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    ~*Official #COVID-19 Thread of Doom*~ Revenge of Omicron Prime

    in The Political Re-Education Camp

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    22 minutes ago, sblfilms said:

    https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/15/politics/us-intelligence-virus-started-chinese-lab/index.html

     

    I don’t even know what the global community’s response would be if it turned out the PRC cooked this up in a lab.

     

    I think US and European businesses might even have difficulty getting insurance policies to work with Chinese manufacturers if it turned out the government was so irresponsible. Could change the world economy.

     

     

    Obviously just one of many things being looked into, but the implications of it if true are staggering.

    Just some clarification on this lab, it was doing surveillance testing and research on coronavirus in wild animals and due to mishandling could of infected people and then mutated to allow for person to person infection.  The virus itself was never cooked up in a lab.  We do similar testing in wild animal populations for avian flu and swine flu.  This still doesn't absolve the lab if they were responsible due to improper handling, but this lab was not the type of facility that could specifically engineer the virus.  Here is an article about the lab in question which the US supports and was being asked to send more support by the US officials that were inspecting the facility in 2018.

     

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/14/state-department-cables-warned-safety-issues-wuhan-lab-studying-bat-coronaviruses/

    Oh fuck not this again!

    in The Political Re-Education Camp

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    From Discord

     

    Just wanted to add a bit of context to odhen's PBS article about HP bird flu in SC.  About a month ago low path avian influenza (LPAI) was detected in NC (by our lab).  It was determined that it was a strain from the wild migratory birds and our testing zones were established and flocks were culled.  Some of that testing zone was in SC due to how close some of the farms were to the border (mostly south of Charlotte).  That was when, due to the testing zones in SC that they detected it in the farms there.  Now by this time we are testing hundreds of samples a day to clear farms to ship their birds and the infected houses have been depopulated, we find out that the spread of the disease may have originated from the farms in SC which means that the infection has been undetected in their bird population for longer.  The reason the USDA wants to eradicate LPAI in the bird population is because it can turn into HPAI very easily.  So now it looks like due to the AI being in the SC bird population for the last month+ they now have a HPAI outbreak.  We got a sample in NC just the other day with high mortality at the farm and they were convinced that it was the HPAI strain from SC spread to NC just like the LPAI was.  But the sample tested negative and I'm hoping that NC stays that way.

    ~* Make America Great Depression Again -- Official Thread of Corona Virus infected markets *~

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    9 minutes ago, Dodger said:

     

    I understand he still has expenses. With 32 units, his risk pool is pretty diversified, and as far as I know, Houston is a big, growing area. But let's do a thought experiment. How much money would you have to expect to make per month/year to take on the risk of owning a 32 unit apartment complex? You sure as shit wouldn't do it for a grand or two a month right? What if it was your only source of income? You would need to make more money than the few grand a month a regular day job pays right? This guy probably makes more per year than all but a handful of people on this board. 

     

    Even with his expenses he should be at income level where he is able to put away some money every month. Forget the Coronavirus, wtf was this guy going to do if the building caught on fire? Sure he probably has insurance, but that check doesn't come the second you file a claim. Or any other kind of emergency. Remember, the 32 people renting from him no doubt have it harder financially than this guy, shouldn't he almost have an obligation to have some kind of emergency funds in case shit happens?

     

    This guy to me tests the basics of capitalism. When business is great and he's clearing 20 grand a month and leasing new BMW's under his LLC he gets to say hey I'm the business owner I assumed all the risk I get to enjoy the benefits of my profits. But the second that risk actually hits his front door, he's crying about it. 

     

    Where is Dodger and what have you done to him!

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    ~*Official #COVID-19 Thread of Doom*~ Revenge of Omicron Prime

    in The Political Re-Education Camp

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    Just had my co-worker give me a line of BS from whatever stuff he watches/reads.  Tried to tell me that New York is going down in infection/deaths, that looking at flu models this should be over soon, and that models that have this going on for months are not taking into account that infections probably started in December rather than Feb so they should be 2-3 months shorter.  Dude has a veterinarian license with a masters in epidemiology.  I told my other co-worker what he said to me and we spent about an hour railing on the fact that with a BS in Biology that we had more knowledge about the outbreak than he did.  Also they reminded me that our co-worker a few weeks ago said that the flu vaccine gave him the flu.

     

    :badass:

    ~*Official #COVID-19 Thread of Doom*~ Revenge of Omicron Prime

    in The Political Re-Education Camp

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    46 minutes ago, SFLUFAN said:

    Oh dear.

     

    Yeah it's been known for a while that the re-infection rate is rather high.

     

    Also going into work this weekend to deal with a bird flu outbreak in some turkeys, it's not high path, but USDA is concerned it could become that.  With good quarantine procedures and culling we should have this taken care of by Monday.  Also this was caught by routine surveillance testing.  Hey look at that preventative screenings work.

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