Coronavirus Pandemic

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We’re overdue one eh, nature was always gonna punish us for allowing depravity to perpetuate in these non-human animal markets..

Will this be a proper one with steaming piles of cadavers that scientists been saying we are due.. or contained jobbie like SARS ? A 14 day incubation and confirmed person to person transmission, mutating in the wild... could be a good cull on the cards!! R-naught of 3-5 should ensure it spreads rapid

Had that H1N1 Swine Flu in 09.. (issued the antiviral treatment which was rationed by 111 - but only after 48 hrs so ... pointless! didn’t collect it).. That flavour H1N1 was very bad, but this 2019-nCoV variant looks to kick in with a good dose of pneumonia. Death rate seems low, but a lot of people in critical condition..

Just don’t be that dick who walks around coughing open mouthed, yer goz travels 30ft ..

[gilesgoat]

My bro works in a certain research field.

"People in certain fields" seems to know VERY WELL that "all that next stuff is going to come from China and is unavoidable" and it's mostly about "uses of certain farming intensive techniques".

It's not "divine punishment" or stuff like that but it's truly "overabuse/misuse of stuff that should NOT be done like that", you mess up with shit that you should not do, at some point you'll get shit in return as well, as simple as that.

So yeah "mostly" humans problems are .. created by humans ..

[RiK]

It's fine. I was vaccinated as a kid.

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Always remember the 'pop man' coming round once a week.. :-)

[merman]

There's a meme going around along there were epidemics in 1720, 1820 and 1920 (the global influenza epidemic). Given modern travel and advances in medicine, it's difficult to tell if we are more or less likely to see deaths on the scale of those three occasions.

[Little stoned kiwi]

I'd say less. People die from complications (such as pneumonia as you mention) which are more treatable than when pandemics such as the Spanish Flu struck.
Vulnerable people will be the ones to die. Old, young, already affected by other health concerns, etc.
The assumption this happens every 100 years is a dangerous oversimplification of the problem. It's just China's most recent export and there will be more to come.

[melkig1967]

Definitley less; I'd be surpsrised if this kills more than 2k (bird flu managed 800)

Spanish Flu killed at least 50million so there's quite a way to go I'd say...

[snaff]

No harm in stocking up on any tinned food that you would eat anyway.

[Deckard]

Looking forward to seeing the anti-vaxxers in the USA refuse the vaccine. I presume there is no anti vax movement in China ?

[zip accident]

Looking forward to seeing the anti-vaxxers in the USA refuse the vaccine. I presume there is no anti vax movement in China ?

It's doubtful there will be a vaccine in time for the first round. That said, the virus doesn't seem that severe, the black death killed most of those it infected, by the numbers released so far this seems to be killing less than one in a hundred. It could be it's a really long disease and it's detectable a long time before it kills, but otherwise it seems to be little more dangerous than measles.

[PFVA]

When i hear Corona i still think of this:



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_in_Mexico


Although today i went to Lisbon and i crossed path with a group of 2 dozen Asian tourist, not sure if fm China or Korea and the thought of "oh no, i hope they're not spreading the corona virus" crossed my mind. It's not fair with them but with so much fuss in the media one automatically starts thinking that kind of thing.