Too bad everyone is just going to forget about it once this blows over (to put it mildly). People want their cheap stuff, if not China, Vietnam or some other low labor cost Asian country. 

Here in NYC they are asking recently retired medical personnel to volunteer and at Columbia/NYP they are also asking qualified med students to be ready. Just this morning, we gave the hospital all the gloves we have in our research lab. Good luck to all the medical workers. 

This latest travel ban of foreigners from the Schengen region really should not be that much of a surprise. Trump banned entry from China in early February with also only two days of lead time for people to figure out their travel. The only bit of circumstance that helped that particular situation was that US airlines…

lol the cynicism in the comments section....

The governor needs to test more people in NYC. As of yesterday they only tested like 300 people in a city of 8+ million. At least test all the people under quarantine for direct contact with confirmed patients. You can’t wait for people to show symptoms before testing, they’d have already started spreading.

So Seventh Generation?

Bob#2 be like

look if you want to be pedantic at least get it right. the virus is named SARS-CoV-2. COVID-19 is the disease it causes. 

No reason to ruin perfectly good vodka by trying to make it into hand sanitizer. Just drink up. 

This coronavirus debacle is just a train wreck out of China that keeps on wrecking itself.

Not sure if the authors took into consideration the amount of people traveling inside and outside of China during what was the peak travel time leading up to the Chinese New Year in estimating what it could’ve been.

Small numbers are inherently less reliable in descriptive statistics. 

It’s times like this that I wished we’d just let these lies fly and allow Darwinian theory to do its job. 

Obviously not a lawyer here but this seems petty af. 

Ultra rare Japanese whisky or Supreme Oreo?

Basic medical care is heavily subsidized by the government in China, for most people. According to a news report I say, CT scan is like $60, nucleic acid testing for corona virus is $100. A hospital stay for a mild case can total up to $1000, for a few days. Severe cases requiring ICU stay and ECMO are expensive, like…

What’s really missing from this discussion of tote bags telling us eating local is that ubiquitous tote bags themselves are actually a significant burden to the environment. 

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Is it draconian to lock down cities and ban travel? Yes. But you gotta do what you gotta do to try to stamp out the fire.