{"id":51161,"date":"2020-02-14T16:23:17","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T21:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=51161"},"modified":"2020-02-14T16:23:22","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T21:23:22","slug":"is-the-coronavirus-covid-19-now-unstoppable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=51161","title":{"rendered":"Is The Coronavirus (Covid-19) Now Unstoppable?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.peakprosperity.com\/is-the-coronavirus-covid-19-now-unstoppable\/\">Is The Coronavirus (Covid-19) Now Unstoppable?<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>New data suggests so<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Oh, boy\u2026the scientific research on covid-19 (the new name of the Wuhan coronavirus) continues to reveal what a huge challenge containing this virus is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A new report from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.medrxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/2020.02.07.20021154v1.full.pdf\">Los Alamos Labs<\/a>&nbsp;calculates its R0 at between 4.7 to 6.6. That is massively contagious!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/01L-SktgzXc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s little wonder then why we\u2019re seeing more and more reports of doctors and health workers falling sick, despite using proper PPE and contamination protocol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">China, which bumped up the number of total infected within the country by 33% last night, is clearly facing a public health nightmare of epic proportion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As we keep saying, we think the true reality on the ground there is even much worse than the official numbers we\u2019re being given.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That said, China\u2019s totalitarian approach of mandatory home quarantine for hundred of millions of people is likely the best way to fight a virus this contagious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Will other countries, like the US, be able to enforce such controls on their populations if required to combat covid-19? Could they, even if they tried?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A full-blown pandemic looks increasingly unstoppable at this point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is The Coronavirus (Covid-19) Now Unstoppable? New data suggests so Oh, boy\u2026the scientific research on covid-19 (the new name of the Wuhan coronavirus) continues to reveal what a huge challenge containing this virus is. A new report from&nbsp;Los Alamos Labs&nbsp;calculates its R0 at between 4.7 to 6.6. That is massively contagious! It\u2019s little wonder then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[9860,130,3596,28817,29011,19255,2218,664,7258],"class_list":["post-51161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-adam-taggart","tag-china","tag-chris-martenson","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-global-pandemic","tag-peak-prosperity","tag-quarantine","tag-viral-outbreak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51162,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51161\/revisions\/51162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}