These are the people that make the decisions about what we are going to do as a country in response to the Coronavirus…
https://twitter.com/vestenotcer/status/1235358709846589447?s=19
Nurses Battling Coronavirus Beg for Protective Gear and Better Planning
Health care workers are among the most at risk of contracting the virus, but many say they lack protective gear and protocols to keep themselves and their patients safe.
Nurses in two states who are responding to the onslaught of novel coronavirus cases said in interviews this week that they lack protective equipment, training on how to use whatever equipment they have been given, and clear protocols to keep themselves and their patients safe.
Some nurses in the two states, Washington State and California, said they have been asked to watch online videos — rather than have in-person training — about how to spot the virus and how to put on and take off hazmat suits. Others said they have had to beg for N95 masks, which are thicker and block out much smaller particles than surgical masks do. And still others said they have faced ridicule when expressing concerns about catching the highly contagious virus.
“If nurses aren’t safe, then really our community isn’t safe,” said Jenny Managhebi, a clinical nurse at the University of California Davis Medical Center, where 24 nurses were asked to self-quarantine after a patient tested positive for the virus. “If I’m not safe at the bedside, when I come home to my husband and my children, then they’re not safe.”
WHO urges nations to pull “out all the stops” in coronavirus fight: “This is not a drill”
The World Health Organization urged governments around the world to pull out “all the stops” in the fight against the increasingly pervasive and deadly outbreak of the new coronavirus.
“This is not a drill. This is not the time for giving up. This is not a time of for excuses. This is a time for pulling out all the stops,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Thursday.
“Countries have been planning for scenarios like this for decades,” he said. “Now is the time to act on those plans.”
The U.N. health agency called on all nations to “push this virus back.”
Remember, the fact this shit can get into the brain itself, likely through the eyes/ears, means that any real “cure” will by nature HAVE to be toxic or radioactive aiming at wiping out the virus totally. Otherwise the infected are the walking dead waiting to drop, there is no treating the successive cytokine storms without destroying the immune system itself. It’s now or never to stop this from getting further then it already has, there is no age bracket favoring survival, once infected there is no cure only an inevitable death.
Not as a matter of scale. So far CoVid is much deadlier. If there is a major pandemic of the CV like with the Flu there will be tens of millions dead world wide.
2.9% mortality rate vs .001 Mortality rate.
Starbucks will no longer fill your personal cup because of the coronavirus
Starbucks customers may no longer use their own cups at the coffee chain, which cited concerns about the coronavirus outbreak in announcing the change in policy.
Although that could change, there’s no set date for when the personal cup opinion will return. Starbucks said it will continue to offer a 10 cent discount to people who bring in a cup or request “for here ware.”
In an open letter posted on the company’s blog, a Starbucks executive said the retailer is also taking other steps to halt the spread of the coronavirus. Those include sanitizing company-owned stores and restricting all business travel, both within the U.S. and abroad, until March 31. In addition, large meetings of Starbucks employees scheduled in the U.S. and Canada have been changed or postponed.
“As part of communities worldwide, we are navigating this situation with nimbleness, learning and adapting as new information is made available,” wrote Rossann Williams, president of U.S. company-operated business and Canada at Starbucks.
The announcement comes two months after Starbucks said it would temporarily close 2,000 restaurants across China — roughly half of its shops in the country — due to the outbreak centered in the city of Wuhan. Starbucks has more than 4,100 stores in 168 Chinese cities, making China the company’s second-largest market.
At least 11 people have died in the U.S. from the COVID-19 disease caused by the coronavirus. Globally, 93,000 cases have been confirmed, with 3,200 deaths.
Pentagon is ‘fully confident’ military can withstand threat of coronavirus: Esper
Defense Secretary Mark Esper said a coronavirus protection plan is being “finalized” for DoD employees and service members and will be presented to him next week.
Esper said he was “fully confident” the Pentagon would be able to perform its functions in the event coronavirus comes to the nation’s capital.
“We have a lot of capabilities in this building [the Pentagon],” Esper told reporters. “Our National Military Command Center has the capability to go for weeks at a time if they have to be locked down inside the building if we have some type of outbreak.”
Esper said he spent 90 minutes Thursday morning discussing coronavirus protection measures with senior leaders in the Pentagon, including military commanders from around the world.
“I was assured by them they feel confident that they have all the authorities that they need and we’re continuing to push more and more resources their way as they need them,” Esper said. “They are fairly in good shape at this point in time.”
The update came as news broke yesterday that one U.S. military member serving in South Korea and five dependents of various service members in that country had contracted the novel coronavirus. Esper said that U.S. Forces Korea Army Gen. Robert Abrams had developed a “good model” to stave off the virus where 28,500 U.S. troops are based.
Esper said Abrams had his soldiers do simple things like wipe down “doorknobs and copy machines and stuff like that to prevent the spread” as well as changing “social interaction.”
“We also have to look at travel,” Esper said. “Those will be coming up to me next week.”
Pentagon officials admitted yesterday there “probably will be some more cases” than the current six but said the numbers of infected individuals is “very small."
The Pentagon says they are following guidance from the Centers for Disease Control to test other service members for the virus, although it remains unclear how many tests are being administered.
The virus infects the elderly and those with compromised immune systems, and Pentagon health officials said they believe most of the U.S. military is not at risk.
“What we are trying to do is not scare people by saying everybody is at risk because that is not true,” one official said.
So far, worldwide there have been at least 95,270 confirmed coronavirus cases and 3,280 deaths. Iran has been particularly hard-hit, with at least 92 confirmed deaths from the virus and at least 23 members of Iranian parliament have contracted the disease. The U.S. has tens of thousands of troops stationed in neighboring Iraq, Afghanistan and Kuwait.
This mask stuff is hysterical.
- Stop buying masks
- Because we need them
- And we shipped all our production to China
- They don’t work anyway
- But we need them
You know what the funniest part about this is? The people saying this support free market capitalism. They oppose state run healthcare. I thought this is what you wanted?
The gov’t hasn’t seized them for it’s own use.
Most of the masks won’t filter out particles that small anyhow and unless you have an airtight seal around the edges you’re still breathing in whatever is floating around.
Gov. Gavin Newsom announced on Wednesday that a cruise ship returning to California from Hawaii that had suspected links to two coronavirus cases, one of them fatal, was being held off the coast of San Francisco, as public health officials prepared to screen everyone on the ship.
Eleven passengers and 10 crew members on the boat were showing symptoms on Wednesday, the governor said. “That number may significantly understate” the scope of infection, he said, or “it may indeed be abundance of caution.”
Governor Newsom said that about 2,500 people, more than half of them Californians, had been aboard the ship, identified by its owners as the Grand Princess, during a recent voyage from San Francisco to Mexico. One of those passengers died Wednesday in Placer County, Calif., the first U.S. coronavirus death outside Washington State and the 11th overall. Another passenger was being treated for the illness in Sonoma County. State and federal officials were racing to contact others who had been on board.
The person who died in Placer County had underlying health conditions and had been in isolation at a hospital after falling ill. Officials believe the patient was probably exposed to the virus on the San Francisco-to-Mexico leg of the voyage last month.
Interesting how this virus seems to only be fatal to those with underlying health conditions or the elderly.
Young and healthy seem to barely feel any symptoms and children/infants don’t seem to be affected as they are with the “generic” flu. 
BIG OOF in the markets today. Everything bloody.
S&P 500 ▼ 3.39%
Nasdaq ▼ 3.10%
Russell 2k ▼ 3.43%
Dow Jones ▼ 3.59%.
Man…do you ever shut the fuck up with your irrelevant takes and constant bullshit?
Neo-liberal analysis on every issue in your life:
Money graph go up mean situation more gooder.
AIPAC sent out an official notice that someone their conference attendees had been in contact with prior to attending the conference was quarantined for corona virus. 
It’s very strange. Does it mean they have a US origin?
Globalist work together and orchestrate all news.
