Possibly in the superstructure of a ship, but I'd bet container. Local hornets will colonize any sheltered place with access to food in a heartbeat. A young queen and ideally a few studmuffin/workers & off they go!
As threats to human life go? Fairly severe, if not directly by swarming you. They need to be hunted and eradicated!
Luckily this is America! Europe jr. Europeans have mastered panic driven genocide. Go ahead, find a wolf near Stuttgart. Lion in suburban Detroit. Doesn't matter if few people are eaten or killed, the threat gets attacked. Anthro 101. Darwin. Whatever.
Hmm. they're big enough to scare you, and shoot or hit with something.
I prognosticate a future where every man carries a small repeater shotgun pistol with Hornet shells, biodegradable plastic sanitizing shot. As will ladies! And either sex may carry a purse/phone/claymore to protect from swarms. ( hand held shaped charge replaceable decorative covers. )
Fancy flyswatters will be the Accessory do jour. Carbon fiber, aerodynamic, the perfect, hi tech ( and profitable ) symbol of Manly Men.
And...Fashion! Masks? Ha! So 20's! The hot trend will be mesh motorcycle armor style, very cyberpunk and anime, except the padding will be designed for comfort walking and sitting, while keeping a breathable net between you and the Chinese Mutant Hornets. Oh, and show off the body as social display.
Think Fast and Furious biker gal. Sailor Moon fat guy... (Shudder) Naughty Skydiver.
Last night on NBC news it was funny to see Lester and his fellow Party Censors panicking over Trump without his mask on the WH balcony.
Conspicuously absent was any discussion of what are the rates of infection to hospitalization (for ordinary folk, not the POTUS) and rates of infection to death or even bad long term effects.
Now it's not "until we flatten the curve", it's "until you make blacks and whites equal".
Which, in the context of a Civil War to free the slaves and the decades of struggle to force the government to accept equal rights exist no matter skin color, is laudable.
I'll mention that one of the Parties opposed equal rights for all, didn't want to give up slavery, and supports genocide against blacks to this day. So THAT struggle isn't over.
However, in the context that there must be no difference in health problems between races, or at least a "plan" aka a magic spell must be written, before anyone will be allowed by the Glorious Leader to work for a living? That's not insane. That's fundamentally dishonest.
Not even guys who think they are Napoleon think that Marin County can write a plan to magically make Sickle cell anemia cases be equal between humans of African descent & Chinese descent.
And the ONE thing a government could do, control the diet of everyone except, of course, the Leaders, is more a hypocritical dictatorship than any in human history, although N. Korea's fat God King comes close.
It's not about health. Not about Covid-19. Not even about racism, except how it's being exploited.
A cynic might guess China has ordered the WHO to open the economy so they can get money to buy food to avoid revolt. ( flooding and poor management hammered this year's crops )
All of us are learning about this on the fly. It was a new disease. There are a lot of things we didn’t know.
I love Tucker, but that statement in itself...is wrong.
This is A "coronavirus".
"Coronaviruses (coronaviri?)" have been around for millenia. They cause, among other things, the common cold.
This is not "new".
A new FORM? Maybe. But viruses are not new. Communicable diseases are not new. Coronavirus' are not new.
The science IS there - it's a virus. We know viruses. The family is not new. The theory is not new. We've dealt with viruses - and with CORONAviruses - for centuries.
What they're doing to society...is a bullshit excuse for a power play. And fearmongering.
The changing "science" advice on masks is BS, too. Those things have been around too long for scientists to have not tested the hell out of them and know all about how well they work.
Nationally, during week 40, 2,014,912 specimens were tested for SARS-CoV-2 for diagnostic purposes and 98,338 (4.9%) were positive. This is decreased compared with week 39, during which 5.2% of specimens tested were positive. The percentage of specimens testing positive increased slightly in those aged 5-17 years and those 65 years and older while remaining stable or decreasing in all other age groups