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baobrain on Jan 31, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: WHO declares coronavirus outbreak a public health ...

It's highly unlikely that those ambulances are related to the virus. There are 0 confirmed cases in Northern Ireland, and if it was a suspected case the government and media would be all over it to find people who were potentially infected.

headmelted on Jan 31, 2020 [–]

I’m afraid you have more faith than I do in local government.

I wouldn’t expect them to try to “cover it up” but I’d very much expect them to act slowly in notifying and not take it as seriously as they should.

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