God give me strength! WTF does it matter who the flamin L caused it or where the flamin L it came from, bat's gizzards or frog's legs!

It doesn't help here and now! I mean it's here already and the only thing worth a plugged nickel are solutions and the folk that provide them!

The rest of you "thinkers". can follow AJ in ever-decreasing road rage circles until you disappear up that fundamental orifice, with the master of the incomprehensible himself at the head loudly and proudly proclaiming, it's all Chia-na's fault! That'll fix it, won't it?

Oops! Who turned the lights out?

Not happy Jan?
Alan B.

Alan, two previous virus came from that same wet market, as they call it.
Experts in the business from other countries asked the Chinese to close it.
They were ignored.
The Central Kingdom is not answerable to others.
On that subject I put a post onto Ausexit thread you and others might find of interest.

A Must see !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnbC9ocFMDw&feature=youtu.be

Dear Alan B,

Given the proposed protocols the chances of getting a respirator if you are over 60 are pretty dire, and thus rather fraught for a raft of the OLO posters, may I offer this little word of advice. It may well be time to take up smoking again.

This little study just out titled Asymptomatic and Presymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Infections in Residents of a Long-Term Care Skilled Nursing Facility — King County, Washington, March 2020 reveals an interesting statistic. See table 1.

Smokers 7 infected 1 so 14% afflicted
Nonsmokers 46 - infected 22 so 48% afflicted
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6913e1.htm  

It may well be that smoking may confer some kind of protection as in a nonconducive environment for the virus to infect the upper nasal passage. Of course if it goes to the lungs then being a smoker does not bode well for the survival rates. But given the potential rationing of respirators prevention may well be better than the cure.

Very small sample size of course. Enough for me to consider it if I were in my 70s.

Good luck all.

Thanks for that SR, And it may well be the carcinogenic tar that protects the lungs from covid-19?

Then allows them to succumb to lung cancer or my favourite, emphysema.

I think the best outcome ahead of an effective antiviral, is to get a mild dose and acquire natural immunity. Then become noncontagious!

I don't believe any of us die before the allotted time and if my term is up? Not a hell of a lot I can do about it.

Take care and stay safe.
Alan B.

The Wuhan virus aka COVID-19 pandemic is what we call one of the great turning points in history.

I image the West will restructure its economic policies and start to rebuild the local industries that have been decimated by globalisation over the past several decades in order to reduce a reliance on manufactures from China.

Problem for Australia is that it let itself be used by China so that everyone could live of Chinese cash only to have all the benefits wiped out by the Wuhan virus in a few short weeks. And what did we end up with for our troubles: a large Chinese population that no one wants anymore.

Everyone now wants to get rid of China and the Chinese and go back to what life was like 30 odd years ago.