I also have a morbid fascination with that map. It is the first thing that I check every morning.
Heh, can remember when the Macondo well was in full swing, that was one of the first things I would check every morning until it got capped.
Further to my post above re two cases in KZN.
Local news outlet says that both cases are negative.
Then it turns out that a local radio channel intervieved both families.
They found that the one guy was indeed tested and is negative, while the second guy still have to find somebody to test him.
And the WHO put my country on a list that they will be sending helpers to in order to check on things etc and to be of assistance in case of an outbreak.
Fun times I tell you.
@Nabiki do you have enough place for two adults and four kids to crash out? 
They make the testing kits here in Indiana, and they are marking each one with a unique identifier to help with examining results as they continue changing the testing methods and cures.
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Just a curious question - are the kits easily identifiable?
So if you have a couple of kits, that you can choose the correct one?
What do such a kit consists of?
Do you need training to use such a kit? Or special equipment?
This twatter thread confirms my suspicions of a cover up in South Africa.
I have no idea, I don’t think it’s a case of certain ones working and not working but rather tracking the batches as they go through.
Crowdsourced Reddit map
Latest reports is that there are infections in the Army and Navy, most especially amongst the submariners.
I’ve eaten Pangolin (in Burma), and I’ve been fine ever since.
Of course, that was 1986 …
Please, please, please please, … make sure your testing kit isn’t a Chinese knockoff.
Some of the things I heard on NPR this past week:
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North Korea says it doesn’t have any cases of infection. Yeah, uh, no. Poor record-keeping, lack of medical supplies and equipment, no running water in some hospitals, diseases misidentified. North Korea and China are like a family: when one kid gets sick, the rest of the house often does, too.
A quote from a state media op-ed this month: “The advantages and might of our state will be fully demonstrated to the whole world when we ensure that the virus does not reach our country.” Better warm up the Memory Hole for when this turns out not to be true. -
President Trump’s spat/attempts to get China to play fair comes at a time when cooperation between nations would really help get this under control.
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The virus is having a global effect beyond a health impact. China has a big holiday where factories are closed. The holiday was extended to reduce the chance of infected people coming back to work. Now the factories are staying closed, but people are getting to the point where they need to go back to work.
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How the disease turns deadly.. When the immune system responds to the disease, it can destroy lung tissue and cause inflammation, causing pneuomonia.
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Tourism companies are getting hit hard, Shanghai Disneyland is closed, and all 70,000 movie theaters in China are closed. For the same three-week time span last year, movie revenue was $1.52 billion. This year, $3.9 million. The live-action Mulan remake won’t be shown in China for a while, or possibly not at all for its planned theatrical run. That’s a bit of a bummer because the Chinese population would have responded well to the movie. Hua Mulan is a legendary character in their history, the movie has a large Asian cast and it was filmed in China.
Since they are actually made a dozen or so miles from my house if I do get one it likely will be shipped from China, because doesn’t that makes sense.
North Korea doesn’t have any cases because the only one I heard of was because they shot them.
And le sigh, I love how NPR always takes the Chinese (Iranian, Norko, terrorist, whatever) view of things over it’s own government’s. The US says we are offering all the help they will accept, but China says blah blah blah… this is a communist country that controls it’s own media with an iron hand and has dissppeared multiple people involved in this pandemic… but they’ll tell NPR the absolute truth.
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Maybe if they had told the world about this issue in December when it started they’d be all better by now and could watch the movie.
They didn’t do well on that front, either. One doctor notices a new disease going around, sends a message to an online group he’s a part of to say they should take steps to protect themselves. The government response? Sending policemen and forcing him to sign a statement he was spreading false rumors.
Shortly thereafter, he contracted the disease from a woman whom he was giving an eye examination for glaucoma. She wasn’t showing symptoms at the time. And not long after that, he died.
Dr Li Wenlian is promoted to hero status since he tried to warn others, but the totalitarian state was havening none of that.
A couple of vloggers/bloggers reporting from Wuhan all met the same fate.
Economically the world will stumble. How hard that stumble will be, none can say.
Riiight. Convenient that.
Seems like it is spreading in Japan.
And in Iran they’ve implemented martial law in the City of Qom.