# Coronavirus COVID-19 (2019-nCoV) Thread - 2020 Breaking News **URL:** \ **Category:** The Quarantine Zone\ **Tags:** covid-quarantine\ **Created:** [February 11, 2020, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758 "2020-02-11T01:16:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 93
**Author:** ![AdityanathYogi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@AdityanathYogi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AdityanathYogi)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2020, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/1843 "2020-04-02T15:29:49Z")
If USA doesn’t come together this time forgetting their political differences ( republicans and democrats ) to take down China’s evil CCP, with Europe and India ( I am praying for that) supporting the US, it will be a pity… ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2020, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/1844 "2020-04-02T15:31:47Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > I found this disturbing: conflicting information about COVID-19’s transmissibility and infectious capability via the digestive system. > > On the AP: [Why health experts aren’t warning about coronavirus in food](https://apnews.com/2a70719849f6643e4f721dca11148b96) It always makes me nervous when people say “stomach acid will kill it!” Because I, like many people, take proton-pump inhibitors (Prilosec / Omeprazole) to treat chronic gastrointestinal issues. (And if you’re thinking you’re not supposed to take it long term - I fall under the “unless directed by a doctor” clause.) ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2020, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/1845 "2020-04-02T15:34:47Z")
Why yes, [Amazon does have bodybags.](https://www.amazon.com/Heavy-Duty-Body-Bags-Adult/dp/B012U8SIOY/ref=sr_1_11?dchild=1&keywords=Bodybag&qid=1585841303&sr=8-11) About $70. ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2020, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/1846 "2020-04-02T15:38:03Z")
> [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](#): > > Why yes, [Amazon does have bodybags.](https://www.amazon.com/Heavy-Duty-Body-Bags-Adult/dp/B012U8SIOY/ref=sr_1_11?dchild=1&keywords=Bodybag&qid=1585841303&sr=8-11) About $70. “Only 2 left in stock - order soon.” ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2020, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/1847 "2020-04-02T15:57:56Z")
> [@AdityanathYogi](#): > > If USA doesn’t come together this time forgetting their political differences ( republicans and democrats ) to take down China’s evil CCP, with Europe and India ( I am praying for that) supporting the US, it will be a pity… Yes, historically, the bestest way to get the world out of a world wide depression is, of course, a world war. :rolleyes: CMC fnord! ---
**Author:** ![AdityanathYogi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@AdityanathYogi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AdityanathYogi)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2020, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/1848 "2020-04-02T16:49:49Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > Yes, historically, the bestest way to get the world out of a world wide depression is, of course, a world war. :rolleyes: > > CMC fnord! 1. Not an armed conflict. 2. Not now, once the world gets out of coronavirus troubles. The fact is 1. China covered up this disease, number of dead people, the whistleblowers etc. 2. Sent their people to other countries knowing fully well that they will be the carriers of this virus What the world needs to do 3. Keep aside political differences (Republican vs democrat) 4. Build consensus internationally against CCP, expose their lies.. make them accountable for the loss of lives and for the economic damage ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2020, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/1849 "2020-04-02T16:57:54Z")
> [@DSeid](#): > > Another hypothesis - size of the n. > > Higher risk individuals, understanding themselves to be at high risk, are more commonly more compliant with social distancing as best they can. They are less likely to be in the “essential” workforce delivering food, packages, at the check out lines … Younger individuals? More often among the non-compliant and among those out there because they have one of those “essential” jobs. The number of infections are NOT likely to be evenly distributed by age cohort at this point but heavily overweighted to the younger who feel more invincible. (Making it up) 10% as likely to get very sick but ten times more likely to get infected by virtue of behaviors would mean same numbers per population size of the group. 13% of NYC is 65 plus. 44% is 19 to 50. I’d suspect the number infected among the 19 to 50 crowd is many more times that of the number of 65 plus individuals with infections. > > Another something we’ll only know after seroprevalence studies are done. I considered that but am skeptical given the description of the speed of the attack. Granted, the media isn’t great at balance and likes to take the most dramatic example as a case study, but my expectation would be that it would take a younger person significantly longer to become gravely ill than an elderly person or a person with respiratory issues. Most likely, they wouldn’t ever become gravely ill, they would just feel real real bad. To have any significant numbers coming in or have any significant number going full through to being put on a respirator seems unlikely without there being an underlying respiratory issue. And there’s no reason to think that young men in other countries are somehow all that much smarter than American. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2020, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/1850 "2020-04-02T16:59:01Z")
> [@scr4](#): > > “Only 2 left in stock - order soon.” If you search for toilet paper on Amazon, at the bottom of the filters on the left (on desktop), you are given the options, “New” and “Used”. ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2020, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/1851 "2020-04-02T17:17:01Z")
**Moderator Note** > [@AdityanathYogi](#): > > If USA doesn’t come together this time forgetting their political differences ( republicans and democrats ) to take down China’s evil CCP, with Europe and India ( I am praying for that) supporting the US, it will be a pity… Keep politics out of this forum, and especially out of breaking news threads. ---
**Author:** ![steronz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steronz/32/11765_2.png) [@steronz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steronz)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2020, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/1852 "2020-04-02T17:33:46Z")
So what exactly is California doing so much better than other states? I haven’t been following them closely, but they don’t seem to have reacted any more strictly than other states with much worse numbers per capita. Have they just gotten lucky somehow? ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2020, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/1853 "2020-04-02T17:54:04Z")
> [@steronz](#): > > So what exactly is California doing so much better than other states? I haven’t been following them closely, but they don’t seem to have reacted any more strictly than other states with much worse numbers per capita. Have they just gotten lucky somehow? a) We shut things down a few weeks before other places. b) The tech industry is strongly telecommute friendly so many of the large companies sent everyone home a week or two before the state even took any action (particularly in Seattle and Silicon Valley). c) Probably, the virus started on the East Coast before the West Coast, but we discovered it on the West Coast as it was just starting there. (IMHO) ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2020, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/1854 "2020-04-02T17:55:54Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > a) We shut things down a few weeks before other places. > b) The tech industry is strongly telecommute friendly. > c) Probably, the virus started on the East Coast before the West Coast, but we discovered it on the West Coast as it was just starting there. (IMHO) Also we are more spread out, even in big cities and our single car culture. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2020, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/1855 "2020-04-02T18:06:55Z")
The world hits 1,000,000 confirmed cases: > **[COVID - Coronavirus Statistics - Worldometer](https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/)** > > Daily and weekly updated statistics tracking the number of COVID-19 cases, recovered, and deaths. Historical data with cumulative charts, graphs, and updates. In actuality of course there are many more. ---
**Author:** ![raspberry\_hunter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b19c9b/32.png) [@raspberry\_hunter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raspberry_hunter)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2020, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/1856 "2020-04-02T18:24:01Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > a) We shut things down a few weeks before other places. And with exponential growth, every single day makes a big difference. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2020, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/1857 "2020-04-02T18:41:35Z")
Worldometer: total cases now over 1,000,000 ETA: ninja’d. Didn’t see there was a new page. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2020, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/1858 "2020-04-02T18:42:17Z")
[Amazon partners with SXSW Film Festival; the festival is going online late this month](https://apnews.com/ff142cd5f7c19454a642e62cd3b25c8d)! > [@](#): > > SXSW announced Thursday that it’s partnering with Amazon Prime Video to stream as much of its movie line-up as possible for a 10-day period in the U.S. **It will be free to viewers with or without an Amazon Prime membership.** (bolding mine) I think this is very cool and will be a welcome diversion for many people. > [@](#): > > Individual films will choose whether they want to opt in to the 10-day “SXSW 2020 Film Festival Collection” on Amazon. Don’t count on movies acquired by Netflix, for example, to participate. The festival declined to say how many films it expects to host. > > But for the filmmakers that do join in, the digital platform could offer a measure of solace for their missed SXSW premiere, and all the promotion benefit that a major festival entails. Filmmakers who participate will receive a screening fee. ---
**Author:** ![Hermitian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hermitian/32/470_2.png) [@Hermitian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hermitian)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2020, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/1859 "2020-04-02T19:18:47Z")
> [@dtilque](#): > > Worldometer: total cases now over 1,000,000 I sure hope that lucky customer got the confetti and balloon drop treatment. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2020, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/1860 "2020-04-02T19:41:40Z")
The UK’s Nathional Health Service has told foreign health care workers who were scheduled to be kicked out of the country because of Brexit and expiring visas, that they can stay till the coronavirus is over. So in other words, “Get out, but not till you’ve taken care of us.” > **[Home Office will extend medics' work visas to help virus response](https://www.standard.co.uk/news/health/medics-work-visas-october-extended-coronavirus-home-office-a4402871.html)** > > Read our live updates on coronavirus HERE Coronavirus: The symptoms ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2020, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/1861 "2020-04-02T20:14:25Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > The Coast Guard is telling cruise ships with sick passengers to stay out of US ports, and to go to the countries whose flags they sail under. > [https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/01/825205607/coast-guard-tells-cruise-ships-with-covid-19-cases-to-stay-away-from-u-s-ports](https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/01/825205607/coast-guard-tells-cruise-ships-with-covid-19-cases-to-stay-away-from-u-s-ports) I keep hearing about these cruise ships and keep wondering WHY, WHY IN OG’S NAME ARE PEOPLE STILL TAKING CRUISES??? ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2020, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/1862 "2020-04-02T20:29:24Z")
> [@Mama\_Zappa](#): > > I keep hearing about these cruise ships and keep wondering > > WHY, WHY IN OG’S NAME ARE PEOPLE STILL TAKING CRUISES??? To be fair, many (all?) of them started right before the shit hit the fan and when the State dept told people not to go on cruises. That being said, people are loathe to risk any money no matter what, and at that point it was not yet clear the whole industry was about to shut down and become generous with refunds. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758.md?page=92) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758.md?page=94)