Virus spread in America by "community transmission"...? What is that?!

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  1. Pollycy

    Pollycy Well-Known Member

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    Now we're getting current news that the Corona virus (COVID19) has been diagnosed in Americans who have had no contact whatever with anyone who was in China, and who never went there themselves! So, now what the hell... does the virus just pop up out of the ground?! :eyepopping:

    https://www.statnews.com/2020/02/28/california-oregon-coronavirus-case-community-spread/
    https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/28/cor...confirm-second-us-case-of-unknown-origin.html
    https://edition.cnn.com/2020/02/27/health/us-cases-coronavirus-community-transmission/index.html

    And, oddly, so far, all of the known instances have been right on the West Coast.... :cynic:

    I'm not quite at the point yet of thinking that this is all part of some 'conspiracy', but surely there is something that "they" aren't telling us....

    [​IMG]. "I told you idiots, "DON'T SPOOK THE HERD!"
     
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    Maybe they came in contact with the "Trump Response Team" that violated protocol (by not wearing protective gear)?
     
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    Steve N Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Or maybe they came in contact with some illegals from down south.
     
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    Very possible.

    Virus gonna Virus, Etc.
     
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    Then they would have come in contact with people directly.

    I expect those career civil servants have been fired for violating the president procedures
     
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    They aren't telling you what they don't know and there is a lot they don't know. Two possibilities. The first is that someone caught the virus from another person that nobody knew had the the virus. The other is that the tests they use aren't worth a plug nickel. Common sense tells me that but people tend to abandon common sense when they get worked up.
     
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    Just what we need ... a great mass of infected illegals rushing the border to get treated in the U.S.

    It sure would have been nice to have a 50 foot, electrified wall.
     
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    WTF? Do you really believe any of that?
    Do you actually believe that Democrats are trying to spread the virus?

    If so, you need help, man. A lot of help.
     
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    Do you believe Democrats hide hurricane relief from hurricane victims?
     
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    No known contact doesn't mean no contact. The patient could have come in to contact with someone who was infected but asymptomatic without either of them being aware or the patient might know they were in a risk group but is unwilling to admit it for whatever reason. Also, given the reference to them being in a serious condition, it might just be that they're in no position to given investigators the details of their recent travel and contacts that would be necessary to identify the likely source of their infection.

    There is absolutely zero justification for thinking there is anything we're not being told here and your attempt to spin this up in to something more is indefensible.
     
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    Not for political gain, no.
    Incompetence - yeah, that's easy to believe and not restricted to Democrats.
    Corruption - possibly, but again not restricted to any one particular party.

    If you actually believe that Democrats are trying to spread the virus, you need a lot of help. That idea is just sick.
     
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    Absolutely, to make Trump look bad.
     
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    An appeals court just sent the illegals a new invitation.
     
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    The Kung Flu sounds like a bad cold to me. Most people don't go to the doctor when they get a cold, they just let it run it's course. They probably got it from someone that didn't even know they had the Kung Flu.

     
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    *they* who dey? named it after a mexican beer to give us a hint, the illegal immigrants bring all sorts of diseases from their poor countries.

    the west coast is where most of the china men and mexicans illegally settle
     
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    There is evidence that the virus has an incubation period up to 27 days. There's evidence that asymptomatic folks can spread it. And China is literally washing or outright destroying physical currency to try to stop the spread (link). It wouldn't surprise me if there are tens of thousands or even more who are infected in the US and don't know it yet. Wash your hands, folks.
     
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    Wow! Just Wow!

    They are your fellow Americans - you get that don’t you?
     
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    Trying to find a part of that post that is not derogatory and racist
     
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    They are.

    Trump Rage is incredible in it's ability to make people go blind to anything but adherence to it.
     
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    The hard left would go anything to make Trump look bad. Anything.

    I have no idea how things are in Australia, but the left here is Machiavellian on steroids.
     
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    I lived through eight years of Obama. You guys did the exact same thing. You can't now just pretend that you didn't.
     
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    It's nowhere near the same with Obama and Trump.

    We hated Obama's leftist ideology. The Dems hate Trump. They hate his hair ... his wife ... his golf courses ... his buildings ... his kids, etc., etc.
     
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    Oh, please, Joe, by all means -- believe everything you are told by the government, and trust that you are being told everything.

    I doubt you remember the Swine Flu epidemic of 1976, but I remember it well! The government came out with a vaccine (ta-DAH!) and herded ALL of us into getting it ASAP. The result? A number of people DIED, and many more suffered partial paralysis in their limbs, and some of it was permanent. I was one of the lucky ones... I only lost the ability to feel anything with my right thumb for about seven months. But, hey, I was a good, GULLIBLE citizen back then! I believed the government (even after it lied to us for ten straight years about the Vietnam War), and I believed that I was being told everything that was important. Link: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/long-shadow-1976-swine-flu-vaccine-fiasco-180961994/

    Oh, incidentally, I haven't had a "flu shot" since then, and, I haven't had the "flu", either -- and that's more than FORTY-THREE YEARS!

    But, criticize me to your heart's content. Frankly, I don't give a sh!t what you think about me or the Coronavirus -- believe everything the government tells you, and fully trust in the government to tell you everything it knows. :angel:

    BTW, I did say in my post, "I'm not quite at the point yet of thinking that this is all part of some 'conspiracy', but surely there is something that "they" aren't telling us...." So, now, if you want to slam me -- have at it! But for all that, I hope you DON'T get this virus... which is a thing I wouldn't even wish on Barack Obama....

    Last question: do YOU in YOUR wisdom know how any in this special group of people became infected with the Corona virus...?! I'm sure the CDC would love to hear from YOU....
     
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    They are reporting that a Washington state home for senior citizens has 50 people who are sick with suspected coronavirus, some are residents some are staff who are going home out into the general community spreading their illness???
     
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    They don’t have to do a thing!

    Trump does it for them!
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    We are talking about someone who altered a weather map because he did not want to say he made a mistake
     
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