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I was actually in Northern Italy myself for two weeks, ending 10 days ago. I was actually there to see the unveiling of the 2020 Ferrari Formula 1 car just outside Maranello, but that’s a story for another day. We traveled about 3,000 kilometers during our 2 weeks including visiting Milan, Venice and the Republic of San Mariano. The number of Chinese tourists was (apparently) vastly down but they were there in every place we visited. One large shopping mall complex we visited was specifically aimed at Chinese tourists. They are a major force in the tourist industry these days.

Not helping matters on the Corona virus prevention front is the Italian custom of right cheek, left cheek, hug.

I feel fine but I’m pretty much self quarantining for about another week just out of courtesy.

I think you are right about the extended quarantine time. After being locked on board that Diamond Princess ship for 2 weeks, and then evacuated 10 days ago to further quarantine on land, another 2 Americans have now come down with it. 30 days may be a minimum effective quarantine. As the world numbers rise, we will learn just how much is really needed.

Thank you, @Some Vegetable, for your courtesy! Now, if only everyone in similar circumstances would do the same perhaps the ChiCom KillFlu will die out and leave us alone.

Hoe-Lee-Crap!

Welp, there goes the rest of the week.

Is Nemesis bringing her Nemetoads?

Mrs D thinks I’m a nutjob, but I layed in more rice, flour and steel cut oats, oh an olive oil. Can’t be running out of olive oil for cooking in Survival Hovel.

Latest research report out of China shows that WuFlu, while nearly identical to BatFlu-13, has a genetic mutation similar to HIV that makes it 1000 times more infectious as SARS. The invasive vector is something called a “furin-like cleavage site”.

This may be why some people who have had it and recovered get sick again, like the lady in Japan in today’s news.

The likelihood that this thing is natural gets smaller every day.

I have to agree, Drew. This looks like another of those stories that has made made its way from Conspiracy Theory Corner to centre stage.

Sorry, bats. It appears I did you an injustice.

Reading in other places – here’s a thought for you weasel that might brighten the horizon. There’s “conspiracy” suspicion that the Coronavirus has been with us for a while.

That lingering lurgie thing you had? Remember? We’ve had similar issues here – feeling crappy, then coughs and crappy feeling that doesn’t go away as they normally do.

Just a thought.

You know, I’d had exactly the same thought, DurnedYankee but dismissed it as paranoid thinking. What really made me wonder was that I either caught it again, or had a relapse. Sounds awfully like the bug, doesn’t it?

We had actually discussed that possibility, Durned. More along the lines of “most of the country has come down with a nasty bug with clearly delineated symptoms, how come it doesn’t have a name?” It wouldn’t surprise me if some oldies died of it; it was deeply horrible.

In terms of symptoms, the main difference I can see with coronavirus is that it starts with a 3 or 4 day fever.

Weasy – you mean you notice it when you get a 3 or 4 day fever 🙂 . I haven’t followed the details of the current outbreak, but being asymptomatic is a “symptom” until it hits you, right?

Been a couple of go rounds locally and we’ve had it, and others have had it. As you said, they never seem to have a name for it just “something that’s going around”. But everybody notices you just can’t seem to shake it once it’s got you, and that’s very unlike the colds and flu everyone seems to have gotten in the past.

The conspiracy part is that the CDC knows danged well what it is and that it’s here, but isn’t talking about it. But there’s me, feeding the conspiracy ranting. I can’t think that NOW they’d talk about it. Unless you go really deep and it’s to “get Trump!” 🙂