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    Dear Y'all,

    I'll just add that if you scroll back a few days to my previous post in this thread, I'm gonna say "I told you so" to anybody that said "oh the flu kills more people and this is alarmism and media hype."

    This thing hasn't had the chance to do it yet. And we shouldn't let it have that chance.

    Coronaviruses tend to be pretty cagey, and we don't even know what this mutation is capable of at this juncture, but precaution is never a bad thing.

    Wash your hands. Masks are for keeping it the virus in, not for self-protection. If you have healthy lungs, you're probably not even going to know you have it, but you're also a disease vector and you should be aware of it.

    Signed,

    Dude who legitimately might have it, needs to go take photos in the AM, but also has a has done his due diligence (a bit of science rubs off on you after working 6 years in medical publishing).

    Wash yo hands. Possibly a hilarious QBN Mug post in the morning.

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    • And I should just add that the medical community is not just worried that it is going to make bad headlines and have a big fatality count.garbage
    • There are concerns about latency periods, viral dormancy, etc. It will cool off in the next few months, but we're nowhere close to a vaccine..garbage
    • ..and if it's not stomped now, we will be dealing with round 2 in the fall.garbage
    • ffs with a 27 day incubation period it's probably everywhere already. we just don't know it yet.hans_glib
    • a bloke i know who lives(d) in northern italy has just brought his family back to blighty to escape it... and probably brought the virus with them.hans_glib
    • ^ spread the love man!! But yeah, maybe that's not so wise.Ianbolton
    • @hans You're kind of missing the point, and 27 days with a few asymptomatic weeks is kind of why this is a big deal.garbage
    • God didn't push a button on a timer and now it's 27 days or bust. This has been a major worry since December, and here we are now.garbage
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