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Tango01 Supporting Member of TMP03 Jan 2023 2:58 p.m. PST

…Because Of Covid


"For five days the elderly Chinese lady's corpse lay decomposing in the Shanghai house she shared with her family before a hearse finally arrived to take away her remains.


"We're lucky it's the cold winter time," a relative said last week at Shanghai's Longhua Funeral Home, recounting the ordeal as the family waited their turn to say goodbye along with roughly 300 other masked mourners, many of whom asked not to be identified discussing sensitive issues…."


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Mr Elmo04 Jan 2023 3:54 a.m. PST

Hopefully we learned the next pandemic needs to be a slow burn. People will die, others will survive, and in about two years it will be over.

To try and lock up to stay safe only causes an explosion of cases when people venture out again.

ScottWashburn Sponsoring Member of TMP04 Jan 2023 7:13 a.m. PST

Even with our stay-home measures, our hospitals were pushed to, and past, the breaking point. How much worse would it have been if we'd just tried to ignore it?

Mr Elmo04 Jan 2023 6:59 p.m. PST

How much worse would it have been if we'd just tried to ignore it?

That's why I said slow burn. We don't ignore it but need to find just the right amount of contact to get the illness moving around but not so quickly we do overwhelm the health care system.

A lot will depend on what the next pandemic is like.

Tango01 Supporting Member of TMP04 Jan 2023 8:46 p.m. PST

World Health Organization warns XBB.1.5 is the 'most transmissible' Covid variant yet

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Tango01 Supporting Member of TMP07 Jan 2023 9:12 p.m. PST

China 'White Lung' Cases Raising Concerns that A New Covid Variant, Or A New Disease, Is Now Spreading In The Population

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U.S. and global health officials are worried about lack of transparency from China on Covid outbreak


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Tango01 Supporting Member of TMP22 Jan 2023 9:16 p.m. PST

China Says 80% Of The Population Have Been Infected With Covid

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