Emergence of a Deadly Coronavirus

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It’s considered about 3 on the “contagious scale.” One person would infect 3 other persons on this scale when no precautions are taken.

Measles is about a 10 on the same scale.

What boggles me is how the US has over 100,000 cases and Canada has only 7600 cases. You'd think that the Canadian Corona count would be higher than it is.

The chinese coverup of the coronavirus, (does anyone in the free world think they didn't do it?),
Has been a big mistake.

Some, presumably people in a better position to speculate, estimate that had the ccp been honest about the disease, 95% of the deaths could have been avoided.

Another aspect of concern is the potential economic "vulture-ism", by the ccp.
The concern is that the ccp, with its huge monetary reserves, will go on a scavaging spree and buy out distressed companies as a result of the economic damage they have created.

Here in Australia, there are new laws being implemented to prevent this from happening.
*All* takeovers(?), regardless of the financial amount, will now be scrutinised, and the process will be extended to a 6 month period.

It is suggested the official reason for this change is the occurrence of two large chinese property companies in Australia buying up and shipping to china strategic medical supplies such as masks and sanitisers.

Some, in the media, are pointing to this as a sign of the absolute control the ccp has over all chinese businesses.

Time to wake up, Australia,
And the world.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/30/us/flori ... index.html

https://www.actionnewsjax.com/news/tren ... Y5FP7FSAM/

It is a lot of fun to play with super magnets, rare earth magnets. They are extremely powerful. The following story comes from down under. DON'T TOUCH YOUR MOUTH, EYES OR NOSE invention!

An astrophysicist in Australia went to the hospital last week after getting magnets stuck up his nose while attempting to invent a device to stop people from touching their faces amid the global coronavirus pandemic, according to a report.

Dr. Daniel Reardon is a 27-year-old astrophysicist and research fellow at a Melbourne University who studies pulsars and gravitational waves. He and his partner were working to create a necklace that sounds an alarm when someone tries to touch their face. They began by wearing magnets on their wrists, but then Reardon tried putting magnets in his nose, The Guardian reported.

“It’s the same logic as clipping pegs to your ears – I clipped them to my earlobes and then clipped them to my nostril and things went downhill pretty quickly when I clipped the magnets to my other nostril.”

A magnet on each side of his septum attracted together, leaving both stuck inside his nose. Reardon said he Googled a solution, and after reading an article about an 11-year-old who also got magnets stuck in his nose, he tried using other magnets to pull them out. Those magnets also got stuck once he lost his grip.

“As I was pulling downwards to try and remove the magnets, they clipped on to each other and I lost my grip,” he said. “And those two magnets ended up in my left nostril while the other one was in my right. At this point, I ran out of magnets.”

Once out of magnets, Reardon tried using metal pliers to pull them out – but those too became magnetized. His research partner finally brought him to the hospital, where medical staff applied an anesthetic spray and manually removed the magnets from his nose.

“My partner took me to the hospital that she works in because she wanted all her colleagues to laugh at me,” he said. “The doctors thought it was quite funny, making comments like ‘This is an injury due to self-isolation and boredom.’”

Source: Australian astrophysicist sent to the hospital after coronavirus invention goes horribly wrong

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/29/worl ... china.html

I went to town today. The items in store shelves are starting to fill up again. I bought a megapack of paper towels and some bags of flour. They have been out for a couple weeks now. The meat aisles were beginning to fill up again. It seems like vitamins aisle were starting to become depleted.

Many store clerks apparently have been calling in sick. So when you pay for items, one has to wait a little longer.

I stopped by Jo Ann Fabrics to buy material to make more face mask. There were quite a few women searching for components to make face mask. No one has supplies of elastic cord. This is really hanging up volunteers from fabricating face mask. I ordered some for my wife but it is being shipped in from China. It is a real bottleneck. Many face mask designs use a thin strip of metal to conform the mask to the nose. I exchanged thoughts on workarounds. I bought a roll of aluminum tape which is normally used for metal ductwork joints. I thought that might be a workaround.

Anyways my wife and I wore our Silver Cloth Face Masks. They seemed to work well.