Coronavirus 2019-2020 thread (no unsubstantiated rumours!)

[vincent]

awesome dude, I'm happy you have "His and Her's M&P's, sweet! you'll have to get a license to go full auto, that's a pretty radical step my friend, but you DO NEED an AR, they are awesome! end off topic

and thank you again for your insight into the covid 19 pandemic, its been very reassuring, we actually now have two confirmed cases in our small town in the Midwest, we are about 3 hours South of Chicago, and 1 hour North of St. Louis,,, so it is a concern, stay safe Brother!

ah, i worked at State Farm headquarter in Bloomington IL for eight months. Quiet little town

 

[supercat]

Remember all the Western MSM reports that Chinese test kits were defective? The matter of fact is, most of the early generations of antibody tests had problems. PCR tests are a different story.

BGI Group helping over 80 countries for timely COVID-19 detection and intervention

-More than 10 million RT-PCR SARS-CoV-2 tests manufactured
-Test kits being distributed to over 80 countries
-Production capacity trebled to more than 2 million tests per day; set to rise further to meet demand

BGI Group is also helping partners to set up emergency testing laboratories in the US, Europe, Middle East and Asia, bringing population-scale detection and diagnosis of COVID-19 to the world.

MGI, part of the BGI Group, confirmed an agreement with the French Health Ministry to provide equipment and materials to 19 hospitals throughout France to enable COVID-19 testing of 2 million people, while BGI Genomics confirmed it will provide 1 million RT-PCR tests for diagnosis of COVID-19.

BGI Genomics is one of the few companies globally that has products recognized as officially approved for use in China, the European Union, the United States, Japan and Australia. BGI's RT-PCR Test for SARS-CoV-2 has been granted approval for emergency use by the US FDA, Europe's CE-IVD, China's NMPA, Japan's PMDA and Australia's TGA.

BGI Group started out at the forefront of the fight against COVID-19 in China and is now spearheading a worldwide response, deploying not only test kits but also laboratory robots to automate sample preparation and powerful sequencers to track virus mutations.

In Wuhan, BGI Group set up its first Huo-Yan or "Fire Eye" Laboratory in five days. This 2,000 square-meter automated Biosafety Level-2 PCR testing laboratory can perform 10,000 tests a day.

A comprehensive solution for rapidly scaling up diagnostic testing, the Fire Eye model is now being implemented around the world. The laboratories combine the best of BGI Group expertise. The laboratory equipment is produced by MGI, a part of the BGI Group focused on sequencing tools and lab automation.
...

In the UAE, together with local partner G42, BGI Group built the first laboratory outside China in Abu Dhabi in just 14 days. It began operating in early April and will scale up to handle tens of thousands of samples a day.

In Sweden, BGI Group has been working with the Karolinska Institute to build a Fire Eye lab in Stockholm. It will perform both virus detection and scientific research for comprehensive monitoring of virus mutations.

In Kansas City, BGI Group formed an innovative partnership with local business leaders and The University of Kansas Health System. The business leaders provided funding to help protect their local community and provide 50,000 test kits, along with lab automation equipment.

The BGI Group has a long history of responding to public health crises, including decoding the genome of the SARS virus in 2003, then developing the virus detection kit in 96 hours, and helping fight the Ebola outbreak in 2014 in West Africa.

Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!

Situation in the U.S. on April 28:

Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!

Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!

Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!

Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!

Situation in China on April 28, excluding HK, Macau, and TW:

Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!

 

[Air Force Brat]

ah, i worked at State Farm headquarter in Bloomington IL for eight months. Quiet little town

Yes Sir, a really nice little town, did you get by the little "Air Museum" on the way out to the Airport, F-14, I believe A-7?? for sure an F-100 in Thunderbird colors....

 

[Intrepid]

yet they wanna open up...good luck to them lol

If the state isn't organized enough fo feed all people when lockdown is in progress you have to open. There is no alternative.

 

[vesicles]

There are lots of places in Texas that you can rent a full auto, and I highly recommend you do that once the corona virus runs its course, you would indeed love it... me I'm to cheap for full auto.... in addition to play wolfs thoughts, I believe you can get a "stamp" from the ATF, perhaps our boy terran empire would know more about that...

There's a young Gent in Texas that has a WC-10 by Wilson Combat, its a larger format AR in 308, we are in negotiations, but its very pricey!

anyway, covid seems to be ramping down now in the large cities that fueled that scary number of deaths, its now out in the field and streams, so still deadly, but thankfully population density will slow it down now...

Yep, my usual gun range offers many full auto firearms that we can have fun with. We just haven’t tried them yet. My wife’s cousin has a handful of rifles and we usual have a lot of fun with them whenever we go visit.

Yep, it does look like the virus is calming down a little. However, I would caution to open the economy at this point. Many states just peaked in their total cases in the past few weeks. That means they still have many infected that haven’t been accounted for. They need to do the reopening in phases and slowly. Open it a little and wait a few weeks and see what happens. Then open a little more. As individuals, we need to maintain our most vigilant discipline throughout the next phases in the next couple months. I would suggest not to visit any friends and not having BBQs in the next few months. Better be safe than sorry.

 

[vincent]

Yes Sir, a really nice little town, did you get by the little "Air Museum" on the way out to the Airport, F-14, I believe A-7?? for sure an F-100 in Thunderbird colors....

unfortunately no. I stayed in the apartment the whole time

 

[shanlung]

Are guns and firearms anything to do with covid19?
Can a responsible moderator remove all those irrelevant chatter please.

 

[localizer]

 

[Aniah]

View attachment 59491

Civilized world huh? I don't even know where to begin with this.

 

[Jura The idiot]

Even better, just do simple painless Covid-19 anti-bodies test on all of the 300 U.S. participants of the Wuhan games. If they all tested negative, then this would make the China government, the laughing stock of the world. Why they don't do it?

?? is that how you handle my Yesterday at 9:34 PM question which has been

well I'd interested in a link to your sentence from Today at 1:19 AM
:

What the China government refers to is alleged 5 members of the U.S teams were sent to a Wuhan hospital that came down with an unknown illness.

I'm still interested in a link which would back up your claim ("your claim" is what I posted as a quote right above, see?); in the meantime here's related DefenseNews story:

Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!