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Laurie Garrett reporter who has worked in over 30 epidemic zones, including SARS in China and Ebola in West Africa, just how big a threat is the current coronavirus outbreak?
The most objective discussion on the current scare COVID-19 - video is 1 hour 12 minutes.

iThink 9 Feb 15
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PM Lee urges Singapore to take courage amid coronavirus outbreak

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[healthline.com]

What do R0 values mean?
Three possibilities exist for the potential spread or decline of a disease, depending on its R0 value:
If R0 is less than 1, each existing infection causes less than one new infection. In this case, the disease will decline and eventually die out.
If R0 equals 1, each existing infection causes one new infection. The disease will stay alive and stable, but there won’t be an outbreak or an epidemic.
If R0 is more than 1, each existing infection causes more than one new infection. The disease will spread between people, and there may be an outbreak or epidemic.
Importantly, a disease’s R0 value only applies when everyone in a population is completely vulnerable to the disease. This means:
no one has been vaccinated
no one has had the disease before
there’s no way to control the spread of the disease

Laurie Garrett talked about that in the video I posted. But it's good idea to pull that info out and draw attention to it. RO value is critically important but only if the value of Rx can be determined before it becomes too late.
My personal belief is that a rigid policy of quarantine is the only way to stem the spread of communicable diseases that have demonstrated high potential for pandemic spread.
the COVID-19 has not yet hit USA or the "West" in general like it has in China. But it's just smart to have policies in place that will stave off the spread before it ever gets to full momentum.
I think it's also wise to talk about - or at least to think about panic. Panic in the general population can cause as much death as the disease itself.
Would like to see some of your thoughts on that aspect of this biological threat.

@iThink

The original interview was well worth viewing despite, in my opinion, the obvious statist (globalist) slant. What I found most troubling is the claims concerning investments toward vaccines or inoculations (I am not sure which word applies) that actually work to replace or enhance the natural human power to fight the disease internally. There are none, apparently.

Another thing is something the ought to be understood is a process that functions like a bounty as in funding a prize to someone who catches or kills a wanted criminal. If there is a power at work that can cause a cure to be scarce, and this power could be measured in the billions or trillions of dollars (or some other measure of the power to purchase), then that bounty can drive the willful creation of something that will then require that cure.

If instead cures, once known, travel the earth faster than the virus, free from those powers that make that cure scarce, then that bounty no longer exists, and along with the removal of that power to make cures scarce goes the demand for something to be cured. This is not an uncommon economic process, that is for example exemplified in the Central Bank Fraud willful creations of Booms and Busts, on a predictable cycle, something very profitable for so-called "insider" traders.

In a world without law (criminals run all the governments) there is a prize to anyone who can deceive people into believing certain lies that result in a massive transfer of power from the deceived to the deceivers.

If I wanted to make a lot of money on the stock price of a company that makes PPEs or Face Masks, what could I do?

[modernbeyond.com]

If there was a way to not only discover the truth of these matters but to then make those facts available to the Public at large, then the truth would no longer be scarce, and in that world where the truth was abundant, relatively cost-less, then I could have at my disposal much more useful data (messages) to share on this and other topics. I will say that the way to discover the truth of these matters is historically called the law, as in the law of the land, or the common law. Regular people are afforded all jurisdiction civil and criminal in grand and trial juries, to then use the law to discover the truth of these matters, and if there are causes to hold individual people to account for individual crimes, such as making cures scarce to jack up the price, or creating viruses to then create the demand for extremely high priced cures, then those individuals are offered their chance to explain the facts that matter in the case before the trial jury in a trial by the country. That has nothing to do with anyone in any government, other than having someone in a government there to advise the people concerning known errors or omissions that easily occur during a lawful trial.

@Josf-Kelley
The original interview was well worth viewing despite, in my opinion, the obvious statist (globalist) slant. What I found most troubling is the claims concerning investments toward vaccines or inoculations

exactly what I was thinking -typical leftist she obviously believes nothing innovative and good can happen without government funding

In a world, without law (criminals run all the governments) there is a prize to anyone who can deceive people into believing certain lies that result in a massive transfer of power from the deceived to the deceivers.

amen to this

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This is what telling the truth looks like . Some times its not easy . WOW this should be on tv . And let everyone see . What is coming . I just want to say thank you.

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Officials response to Coronavirus in UK is pathetic,

We have the most crowded railways and underground systems
We still allow in flights, tourists and passengers from China
And we're told to self isolate voluntarily if we have any symptoms!! Can't get any more British than this

the only other way to approach it is to have the authoritative policy of forced quarantine and to seal off all international traffic - Wuhan is inland - no maritime traffic there. The British Isles have land and air travel to be concerned about in addition to maritime traffic - and not just from tourist ships - commercial ships, commercial fishing vessels etc - all are pathways that can bring the disease to your country.

@iThink

Mate, you are talking sense, but common sense is a rare commodity these days!

@Lt-JW thanks

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Long one, bookmarked for later viewing.

yeah whenever I post a vid I like to let people know the length before they open the post. Give them a chance to decide up front how or what they choose to do

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