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I just had to wake my ass up at 5am and run to the store. By 5:30am the entire isle of TP was already gone, along with the water. We had to wait 40 minutes in line just to check out. It was as busy as a weekend right before the 4th of July. People are panic buying like it’s the end of the world. The diary section was ran sacked, there were ppl waiting as the meat guy opened boxes of meat and grabbing them before he could put them on the shelves. The frozen section was really thin. The rice was nearly gone except for the sushi rice.

At least this is good practice for a Bernie Sanders Presidency
 

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I just had to wake my ass up at 5am and run to the store. By 5:30am the entire isle of TP was already gone, along with the water. We had to wait 40 minutes in line just to check out. It was as busy as a weekend right before the 4th of July. People are panic buying like it’s the end of the world. The diary section was ran sacked, there were ppl waiting as the meat guy opened boxes of meat and grabbing them before he could put them on the shelves. The frozen section was really thin. The rice was nearly gone except for the sushi rice.

At least this is good practice for a Bernie Sanders Presidency

What....you don't like sushi rice? Bigot.
 

Doomsday

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Plus, we've all been had. Check this out, from a 20 year-old medical book:

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Here at local Safeway they limit 5 per customers at crown hill Safeway ( owned by Albertsons)

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What book? What does this mean, is coronavirus a general category of viruses or something?
I posted earlier all the facts about this virus and it is informative reading. It's a SARS virus, just like flu, H1N1 and many others. They are all coronaviruses. SARS itself stands for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome.
 

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I posted earlier all the facts about this virus and it is informative reading. It's a SARS virus, just like flu, H1N1 and many others. They are all coronaviruses. SARS itself stands for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome.

so basically coronavirus is a category and C19 is a current mutation of this category which as of yet has no vaccine ?

Its not like we've known about this current strain which is how the post sounded like to me
 

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so basically coronavirus is a category and C19 is a current mutation of this category which as of yet has no vaccine ?

Its not like we've known about this current strain which is how the post sounded like to me
Yep it's a new strain. SARS-CoV-2. I'll re-post my earlier post that's buried in all the internetking spam.
 

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COVID-19 infection
Nucleic acid sequences of viruses taken from pangolins have been found to be a 99% match to those of the virus which causes COVID-19, SARS coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and is responsible for the 2019–20 coronavirus outbreak. The working theory of researchers in Guangzhou, China is that SARS-CoV-2 originated in bats and, prior to infecting humans, was circulating among pangolins. The illicit Chinese trade of pangolins for use in "traditional" Chinese medicine (Witch Doctor stuff) is suggested as a vector for human transmission. Pangolins were eventually ruled out as the definitive source, namely the bridge that the virus used to jump from bats to humans.

Two strains of the virus have caused outbreaks of severe respiratory diseases in humans: SARS-CoV, which caused an outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) between 2002 and 2003, and SARS-CoV-2, which since late 2019 has caused an outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). There are hundreds of other strains of SARSr-CoV, all of which are only known to infect non-human species: bats are a major reservoir of many strains of SARS-related coronaviruses, and several strains have been identified in palm civets, which were likely ancestors of SARS-CoV.

The SARS-related coronavirus was one of several viruses identified by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2016 as a likely cause of a future epidemic in a new plan developed after the Ebola epidemic for urgent research and development before and during an epidemic towards diagnostic tests, vaccines and medicines. The prediction came to pass with the 2019–20 coronavirus outbreak.

In the SARS outbreak of 2003, about 9% of patients with confirmed SARS-CoV infection died. The mortality rate was much higher for those over 60 years old, with mortality rates approaching 50% for this subset of patients.
 

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We never came up with a vaccine for the first SARS pandemic, never had any of this panic associated with it, although it killed 1000s of us.
 
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