China Quarantines Millions After Thousands Exposed To Mutating Virus That Has Killed Many

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By Tamar Lapin - The New York Post




The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now says the coronavirus “does not spread easily” through touching surfaces or objects.

In early March, the federal health agency was warning that it “may be possible” to pass on the virus from contaminated surfaces, according to Fox News.

Its guidelines now include a section on ways the virus doesn’t easily spread — including from touching surfaces or objects.

“It may be possible that a person can get COVID-19 by touching a surface or object that has the virus on it and then touching their own mouth, nose, or possibly their eyes,” the CDC webpage states.

“This is not thought to be the main way the virus spreads, but we are still learning more about this virus.”

Other ways the virus doesn’t easily spread is from animals to people or people to animals, the CDC’s updated webpage states.

It’s unclear when the CDC updated its guidance. The agency didn’t immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.

The agency continues to note that the virus is thought to mainly spread from person-to-person — even by those not showing symptoms.

Specifically, it mainly spreads between people who are in close contact, within 6 feet of each other, when someone with the infection coughs, sneezes or talks, causing droplets to land in another persons mouth or nose.

The Food and Drug Administration said last month there was no evidence to suggest the virus can spread through food, or what it’s wrapped in and that there was no need to wipe down groceries.

“The biggest issue is that people are picking up COVID-19 from other people,” Marilyn Roberts, a microbiologist and professor at the University of Washington previously told The Post.

“They’re not picking it up from surfaces.”

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Rabbit on Coke has some CRUSHINGLY good points.

I wonder how much you can separate a government from its people though? This is a general philosophical question

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Yet we must keep the country locked down

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In CA not one person under 18 has died, not one....but we needed to shut down all the schools

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In CA not one person under 18 has died, not one....but we needed to shut down all the schools

Silly.

Ours beginning to open again in a few days

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Well, looks like we have a case of our local Nazi Government trying to overstep their bounds. I guess that at a major mail sorting facility in the city of Denver (that handles ALL the mail for Colorado and Wyoming) has had "some" employees test positive for the Flu Manchu. I say some because the city won't disclose it. And the city is pissed that they didn't have 'full access' to the facility when they went to inspect it, they were only allowed in sections that were open to the public. So, because of this, the city has ordered the facility to close immediately until it meets what the city guidelines say is "safe". But the USPS reported that no, they will not be closing, sorry Denver. They note they are a Federal facility which is not subject to the city's whims on things like this, not to mention the fact that the USPS is an essential business that handles the mail for over 6 million people just in that facility. They stated they are following all Federal and CDC guidelines for running safely.

Let's see what the Tin Plated Dictator of the People's Republic of Denver will do next.

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AWESOME rant by Governor DeSantis of Florida (bottom video).

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Because I'm so close to the Georgia-Florida border, all of the local news organizations whose broadcasts I receive are in Jacksonville, Florida. I only ever see reports on DeSantis and never anything on Kemp.

And that Rebekah Jones is a train wreck.

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China recorded no new confirmed COVID-19 cases on the mainland for May 22, the first time it had seen no daily rise in the number of cases since the pandemic began in Wuhan late last year.




A security guard wearing a face mask and gloves stands at the entrance to Beijing's Forbidden City.

Nailed it!

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Bullshit.

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In CA not one person under 18 has died, not one....but we needed to shut down all the schools

70% of Ohios deaths have been in nursing homes.

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