Re: 20 million now quarantined in China from Coronavirus
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Cynthia McKinney PhD
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Weekend Watching: I just watched the movie Virus (1980) thanks to @BrianSouter for recommending it and it was a GREAT way to spend 2.5 hours--a really great movie, given our current context. It has ALL of the elements that we're experiencing today.
2h 36m: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hefdxKmMxBw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hefdxKmMxBw
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A military-engineered virus, released during a plane crash, kills the entire human population. The only survivors are scientists in Antarctica, who desperately try to find a cure and save what is left of the planet from further destruction.
^ while I never saw "the Antarctica question" get much traction here @ GSUS (maybe in the flat earth thread?), I've frequently seen the question raised from various alt/truther types over recent years.
IMDB summary/synopsis of this film, which is AKA "Day of Resurrection"
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080768...ry_pl#synopsis
Storyline
A US military-engineered virus, released during a plane crash, kills almost the entire human population. The only survivors are scientists and military personnel in Antarctica, who desperately try to find a cure and save what is left of the human population from further destruction. Written by P. Straatsma
Plot Summary | Plot Synopsis
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The synopsis below may give away important plot points.
Synopsis
- A film that describes the development of a deadly Virus weapons system by the USA Military during the height of the Cold War epoch during the early 1980's. A small group of multinational scientists stuck in the Antarctic learn to survive after a human engineered virus knocks out most of earth's population.
- The film begins in East Germany where a scientist has been bribed by American agents to provide a sample of the deadly virus developed by the East German government for a reward of 50,000 pounds. Suddenly East German soldiers break into the clandestine meeting and shoot the German scientist but the CIA agents manage to escape in a plane. Unfortunately the plane crashes into the side of a mountain during a violent storm and the deadly virus, called CX114 which is contained in an air tight flask is released when the flask breaks against the side of the mountain.
- The Virus is highly potent and is spread atmospherically and soon the whole world is infected starting with Siberia, Tokyo, London, Rome and New York as the film shows staggering death tolls for each city.
- The action continues a few months later at an American Pathology Laboratory when Colonel Rankin of the US military asks one of the scientists that developed CX114 as to its properties. The scientist remarks to the Colonel that it is a terrifying doomsday weapon as its rate of reproduction the rate at which it multiples reaches astronomical proportions when above the tempertaure of about 5 degrees Celsius. The scientist accuses Colonel Rankin of making yet another Doomsday wepaon and screams, "How much is enough for you people! We already have enough nuclear weapons to turn the rubble into rubble!" Colonel Rankin storms out disgusted and has the scientist committed into a mental institution to prevent him from blowing the whistle to the US Senate Oversight Committee for Weapons Development and Research.
- The action shifts to the Oval Office where the President, [played by the late Glen Ford] and with a Senator [played by Robert Vaughn] are watching the cataclysmic events across the world as the Virus Spreads. It has been called the "Italian flu" by the media but it is really CX114. Suddenly General Garland bursts into the Oval Office. He is the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the head of the USA military. He demands that the President activate the ARS. An abbreviation for the 'Automatic Reaction System' of the US Strategic Nuclear Triad that will respond to any Soviet Nuclear threat against the West even if the entire hierarchy is dead. Remember that this film was made in 1980 and the Cold War was very much in full swing. The President says he will think about it while the senator, played by Robert Vaughn, says it is madness and there is no need as the crisis is a medical one and not a military threat. However, General Garland insists when Colonel Rankin walks in already showing the signs of the Virus infection. The film continues as the President eventually finds out what Colonel Rankin did to the scientist, who, when released from the mental asylum, tells the President the real story of how the Virus has spread.
- The movie then turns mostly to the Japanese scientists and shows how a few Americans and a UK Nuclear Submarine captained by the late Chuck Connors, make it to Antartica, where due to the cold tempertarues the Virus cannot multiply and reap its destruction. Only about 800 people in the entire world survive as General Rankin activates the ARS which is set off by an earthquake in the capital Washington and not any Soviet attack, thus blasting the entire world with Nuclear Armaggedon as the Soviets respond with their nukes, finishing off what is left of the population that managed to survive the Virus. Overall a good action post-apocalyptic film with fine performances from Glen Ford and Robert Vaughan as well as Olivia Hussey, Chuck Connors and George Kennedy.
Re: 20 million now quarantined in China from Coronavirus
Case fatality rate (CFR) for influenza = 0.1%, CFR for the Wuhan virus = ~3%*...that is THIRTY TIMES the CFR of the flu.
"It's just like the flu!"
Tell that to the folks in Italy, Spain, and elsewhere.
*it may even be 4% which would be forty times the CFR of the flu
Re: 20 million now quarantined in China from Coronavirus
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Jennifer Jacobs
@JenniferJJacobs
////BREAKING: U.S. Health and Human Services Department suffered a cyber-attack on its computer system Sunday night during the nation’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. The attack appears to have been intended to slow the agency’s systems down. Story w @shiramstein soon
5:38 AM · Mar 16, 2020
^ Whitney Webb remarks:
https://twitter.com/_whitneywebb/sta...38779871903744
Re: 20 million now quarantined in China from Coronavirus
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midnight rambler
Case fatality rate (CFR) for influenza = 0.1%, CFR for the Wuhan virus = ~3%*...that is THIRTY TIMES the CFR of the flu.
"It's just like the flu!"
Tell that to the folks in Italy, Spain, and elsewhere.
*it may even be 4% which would be forty times the CFR of the flu
That also sounds like they were injected with the flu... imagine a direct injection leads to more complications then topical exposure.
Or give rise to tougher more persistant strains.
Re: 20 million now quarantined in China from Coronavirus
New Jersey issues statewide curfew to combat coronavirus
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New Jersey is taking things one step further by prohibiting travel from 8 p.m. ET to 5 a.m. ET, with the exception of essential travel, Gov. Phil Murphy announced Monday.
This remains in effect for the foreseeable future, Gov. Murphy said.
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osoab
Listened to interviews with council member and mayor today.
Talk about some patronizing fuckheads. They don't have enough arms to keep up the back pats.
I'll post the podcast for a listen. You may need a stress ball handy.
here are the links to the interviews
https://www.news-gazette.com/podcast...f744a6ac4.html
https://www.news-gazette.com/podcast...79883b418.html
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osoab
So it isn't mandatory. But if he is like Illinois' dough boy guv,it will be mandatory in two days.
This fuckhead is a goldmanite too.
Gov. Murphy asks for statewide curfew in New Jersey amid coronavirus outbreak
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Gov.
Phil Murphy said Monday that New Jerseyans should not leave their homes between 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. to help stop the spread of
the coronavirus.
The only exceptions, according to the governor’s recommendation, would be emergency or essential travel.
While not an order under Murphy’s declaration of a state of emergency, the governor said he is “strongly discouraging non-essential travel.” The measure was announced during a joint conference call with New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont.
Re: 20 million now quarantined in China from Coronavirus
Pennsylvania coronavirus update: Gov. Wolf orders all nonessential businesses in the state to shut down: ‘I would like people to stay home 24 hours a day’
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Gov. Tom Wolf on Monday afternoon directed that a statewide voluntary shutdown of all non-essential businesses, including restaurants, bars, casinos, and child care centers, in his most drastic step yet to half the spread of coronavirus.
The shutdown directive goes into effect at midnight Tueday.
“I would like people to stay home 24 hours a day,” Wolf said, adding the desire is to “make sure people are not interacting with people.”
How long does it stay voluntary?
Re: 20 million now quarantined in China from Coronavirus
Childcare is not essential, can they roam the street unattended?
Re: 20 million now quarantined in China from Coronavirus
from the "blue checkmark" NSC last night, no promises looking forward though
https://twitter.com/WHNSC/status/1239398218292748292
NSC
@WHNSC
Text message rumors of a national
#quarantine are FAKE. There is no national lockdown.
8:48 PM · Mar 15, 2020
Corona joo virus health/prep advice from the grave; 6m 29s:
George Carlin and the New Crack Epidemic :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nsum0NI7JV4
