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[Euroamerican]

^---wuhan ban auf der autobahn.......... So why isn't HE masked up. Weird.....

 

[Mordoror]

And now there is a H5N1 avian flu outbreak alert.....
Who broke the Seal and unleashed the Pale Horseman?

 

[bdpopeye]

So it's ready now?

Yes, according to the Chinese media.

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[bdpopeye]

one more;

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[colin traveller]

The area they are building those quarantine medical area's just along from it was a new housing scheme possibly in the process of being built ...

I garuntee those unfinished flats will be condemed .. because they will sure as hell struggle to sell them after it imo if they actually proceed to finish that housing scheme

 

[TheKiwi]

And now there is a H5N1 avian flu outbreak alert.....
Who broke the Seal and unleashed the Pale Horseman?

Avian flu would have to win the prize for most threatened but of least effect in the field of Bio-Panics over the past 20 years. It could be the mascot for trying to panic people into changing their ways.

 

[primer]

China has been carrying out a chicken cull for this reason, along with a pig cull for African Swine fever. Presumably snakes or bats are next.

 

[Mordoror]

Avian flu would have to win the prize for most threatened but of least effect in the field of Bio-Panics over the past 20 years. It could be the mascot for trying to panic people into changing their ways.

The media way of covering the subject, yes certainly
The infectiologists i know are still apprehensives each time a critical spot is detected in particular during normal flu circulating period.

Avian flu is highly lethal but poorly transmissible but what is feared is a recombination with already present influenza viruses
This is exactly what led to the Spanish flu and this is what is overwatched

 

[Picanha]

China has been carrying out a chicken cull for this reason, along with a pig cull for African Swine fever. Presumably snakes or bats are next.

In 1958 they killed all sparrows because Mao thought they ate too much grain

In 1958 Mao Zedong ordered all the sparrows to be killed because they ate too much grain. This caused one of the worst environmental disasters in history

 

[Connaught Ranger]

Fears thick 'death' smog over Wuhan confirms China is burning coronavirus bodies
Several Chinese nationals have shared their concern over a fog which has engulfed Wuhan, fuelling fears the death toll inside coronavirus-hit China is higher than what has been reported


https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/la...PnYZHn020FqKuqXPWk_hg8zOKKtkGyhvLPVigYdLUf7JU

 

[bdpopeye]

Huoshenshan Hospital in Wuhan, started admitting patients on Tuesday morning, February 4, 2020. The first batch of 50 patients from three hospitals, including Wuchang Hospital and Hankou Hospital, has been transferred to the newly built hospital and the patients are undergoing treatment. The hospital, built in 10 days, was formally delivered to military medics on Sunday morning. Covering an area of 34,000 square meters, the hospital provides 1,000 beds for coronavirus patients who are gradually transferred to the hospital. (Photos/people.com.cn)

 

[bdpopeye]

Another video of hospital construction;

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[snowmanca]

^^^^ as i said previously this kind of mask is useless to protect yourself.

While those thin masks do not stop anything airborne, they can keep people from touching places on their face that are higher risk for transferring infection till after they wash their hands.

 

[TheKiwi]

...Avian flu is highly lethal but poorly transmissible but what is feared is a recombination with already present influenza viruses
...

Poorly transmissible in large part as birds and mammals are very different creatures in almost every respect of biology. I'd worry a lot more about a Swine flu crossing species barrier than I ever will about a bird flu.

 

[BCNTM]

I wonder if he asked for tips....

Driver was from tup north - no need for any of them new fangled face mask things - southern softies would have been in full hazmat suit and would have pranged the bus

 

[BCNTM]

So it's ready now?

Why can't some people just use the safety equipment... Could be one more patient right there.

You don't get something built in 8 days with an elf and safety officer anywhere on site

 

[bdpopeye]

I've no idea how much truth is in this article...nor how much is BS...

A county in China is offering people $140 to tell on neighbors who have visited Wuhan, and another is threatening the death penalty to anyone deliberately spreading the coronavirus

China has been struggling to contain the coronavirus epidemic, which initially broke out in the central province of Hubei.

news.yahoo.com

 

[PEMM]

You don't get something built in 8 days with an elf and safety officer anywhere on site

An elf? ?

 

[Ivan le Fou]

An elf? ?

Santa's little helpers.

 

[PEMM]

Santa's little helpers.

I have worked as an elf (in Santa Claus Village), so I know that role.

But I was wondering on the context of construction site.