Regards,
From a C/Net article:
"Amazon on Monday confirmed that it's significantly delaying US deliveries of nonessential items, as part of its effort to get more medical supplies and household staples to its customers during the coronavirus pandemic. According to product listings on its website, some of these shipments will be delayed by as much as a month."
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One advantage eBay has is that it's Sellers are individual accounts, NOT warehouse based. With Amazon "delaying" shipments on non-essential items as much as a month perhaps Buyers will be less likely to purchase from them not wanting to wait that long?!? If eBay Sellers can still ship their items they stand a good chance of having their sales increase IMHO.
@dk0 wrote:
@mr_lincoln wrote:
We were talking about the regular annual flu today and earlier this week the President mentioned in one of the new conferences on Covid-19 that this season we may lose upwards of 50,000 Americans to it (the regular annual flu) but then talk turned to Covid-19. We're losing 25K to 50K annually from the flu ... and nobody freaks out when I think they should because for the most part it all comes from the same place. I really hope after Covid-19 the world bans together and confronts the guilty country to let them know that unless they clean up their act the rest of the world is going to shut them off each year from November to April ... trust me, it would only take one year of that and they would fix their problem(s). Not doing something like that like saying its okay for thousands and thousands of people to die each year because one small part of the world is allowed to eat wild animals carrying viruses ...
First of all, humans don't contract a virus from eating wild animals, they contract it from handling/touching things contaminated with viruses. It's not so much what people eat, it's the fact that in many markets, live animals of many different species are sold in very tight quarters, allowing viruses from different species to mix and mutate. While many influenza viruses do appear to originate in Asia, that is hardly a "small part of the world", and constitutes billions of people.
Keeping animals of different species apart to reduce opportunities for them to mutate would be ideal, but would not be a total solution. Animals of different species are kept in close quarters on farms worldwide, and also come into contact with one another in the wild.
But, viruses can originate anywhere, and the most likely origination of the deadly so-called "Spanish flu" from a century ago was either Europe or the US. (The first known case was diagnosed in the US.) More recently, the H1N1 swine flu outbreak from 2009 is believed to have it's origin in Mexico or the US. Pigs and birds unfortunately are good at exchanging viruses, and I am pretty sure you will find them on the same farms all over the world.
The "seasonal" flu viruses are already circulating in the human population, and there is no way to prevent them from continuing to do so short of quarantining all of humanity until they are eradicated. These viruses mutate over time just enough to evade the immune responses of the human body which allows them to persist. These mutations often come from Asia, but it has nothing to do with what people eat, it's a function of population density, climate, etc.
Lastly, the seasonal flu has a much lower mortality rate than COVID-19. Additionally, we are able to determine which flu varieties are prevalent in a given year and create flu vaccines accordingly. (It's not an exact science as there is significant lead time between the observations and the vaccines being ready for large numbers of people.) I don't know what percentage of people in the US get the flu vaccine each season, but if everyone received a vaccine, that would certainly reduce the number of infections, slow the spread and reduce deaths.
Common flu vaccines are at least one year behind and they "guesstimate" with the best information available which strains "may" be prevalent and then they create the vaccine. Part of the process is to study vectors coming out of China and other places but China is one of the main focuses ... locally (years ago) they would breed the flu vaccine in egg embryo at a Wyeth lab facility (which closed a few years back if memory serves).
Have they made advancements? Sure but even Dr. Fauci has admitted that even for Covid-19 if they found a promising vaccine they would have to start making it while the trials are going on because they couldn't do the trials to prove it and then say OKAY, this is it lets send it out because they would be 6 months away from having in in a form to inject in humans.
@prettywoman-2012 IMHO everyone should stay in their own state for now, exceptions of course would be transportation of goods or essential service providers.
I am watching the virus's slow march across our state. Our county has about 543,000 people
Monday 3-23 10 cases no deaths
Thurs-Fri 33 cases no deaths
Sunday 3-29 67 cases 2 deaths
It is spreading east to west. Fortunately, we're getting a lot done around the house.
