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Haggis for Breakfast

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12. No country in the world is prepared for a pandemic.

Reply to Rural_Progressive (Reply #2)

Wed Jan 29, 2020, 11:13 PM

Jan 2020

Certainly not China or even the US. WHO needs to get the facts and get them fast. It is obvious that containment is not going to keep this thing in China for much longer. (Yes, I know that there are cases elsewhere.) For those patients in other nations, they need to be quarantined in negative-flow rooms and worked up fast.

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Coronavirus: China accused of 'burning bodies in secret' [View all] Coventina Jan 2020 OP

Not to make light of this as it is a terrible thing if this is happening but padah513 Jan 2020 #1

Its not even close to the virus in that novel as the novels virus killed most of the people cstanleytech Jan 2020 #3

Patience my dear, patience. NotHardly Jan 2020 #4

oh jesus, that made me laugh... dhill926 Jan 2020 #5

The problem with preventing a pandemic Rural_Progressive Jan 2020 #2

No country in the world is prepared for a pandemic. Haggis for Breakfast Jan 2020 #12

Scary. I found this article from the Telegraph. 58Sunliner Jan 2020 #6

By this weekend Liberalhammer Jan 2020 #7

This isn't the first I've read of such reports. herding cats Jan 2020 #8

Post removed Post removed Jan 2020 #9

Fuck, they're not even counting the bodies cremated at the morgue. This is bad. nt SunSeeker Jan 2020 #10

Sounds a lot like the mass graves from the 1918-1920 flu pandemic. roamer65 Jan 2020 #11

This particular Coronavirus hasn't been around very long. patphil Jan 2020 #13

Can't trust anything the Chinese government says Devil Child Jan 2020 #14