Chinese "Devil Virus" - anyone worried?

[manwithnoname]

So another Chinese pandemic is about to turn the world into a Zombie wasteland, President Xi has declared war and quarantined 50 million people, and BA has suspended all flights in and out of China.

Anyone panicking yet?

I saw a load of Asian tourists on the Tube today, and they were the only ones wearing those facemasks (that don't work).

Yeah, cheers! WE should be the ones in biohazard suits, not you lot, we wouldn't be in this global pandemic situation if you cunts didn't have open-air wild animal meat markets full of rats, bats, snakes and foxes to eat for dinner.

 

[Woland]

It only kills old people, apparently it was developed by a rogue team of black ops remoaners

 

[manwithnoname]

It only kills old people, apparently it was developed by a rogue team of black ops remoaners

Seems a stupid place for the epicentre to be in that case, should have just sat Patient Zero in an Asda coffee shop

 

[Woland]

That would have been too obvious

 

[Holle]

It only kills old people, apparently it was developed by a rogue team of black ops remoaners

Too late then.

 

[manwithnoname]

Or any pub near a railway station that opens at 10am

 

[Mors]

Read somewhere earlier that the boffins say it'll peak in about 10days time.

 

[Rosco]

If a man-coronavirus strain develops I'll be worried.

 

[manwithnoname]

Read somewhere earlier that the boffins say it'll peak in about 10days time.

"Peak" does rather leave itself open to interpretation. Peak as in "worst it will be, then burn out"?

Or peak as in "absolutely everyone dead"?

 

[jon545660]

Coronavirus - Just over 100 dead, all in China. 6k infected.

Ordinary flu - 8,200 dead in the US alone for the past year. About 15 million infected.

 

[manwithnoname]

Coronavirus - Just over 100 dead, all in China. 6k infected.

Ordinary flu - 8,200 dead in the US alone for the past year. About 15 million infected.

It's no Spanish Flu, that's for sure.

It's not even SARS

 

[MomoWASright]

We’re winning the league and we won’t get to see it because we will die by either nuclear war or a cold.

 

[The Nomad]

Coronavirus - Just over 100 dead, all in China. 6k infected.

Ordinary flu - 8,200 dead in the US alone for the past year. About 15 million infected.

Or are China covering it all up?

Tin foil hat time...

 

[6TimesaRed]

It only kills old people, apparently it was developed by a rogue team of black ops remoaners

Then it needs to be exposed in this country...

Kill off all the Tory voters..

 

[Mystic]

Same old shit with these viruses, flu is much worse, but everyone seems to forget is a thing, and thus never bother to get the jab. If someone offered a corona virus jab, there would be queues for miles, it's fucking nonsense.

 

[Mystic]

It only kills old people, apparently it was developed by a rogue team of black ops remoaners

Well, that's politically a less toxic option to deal with aging population pensions than increasing the retirement age is.

 

[Rosco]

Or are China covering it all up?

Tin foil hat time...

More likely that Americans would rather die of flu than from the shock of the hospital bill they'd receive after treatment.

 

[manwithnoname]

Then it needs to be exposed in this country...

Kill off all the Tory voters..

That was the joke he was making you retard

Although it would probably kill off loads of Labour voters who wanted Brexit too

 

[Rosco]

RTE: Dublin City University (DCU) have confirmed a case of coronavirus within the university. Check to follow updates:
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[darkstarexodus]

Coronavirus - Just over 100 dead, all in China. 6k infected.

Ordinary flu - 8,200 dead in the US alone for the past year. About 15 million infected.

Came here to say this.
Unless you live in Wuhan, wouldn't be too worried.

 

[Y1]

Or are China covering it all up?

Tin foil hat time...

China will most likely cover up. The statistics suggest 3% fatality of those positively infected in China. However those infected outside China of more than 100, none has died. Statistically at least 3 should have died outside China?

 

[Athens]

4.6 million people die from air pollution every year. But we still drive diesel vehicles in the city.

It's the fear of a new virus that's driving all this.

 

[StevieM]

I thought a Coronavirus was what you got for drinking shit tasteless Mexican beer.

 

[6TimesaRed]

Cobra meeting

Hancock: “What to do with these expats from China.”
Johnson: “So what areas didn’t vote Tory?”
Hancock: “Liverpool”
Johnson: “To obvious that”
Hancock: “The Wirral?”
Johnson: "that’ll do..


The goes our league title win then...

 

[Karl Hungus]

I thought a Coronavirus was what you got for drinking shit tasteless Mexican beer.

I think you only get it if you drink the beer without limes.

 

[Irishanfield]

I think you only get it if you drink the beer without limes.

If you put lime in your beer you deserve to get the virus

 

[JonesyRed]

The timing of this and the population density means it could get out of hand. Number of cases gone up twenty fold in 9 days.
From a business perspective, starting to be interesting as factories are not reopening post Chinese New year and freight companies are getting massively backed up.

But as others pointed out, more people than this, died in car accidents or shot in the USA.....

 

[Frogfish]

Read somewhere earlier that the boffins say it'll peak in about 10days time.

That's peak in China. Yours hasn't even started yet

 

[Frogfish]

Coronavirus - Just over 100 dead, all in China. 6k infected.

Ordinary flu - 8,200 dead in the US alone for the past year. About 15 million infected.

It's not 8,000 its 80,000 pa (flu, Pneumonia and derivatives).

 

[Frogfish]

Same old shit with these viruses, flu is much worse, but everyone seems to forget is a thing, and thus never bother to get the jab. If someone offered a corona virus jab, there would be queues for miles, it's fucking nonsense.

2019 nCoV is a flu strain