago
Reply to  Critter

I live way out in the hills and can’t get to town for awhile. Freezer still has a couple more months of food. I feel for everyone down there. Stay safe, maybe get tested Just in case.

Chuck U
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Chuck U
4 years ago

Let’s hope that is it, because when I come to Eureka shopping and have to use the restroom or take my kids half the people leaving the restroom don’t wash their hands. Always comforting in a supermarket after listening to someone destroy a toilet stall…BTW, latest research out today says it is transmissible through feces and blood as well as vapor droplets. Wash your damn hands!

Guest
Guest
Guest
4 years ago

Since from the first words that made it out of China, this virus has appeared to be very contagious but by far the majority of people will not get very sick from it. People with impaired immune systems need to be cautious but most should not be in huge danger.

Last week I had some medical tests what the hospital. There were prominent signs on entering to ask people if they had symptoms. So the hospital has taken very seriously and hpefully is prepared. But I admit that when one of the techs doing the meeting was coughing, it did cross my mind about it.

Joe Mota
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Joe Mota
4 years ago

Carry a small bottle of isopropyl (rubbing) alcohol with you and paper towels or a cotton hand towel. Whenever you touch anything including a market cart, a fuel nozzle at a gas station, door pull at the post office, whatever…put some alcohol on your towel and wipe your hands. Alcohol kills it. Where ever these people went before going into quarantine was infected. We are all at risk and need to take responsibility for not spreading it. I’m staying home for the next couple of weeks. It would be great if those of you who work in public places could wipe the surfaces with alcohol whenever you get a chance.

Ugh!

Just Saying
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Just Saying
4 years ago
Reply to  Joe Mota

they say alcohol doesn’t kill it.

bull
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bull
4 years ago
Reply to  Just Saying

Oh bull

Notheone
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Notheone
4 years ago

This is just not enough information from the health department. Don’t act like it’s okay not to give us more information! I want more information now!!!

Concerned Business Owner and Resident
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Concerned Business Owner and Resident
4 years ago
Reply to  Notheone

AGREED!!!!!! Who is taking over the case(s) at the state and federal level? This is necessary! Totally out of scope of county resources…..

We are fu....
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We are fu....
4 years ago

Figures we would get it here in nasty county. I’m taking this very seriously. Our health dept better also. This is killing people all over the world. Of all places Humboldt County. If it gets to the homeless population we will be in a very sorry state of affairs.

Sandy Beaches
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Sandy Beaches
4 years ago

I keep a small bottle of hand sanitizer, the kind with a pump dispenser, in my truck. After I buy gas or go shopping I clean my hands and wipe down the steering wheel. Kind of a reset to clean hands.

Chuck U
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Chuck U
4 years ago
Reply to  Sandy Beaches

+1! One of my wife’s best friends from childhood is a senior person at the CDC, she went out of her way to flag gas pumps to us. She gave us an interesting tip, swab everyone’s nostrils with triple anti-biotic ointment when we are out and about. She said she is more concerned with the current deadly flu going around, but that could change.

Amanda
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Amanda
4 years ago
Reply to  Chuck U

Why would a CDC person suggest antibiotic ointment to fend off a virus? Antibiotics are for bacteria. Antivirals are for viruses. All you are doing by using antibiotics when they are not needed is making more resistant bacteria. Source: cdc.gov/features/antibioticuse/index.html

Chuck U
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Chuck U
4 years ago
Reply to  Amanda

Good question! Just lost faith in the CDC if they are getting their health info off facebook rumors!

https://dearly.com/youve-heard-putting-antibiotic-ointment-nose-will-fight-flu-heres-pass/

Jean
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Jean
4 years ago
Reply to  Chuck U

Good advice!

DELLIB
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DELLIB
4 years ago

Humboldt asked for it. First China, now Humboldt. Since so many humboldters visit china. When are the military tanks going to be on the streets? I just knew this was going to happen. It was probably planned out anyway.

Guest
Guest
Guest
4 years ago
Reply to  DELLIB

You wouldn’t be the only one who “knew this was going to happen.” That is what a contagion is- it spreads. The only sensible thing is to take sensible precautions and not add fuel to others fears. It does nothing good. This is not the plague or close to it.

DELLIB
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DELLIB
4 years ago
Reply to  DELLIB

This really is agenda 2021. Or (Georgia Guidestones). Now I know why the drones were flying in formation in the midwest! Global economic depression and food shortage. Just ask Bill Gates. (Just don’t ask him for a vaccine). And it has nothing to do with Global Warming! Stay safe!

The Real Brian
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The Real Brian
4 years ago
Reply to  DELLIB

The Onion is hiring, was that your application?

Hilarious work!

DELLIB
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DELLIB
4 years ago
Reply to  The Real Brian

Nice of you to drop a comment. The Wuhan-400 will infect everybody. Dean R Koontz elaborated it in a horror novel in 1981. REAL. And please don’t ever troll my comments again.

DELLIB
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DELLIB
4 years ago
Reply to  DELLIB

Funny, the initial chinese doctor involved with the first breakout of cervesa virus DIED from it?? News to know! There are now 1600 paid trolls activated to suppress cervesa virus news. I don’t drink corona anymore… Estodas ala chinna!

Marc
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Marc
4 years ago
Reply to  DELLIB

Wait….WHAT? Are you saying the Mexican Cartels are involved with a Chinese Military Intelligence effort to infect Americans through contaminated crappy Mexican beer?

The Real Brian
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The Real Brian
4 years ago
Reply to  DELLIB

DELLIB should call yourself DaFIB, cause you be lyin!

I can’t wait to use your comments against you later this year.

“Wuhan will infect everybody”

“I don’t drink Corona anymore”

You are a shiny example of an uninformed citizen that John Kelly was talking about….

Lol, corona.

Jaekelopterus
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Jaekelopterus
4 years ago
Reply to  DELLIB

Remember Fema camps?
Remember Obamas-gonna-take-your-guns?
Remember Pizzagate?

The Real Brian
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The Real Brian
4 years ago
Reply to  Jaekelopterus

Enter CoronaGate, Q’anons latest “about to be” that never will do more than distract from Trumps follies.

Bozo
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Bozo
4 years ago

Graph of er… ‘semi-current’ Chinese cases.

If you are over 80… 14% (+-) death rate. Over 70, about 5% (+-).
Death rate from Corona virus decreases rapidly with younger age, not many deaths in younger age groups.

Over all the age groups.. death rate averages about 2% (+-).

Chuck U
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Chuck U
4 years ago
Reply to  Bozo

The death rates are misleading. At the end of last month when this really hit my radar (a friend’s kid teaches University outside Wuhan) I would watch the daily updates on China Global Television Network and they were verbally reporting the amount of people hospitalized for a couple weeks, this was the only source I could find with this number. I steadily tracked it at 1 out of 8 cases had to be hospitalized in ICU to keep them alive. From what I can find those survivors have permanent lung and heart damage, what is known is that your own defense mechanism does the damage in what is called a cytokine storm. And it is a long fight, around 2-3 weeks, look at the very low number of “cured” to “infected”. The way the American healthcare system is structure it would be a total clusterfuck, plus over 2000 healthcare workers have been infected using the best protection. If this took hold the system would be overrun.

Even where it is right now we may be facing a Black Swan economic event. China was already flashing 3 indicators for systemic bank failure (along with Canada, Italy and 4 others I don’t remember) before this showed up. The economic impact just today are massive and rippling worldwide. Now, take what I wrote above. In the United States, what does it cost to be in the ICU for 2-3 weeks? Just based on our health system alone it would be an economic disaster. Again, even if a cure is found tomorrow it may already be too late for the global economic reverberations. This is why everyone should take this very seriously and do everything in their power to prevent any possible spread. A good article on the economic reality, the writer has an MBA and a PHD in Neuro Biochemistry so he looks at this issue from both the business and clinical angles

https://www.peakprosperity.com/why-covid-19-demands-our-full-attention/

Critter
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Critter
4 years ago
Reply to  Chuck U

My weeks long research says you are correct. Lots of U.S states refusing to even give ANY info on current cases. Glad to at least have been notified about this recent case in Humboldt. Grassroots info from employees of hospitals and insurance companies nationwide say there are many unreported person to person cases. If the numbers don’t make sense, it is because they are false. The John Hopkins number for the US is crap. For more current info see thewuhanvirus.com.

Keno
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Keno
4 years ago
Reply to  Critter

If the numbers do not make sense, you are just bad at math.

Don’t make yourself sick worrying about your health!

Willow Creeker
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Willow Creeker
4 years ago
Reply to  Critter

All of your ‘research’ from watching tv doesn’t really mean anything guys. It’s just a case of the sniffles unless you are a fat unhealthy person or old, in which case you will probably die soon anyway. I think this world could use a little cleaning out of the sickly /unhealthy slobs that throw their Taco Bell wrappers out the window on their way to winco… that’s my 2 cents.

Student Debt Slave
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Student Debt Slave
4 years ago
Reply to  Chuck U

Yup, I expect “No health insurance, please go home and die” kind of response from our for-profit health system. The working poor will be the ones that suffer in this country whereas the rich will get their health care servicing. I’d much rather pay an extra $2,000 in taxes a year for universal healthcare than $15,000 a year for health insurance which doesn’t pay for anything except make stockholders rich; but we can’t have socialism for the people who must pick themselves up by their bootstraps while subsidizing the wealthy. It’s going to be a clusterfuck simple as that.

Buster
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Buster
4 years ago

Definitely something to be concerned about but the CDC says that over 10,000 people die from the “common” flu every year.

Who Cares
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Who Cares
4 years ago
Reply to  Buster

Yeah well…the common flue is established already, it’s already “matured” and spread globally.

We’ll see what the numbers are for this new virus in a few years, when it “grows up”, and has a high population, spread all over the globe. This new virus is still a baby, it’s barely even gotten started.

Plug your ears and WATCH what they DO.
Forget the talking heads on tv, making up deceptive stats to control the narrative. They always control the narrative. Remember the yellow cake and wmd that got us into Iraq after supposedly Saudi terrorist hit the twin towers…yeah let’s trust the narrative controllers on the TV.

Jaekelopterus
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Jaekelopterus
4 years ago
Reply to  Who Cares

This ain’t the first coronavirus either. Remember SARS?

Who cares
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Who cares
4 years ago
Reply to  Jaekelopterus

Yeah I do…the reaction we’re seeing to this, and the numbers of this…dwarf sars…and we’ve only just begun.

Keno
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Keno
4 years ago
Reply to  Who cares

H1N1, noravirus, etc. etc.
Chill out and stop getting upset.

Calm down
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Calm down
4 years ago

THE INFLUENZA THIS YEAR HAS KILLED MORE THAN THIS VIRUS.
CALM THE F*CK DOWN.
Many who have contacted this virus have recovered just fine.
Its like any disease, if you have a compromised immune system or are generally weakened the chances of dying go up. Its natural selection. People die.

Take some personal responsibility and clean your phone screen, your hands, etc. If you feel sick stay home.
Dont eat fast food or junk food. Build up your immune system and your gut flora. If all you consume is crap then your chances of illness in general go up dramatically so you have no place to complain about others, its your own doing.
Take elderberry syrup and other anti-virals.

Most of all dont be a fear mongerer!!!! Out of 80,000 cases only a few hundred have died so its not gonna just up and kill ya.

Johnny Eureka
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Johnny Eureka
4 years ago
Reply to  Calm down

Spoken like a true lib with absolute faith in science ( which has blinded you).
Only an idiot would go to China at this time and come back to expose the community. They should have been quarantined at SFO ( or wherever). Big time Bernie socialists go to totalitarian regimes, no sane American does. Sane Americans who care about this country spend their money HERE. Liberal plague dogs is what they are

Yeah,sure
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Yeah,sure
4 years ago
Reply to  Johnny Eureka

Thanks for the Righty talking points. I knew I could count on you.

Jaekelopterus
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Jaekelopterus
4 years ago
Reply to  Johnny Eureka

Isn’t it funny how the venn-diagram of rightwingers and panic-mongers is just a circle?

Social Liberal Gun Owner
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Social Liberal Gun Owner
4 years ago
Reply to  Johnny Eureka

Man you were just went full retard. Ok Boomer. Obviously you’re unaware of global free trade in that the majority of the cheap shit you buy at Walmart is made in China. Blame yourself Boomer you wanted cheap stuff without paying Americans a living wage so a bunch of rich corporate people could get more wealthy. The only reason you supported it is because you believe that you had the chance to be rich too which was a fallacy. Remember trickle down Reaganomics? You are at fault Boomer go play the blame game on socialists somewhere else.

Who Cares
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Who Cares
4 years ago

American made cannot compete with communist slave made goods. Period.

It should be law that all goods sold in USA, pay a minimum wage, protect workers, and protect the environment.

What’s the point in having moral laws like OSHA, EPA, and minimum wage if we allow factory’s to move to immoral communist slave labor countries like China?

Americans believe workers deserve rights. Globalization is the problem. We should only trade with other countries that respect their workers.

LevelheadedGenXer
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LevelheadedGenXer
4 years ago
Reply to  Calm down

What are you talking about? Over 2000 died officially, and that’s not counting all the numbers China and other countries that do not have free information sharing like we do are hiding. If your going to put put info, put out correct info.

Concerned
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Concerned
4 years ago

If there is a case in Humboldt County
this person should be quarantined for 14 days in a clinical setting or hospital. Why is this case not being reported on the cdc and John’s Hopkins coronavirus website
How many other cases are in the United States and are not known or being reported? THIS NEW INFORMATION IS ALARMING. IF we are not being told who they are and where they have been people don’t know if they have been in contact with this person.

Concerned
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Concerned
4 years ago

It’s not a few hundred that have died. Its 2500 that have died so far

HotCoffee
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HotCoffee
4 years ago

The information blackout is disgusting.

Supposedly anyone coming from China is being quarantined at air force bases so just how does it get to Humboldt?

What stops were made along the way. We are not told because it could harm the businesses the patient stopped at. Not many people go to Humboldt without going through Mendocino and Sonoma first.

Some privacy is due the person with the virus but MUCH more information is due the public.
Why are so many with the virus being brought to California which has the most cases in the country.

Anyone heard anything from Gavin or Huffman? Who is monitoring this? Do you trust the WHO? The CDC? The FDA? They can’t even keep e coli out of our lettuce!

Also I have respiratory allergies and spring is coming so not every one coughing has a virus but it will soon sound like it as many folks have allergies to pollen… and many people regularly take aspirin or Tylenol for simple reasons like heart conditions or arthritis and won’t even have a temperature thanks to a routine of taking temperature lowering meds.

Sorry for the rant but anyone could see this coming…as for Calm downs response I’m glad you can afford elderberry syrup health food and to sacrifice the weakest among us..remember that if it’s someone you love that dies, there are many homeless and addicts among the population that won’t be wiping their computer screens. Lets hope they don’t catch it.

Wonder
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Wonder
4 years ago

Ummm, is this the place where we thank President Trump for stopping China flights sooner than any other country?

Wu tang Clan
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Wu tang Clan
4 years ago

Wuhan clan ain’t nutting to fuck with!

crimestopper2
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crimestopper2
4 years ago

The Humboldt DHHS is the last agency I would want in charge of this Coronavirus entrance into our county. They can’t even control the AIDS and syphilis and drug addiction here locally!! Incompetent staff to not be trusted.
To have the DHHS say the “infected” will self quarantine is -UCKING insane and unacceptable!! Get your act together and immediately isolate these “current” 2 people at a hospital (out of area maybe)capable of high risk isolation. If not, you the new woman director of our DHHS facility, the escape and increase of coronavirus patients will be on your pathetic shoulders. START DOING YOUR JOB AND STOP BS-ING US!
How did these infectious people travel? They had to have flown.Did they fly into Arcata Airport? What flight? Which other prior airports did they use? If so, where’s the followup on all the flight(s) exposed passengers oblivious to their exposure?

What hotels/motels were used? Did they shop at Winco or Grocery Outlets where lots of people shop?
Get mad everyone -this is the same Wuhan downplay info crap as used in China. See where it got them?
China has lost hundreds of thousands (if not millions) from the Coronavirus epidemic. Their crematoriums are going 24/7 and capable of 1200 corpses per day, and just today 40 new portable crematoriums are starting up in Wuhan as well and are capable of destroying
1900 bodies per day. If the death toll was only 2000, then 2 days max would have been necessary for disposal of the 2000. NOT THE TRUE CASE AND CHINA IS LYING ABOUT THE DEATH TOTAL. The crematoriums have been going non stop since this disease spiked 4 weeks ago.
ARE WE WOLVES OR ARE WE SHEEP? I’ll demand accountability, transparency, and an immediate handling and assessment of this dangerous virus scenario.

Concerned Business Owner and Resident
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Concerned Business Owner and Resident
4 years ago
Reply to  crimestopper2

RIGHT ON!!!

DHHS
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DHHS
4 years ago
Reply to  crimestopper2

OMG you’re so right. Don’t move, sending a vehicle to pick you up. We need you on the team NOW.

DELLIB
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DELLIB
4 years ago
Reply to  DHHS

DHHS is nothing more than a criminal govermnent mafia looking for the next victim to extort. I doubt they would have any help in a pandemic.

Eric Kirk
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Eric Kirk
4 years ago
Reply to  crimestopper2

Don’t leave your house!

Joke of dept health
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Joke of dept health
3 years ago
Reply to  crimestopper2

I was reading these comments from 10 months ago..I do agree about the Humboldt dept of health. The huge budget goes to salaries and administration. The north coast aids project has a huge budget and it all goes to salaries and their mobile van. The van has not operated this whole pandemic. They don’t call the people “clients” with hiv to see if they are ok or need anything. Now with covid, my friend said got one, 1, one mask from them in the mail and it was loose. Not even in a plastic bag.
Joke. I looked up the county budget and true. Its a joke. Friend asked where the money goes after seeing the budget, yep. Salary and a little help for rent utilities for clients with an emergency. No wipes, hand sanitizer or masks given during these times of pandemic. No support group. Nothing.

Bullshit
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Bullshit
4 years ago

I call bullshit on 2%.
How long does it take to kill you from confirmation? Go back on the graph that far and compare death rate to confirmed cases at that point.
Two weeks =2118 of about 25000= over 8%.
Three weeks=2118 out of about 9000= about 23%
People aren’t dying on the day they are confirmed.
2118 out of 75000, today.
That would be about 2.8 %if they died that day.
I don’t think that is what’s happening.
Why is this what is being represented?

Kelley Lincoln
4 years ago
Reply to  Bullshit

https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/situation-reports/20200219-sitrep-30-covid-19.pdf

This is a good link to help people understand how the World Health Organization calculates the fatality rate of the illness.
This is the methods paragraph at that link, “The confirmed case fatality ratio, or CFR, is the total number of deaths divided by the total number of confirmed cases at one point in time. Within China, the confirmed CFR, as reported by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention,9 is 2.3%. This is based on 1023 deaths amongst 44 415 laboratory-confirmed cases as of 11 February. This CFR does not include the number of more mild infections that may be missed from current surveillance, which has largely focused on patients with pneumonia requiring hospitalization; nor does it account for the fact that recently confirmed cases may yet develop severe disease, and some may die. As the outbreak continues, the confirmed CFR may change. Outside of China, CFR estimates among confirmed cases reported is lower than reported from within China. However, it is too early to draw conclusions as to whether there are real differences in the CFR inside and outside of China, as final outcome data (that is, who will recover and who will die) for the majority of cases reported from outside China are not yet known.”
The page includes a great table, by city, of how many cases there are and how many have died.

Scary times
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Scary times
4 years ago
Reply to  Kelley Lincoln

Death toll is over 2000 and number of cases is at almost 80,000 as of 2/20/2020. That’s a big jump from just a week ago. That’s the scary stat in my opinion. Cases and death toll doubled in a week?

SARS-cov-2
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SARS-cov-2
4 years ago

A pandemic was unfortunately predicted by infectious disease specialists weeks ago. The Chinese actually convinced The WHO to rename SARS-cov-2 virus to covid-19 the disease caused by the virus .make no mistake SARS Is back but way more transmissible and time will tell if more virulent.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30419-0/fulltext?rss=yes

“2019-nCoV is still evolving, and it is too early to predict the outcome of the current outbreak. Some experts predicted that 2019-nCoV could evolve to a low pathogenic but highly transmissible coronavirus, which might return every winter, like the virus that causes seasonal influenza.6 If this is the case, the name SARS-CoV-2 might have adverse effects on the social stability and economic development in countries where the virus is causing an epidemic, perhaps even around the world. People develop panic at the thought of a re-occurrence of SARS. Travellers and investors might not want to visit a country with an ongoing epidemic or even sporadic cases of SARS. People may also believe that, like SARS-CoV, 2019-nCoV will not re-emerge once the current outbreak ends; therefore, they might not be prepared to prevent 2019-nCoV infection in the near future and could lose a sense of alert.”

http://www.montana.edu/health/coronavirus_2019-ncov.html

Razzmoist
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4 years ago

This person was allowed to roam free until now?? UNBELIEVABLE!
They were just in China. This dumb fuck should have been quarantined already. Stupidity is so predictable.

Just Asking
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Just Asking
4 years ago

This is truly alarming on many levels. Can the county cope with this? Is the state helping come up with a plan to raise awareness and deal with an outbreak?

hmmm
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hmmm
4 years ago

Because of our over the top expensive and broken health care system so many people that think they may be infected aren’t likely to visit a hospital or clinic and will go on to infect others. There should be free testing available.

No stopping it now folks.

Get Up-Stand Up For your Rights
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Get Up-Stand Up For your Rights
4 years ago

Here it is! Let’s us be proactive!! I am asking ALL concerned Humboldt Residents call the Humboldt County Department of Health and Human Services in Eureka ASAP 707-445-6200 and Demand there is a Full Public disclosure posted clearly informing our community where this person/ patient shopped for food, if any restaurants were visited, theaters, bars, movies ect.. we have the Right to know if any people may have been exposed over that last 2 weeks prior to diagnosis! This patient has the Right to Privacy., but We have the Right to know if we or our loved ones have potentially been exposed! Let us kindly encourage our Public health office and officials to Advocate for All of our Health through full disclosure! And please stay home if you don’t feel well!! Keep washing your hands!!!

bull
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bull
4 years ago

If they managed to find 2 people in Humboldt that have it then you can be sure there’s more. Unless a federal dept has screening in place at the airport. Even then…

Humboldt is one of the few counties that never “has” anything- western nile, sars etc etc. It’s just that they don’t report or check for anything “out of the ordinary”.

and there’s a flu going around right now.

Crap. I need to go to Winco and Gross-Out.

bull
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bull
4 years ago

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Coronavirus-live-updates-Death-toll-exceeds-1-000-15045880.php

Michael Cabanatuan , Erin Allday and Anna Bauman Feb. 18, 2020 Updated: Feb. 18, 2020 5:46 p.m.

9:20 a.m.: San Franciscans with flu symptoms to be tested for coronavirus: San Francisco is one of five U.S. cities in which people reporting flu symptoms to their doctors will be tested not only for influenza but for the disease caused by the new coronavirus, COVID-19. Alex Azar, secretary of Health and Human Services, announced the testing program in a Congressional hearing Thursday. In addition to San Francisco, tests will also be given to people reporting flu-like symptoms in Seattle, New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. Previously only people with the respiratory problems and high fever were tested if they had recently traveled to or from China or been in close proximity to someone with the coronavirus.

The Real Brian
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The Real Brian
4 years ago

I see a lot of new name commentors, why should I not suspect something amiss when hot-topic issues arise and all these new names drop a bunch of bullshit on us?

Rod Gass
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Rod Gass
4 years ago
Reply to  The Real Brian

Yeah, I noticed the same thing. Bullshit 101

At my age, the flu has had at least 50 opportunities to have at me. Even just this season I had some flu that had it’s way for about 2 weeks. It does get bad.

I’m hoping ALL the commenters on this site who are fearmongering people into a mild panic, go climb a tree. A really old Doug Fir 200 feet tall. Stay up there until you can see the ALL clear.

Keno
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Keno
4 years ago
Reply to  The Real Brian

Yep, most likely one or two people bombarding the comment section.

It gets lonely up in them there hills.
Them darn off-grid hermits who never get out and socialize on a healthy level have a lot to say now that they have their smarty-phones.

Just get turn off your phone, come off the hill and mingle with some folks in town. Interact and discuss and a human setting, you might learn something and start to feel better.

But this paranoia is the best excuse to continue to be a hermit.

Who cares
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Who cares
4 years ago
Reply to  Keno

Paranoia?!
It’s reasonable and warranted concern.
The Chinese have darn near shut down their country. That’s a real good reason to pay attention.

But sure, go ahead and be a self appointed guardian of the status quo if you want to. Cuzz the narrative controllers on the TV never lie do they…

SAG of the SQ, formerly known as Keno.
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SAG of the SQ, formerly known as Keno.
4 years ago
Reply to  Who cares

“SAG of the SQ”, thanks for giving me my new Alias, I love it!

DOC
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DOC
4 years ago

ANDROGRAPHIS ANDROGRAPHIS ANDROGRAPHIS IMMUNE SUPPORT MADE FROM A PLANT

MendoCan
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MendoCan
4 years ago

Only in Humboldt would these people be sent home to “self quarantine”. But not to worry, on the way home they went to a health food store to buy some St. John’s Wort and stopped at a healing chant drum circle…problem solved! Oh yeah, and they also helped package 100 lbs. of fresh OG headed for Ohio.

*sarcasm folks, just to be clear*

Who Cares
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Who Cares
4 years ago

Watch what they DO, not what they SAY.

China has lost Billions (Trillions?) Trying to contain this. Governments don’t shut down a country and lose billions, risking economic collapse and civil unrest for a common flue.

The only logical conclusion is: 1) This virus is serious and has the potential to do massive damage to the population. Or

2) They want you to believe that this is much worse than it is.

Forget what they say. Watch what they DO.

rollin
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rollin
4 years ago

“the ill individuals are doing well and self-isolating at home”

That’s comforting.

HotCoffee
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HotCoffee
4 years ago
Reply to  rollin

I wonder how many people have 2 weeks of groceries at home and will just sit there when they run out?

Whats your guess?

Chuck U
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Chuck U
4 years ago
Reply to  HotCoffee

The gov has told people for years to have at least 2 weeks of supplies on the ready for pandemic, and remember the critters

https://www.ready.gov/pandemic

Allan Barr
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Allan Barr
4 years ago

This is a pandemic, it will go worldwide, we can only slow its spread not stop it, think the last worldwide pandemic and look it up, 2018 flu which took out 50 to 100 million people. This likely to take out at most 160 million, just two years current human population increase. If you in the critical affected groups, 55 or older or with current health issues like lung damage, diabetes, high blood pressure etc then its clear the death rates going to be far higher than 2.3% for the general population, more like 10% plus but remember, those still good odds. Reports from areas affected show a run on toilet paper, rice, canned and dry goods plus the obvious, face masks and disinfectants. What is not often mentioned is the vital necessity of protective eyewear, something that would be a good idea to use for the common cold or flu, appears our wonderful medical workers never did get that eyewear connection to virus propagation. O yeah, majority, around 80% have few if any symptoms its just the unlucky 20% who get serious permanent lung damage and some significant proportion of those need intensive care or they will die. So play the odds, no reason to panic but certainly a reason to stock up on some stuff.

Lady
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Lady
4 years ago

Too bad the infected dont turn into zombies.. oh wait, that’s the plot to a lame movie and many zombies can be found in the homeless camps scattered throughout HumCo

Jaekelopterus
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Jaekelopterus
4 years ago
Reply to  Lady

Poverty is evil, poor people are monsters.

Burnt Roach (new handle)
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Burnt Roach (new handle)
4 years ago

While this virus is very serious, and has the potential to become even much worse, it is important to keep things in perspective. It’s true that the more common flu viruses kill thousands of people every year. It’s also true that many more people get the flu every year than has gotten this coronavirus. The open question here is how far will this new virus go? How many people will it eventually affect? What can be done to aid in keeping yourself safe? The stress on individuals is just going to get higher, especially with the lack of facts, and the large number of trolls and uninformed people commenting. What can you do?

1. Wash your hands frequently; don’t touch your face, especially in public.
2. Keep hand sanitiser wipes with you and use it when in public.
3. Be wary of touching door knobs, toilet handles, fuel pump handles, stairway handrails; basically anything anyone else could have touched. Use a paper towel or sanitiser wipe as a barrier to your skin if you’re not wearing gloves.
4. Wear gloves and a proper mask (N95 or better respirator) in public if it continues to get worse.
5. Pump up your immune system with supplements, eating healthy, and getting rest. It is very important to get the necessary sleep to allow your body to rest. A daily u-tube video update by MedCram.com has stated that going to sleep by 10:00 pm is important to your bodies’ ability to keep up with immune system response, as the body works while sleeping between 10:00 pm and 1:00 am to produce cells for immune system response.

While the authorities controlling the flow of information may or may not be giving us the full story it is important to remember to keep your head and not panic. Stocking up or taking precautions is not panicking, but telling everyone you know or can reach on social media unverified statements can be more damaging than just keeping quiet. Try to get secondary confirmation, when possible. Keep in mind that even though the numbers are almost certainly low coming out of China there are enough cases in other countries that will allow a better assessment of this virus as time and more cases happen.

It seems likely that this virus will run its course, taking out a large number of people in its wake. It could very well take a long time, like over a year, and not disappear in April like one government official said recently. The link below seems legit. The one mentioned above puts out a daily u-tube video that gives good information, but the web site isn’t as good.

Side bar; heard directly from a friend who told me a friend of his, a nurse in Eureka, e-mailed him before this article came out about the case of coronavirus in Humboldt County. If this is true, and I believe it is, it does indicate health authorities may be withholding information (not good).

https://covid19info.live

HotCoffee
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HotCoffee
4 years ago

Great advice

No one should panic.
No one should pretend it’s nothing, we need to get to the truth, and that’s something that’s hard to come by these days.
Prepare just in case !

IF you are told to stay home for 2 weeks you should already be prepared to do so
not go on a shopping run first.

Call your doctor before going in don’t just show up and expose everyone else.

Links to articles are helpful, but read them with discernment.

SmallFry
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SmallFry
4 years ago

This Corrona virus is scary as hell. Honestly to downplay it and not take it seriously is a mistake. I am seriously going to bulk up on Anti Virals, like Elderberry, and Colloidal Silver. I refuse to live in absolute fear, but I do live in precautionary mind frames. I think this story about this movie director and many members of his family dying from Corrona kinda shook me. China just kicked out a bunch of US reporters. Do you really think China would be honest about the intensity of this epidemic? I doubt it…

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/18/coronavirus-kills-chinese-film-director-family-wuhan-covid-19

crimestopper2
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crimestopper2
4 years ago

Self quarantine isn’t acceptable! Now the entire home(?) is infected and will have to be internally gutted and destroyed. This extremely viral virus isn’t a little puppy dog to play with, but a death sentence waiting for naïve victims. Is the DHHS crew showing up in full blown hazmat suits or wearing street clothes with a gauze mask?
Keep watching everyone in your neighborhood. If we look for these idiots to show up in their WHITE van, we’ll find the location.
Quarantines done in China for 14 days were a farce. Many medical experts were suggesting 30 days length , but their suggestion never gained support. So let’s ask right now-HOW LONG ARE YOU IDIOTS GOING TO SELF QUARANTINE THIS COUPLE??????????
You’ll very likely choose the 14 day to not inconvenience the couple too much. WRONG-YOU LOSE AND ALL OF US IN HUMBOLDT LOSE!!!!
Do you notice the lack of info provided by the media? Where’s actual CDC presence to address this “outbreak”? Silence is not our friend and it means this situation is -ucked and the local incompetent medical representatives have no idea what to do correctly.
Is Franko personally coordinating this fiasco, or another incompetent lackie running with the ball?
Lots of questions and NO answers. Boy do I feel safe!!

Poor Farmer
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Poor Farmer
4 years ago

Collodial silver is suppose to be very effective against both viruses and bacteria. I have a machine that breaks down the 99:99 % pure silver into a size of .0008 mg which means it gets into every cell in your body. I have used it many times before and it seems to work great. I also have super silver wound dressing gel that works great on wounds and skin infections. This could be used for hand washing etc. What would happen if this contagion where to get into Humboldt Hilton where there is stall air and no place to run, no place to hide.

Bug on a Windshield
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Bug on a Windshield
4 years ago
Reply to  Poor Farmer

Possibly the same thing that happened on the cruise ship.

Jaekelopterus
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Jaekelopterus
4 years ago
Reply to  Poor Farmer

This is quackery. Might turn your skin and poop blue, though.

Pit Tuch
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Pit Tuch
3 years ago
Reply to  Poor Farmer

I agree 100% colloidal silver produced in a correct way can beat any virus.Last time we was all infected in the house with an flu virus.Was it corona,we will never know because all pepole in the house was not admit to the hospital.All of us except my kid 11 years old had light fever between 37+c and 38+c,our maid 21 years old was only 1 day sick,my wife 48 years old had an heavy cough (only for 1 day,she was nebulize colloidal silver) and was 4 days sick and me 64 years old was 1 week sick with heavy cough but I consume every day also before corona little amounts of colloidal silver.All of us was recover from the “coronavirus?” fast.I strongly can recomment colloidal silver but it is sadly hidden by the FDA and pharma industry as treatment

izzy lacoste
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izzy lacoste
4 years ago

Very difficult to sort out the real story on all this. The economic impact alone will be substantial. Some research has at least tentatively suggested Asian males seem to be disproportionally affected for genetic reasons, but virtually no news reports ever discuss the ethnic component. Pertinent information, one would think.

HotCoffee
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HotCoffee
4 years ago
Reply to  izzy lacoste

The price of masks have gone way up @ amazon and are becoming hard to get. Most sold now are from 3rd parties.

I didn’t check the army navy surplus stores.

If you talk about ethnic groups people lose their minds. Better to shut up and die than listen to the left start screaming racist.

I almost remember when people could just talk to each other and enjoy it.

Dave Kirby
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Dave Kirby
4 years ago

Colloidal Silver has no medical effect when taken orally. The body does not use silver in any process. It can, if used over a long period turn skin and some tissue blue grey which is irreversible. Having said that it may have beneficial effects when applied in a wound dressing as a barrier to infection. It has no proven effect on viruses and is not recommended to be taken internally.

Poor Farmer
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Poor Farmer
4 years ago

You are very wrong DK: The body can absorb silver if the microns are small enough to get into the cells of your body. Silver is a very effective treatment against viruses and bacteria

Dave Kirby
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Dave Kirby
4 years ago
Reply to  Poor Farmer

I suggest you Google it poor farmer. There is no proof to back up your assertions. In fact the FDA sued a number of purveyors of this snake oil to force them to stop making false claims about its health effects.

Keahi
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Keahi
4 years ago

FYI – Excellent videos coming out of the UK, by this doctor and nursing school teacher. Answered a lot of my
questions. Lots of long pauses but stay with it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDhKMZrAbPE

Pit Tuch
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Pit Tuch
3 years ago

Colloidal silver produced in a correct way can beat any virus.A while ago we was all infected in the house with an flu virus.Was it corona,we will never know because all pepole in the house was not admit to the hospital.All of us except my kid 11 years old had light fever between 37+c and 38+c,our maid 21 years old was only 1 day sick,my wife 48 years old had an heavy cough (only for 1 day,she was nebulize colloidal silver) and was 4 days sick and me 64 years old was 1 week sick with heavy cough but I consume every day also before corona little amounts of colloidal silver.All of us was recover from the “coronavirus?” fast.I strongly can recomment colloidal silver but it is sadly hidden by the FDA and pharma industry as treatment