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Chinese "Devil Virus" - anyone worried?

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dantes said:
It is worth remembering that if you were a Chinese citizen, you'd be posting the exact same stuff froggy has. Some sympathy would not be out of line.
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At first I wrote 'Nah, he can go and fuck himself', but then I reconsidered.

Actually, nah. He can go and fuck himself
 
Free market capitalism (it exists, in pockets, in its true form in some parts of China - unlike most nominally 'capitalist' countries which give precedence to intellectual property rights over absolute market freedom)
 
Chinese lanterns. Why have a normal lantern that just sits there, illuminating the room when you can have one that floats away into the aether before falling onto some poor bastards car, and ruining the paintwork?
 
dantes said:
Korean virologists pointed out the virus didn't transmit directly from bat to human. There had to be an intermediate host, which was probably snakes or pangolins.

So bats are back on the menu so long as they aren't left next to rotting snakes.
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Yep. Some dumb fucks keep quacking on about Bats when it's already been conclusively shown the markers in Pangolins are far closer to those in humans and they are the likely source for both bats and humans.

Excellent article here : https://www.sciencedirect.com/scien...QaVGTXOnm7-xvLMxgZIKXRfcPzKTV3OZLzAZdUCJcBeUI
 
Woland said:
The mortality rate of this is at the very least 25 times that of H1N1 and it's twice as infectious. Think that might be why it's being taken about 50 times more seriously.
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It's impossible to say what the mortality rate of C-19 will be until the cycle has run its course because the mortality figure trends higher at the beginning, level's off and then drops off towards the end, with every country's figures varying wildly (I was just reading a piece comparing Germany's unbelievably low rate and Italy's high rate - many factors considered but they concluded they'd likely end up being similar, and much lower than Italy's current rate). All guesswork at this stage though.

As for H1N1 : estimates can run up to x10 higher than the WHO figure (link below) depending on the source:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24302890

However for C-19 the only country which is close to having run its course (assuming no 2nd wave), and that could be credible to this forum, is South Korea where it was 1.5% of infected. However if you choose to believe then there's also this from The Guardian:
What is the mortality rate of the new coronavirus?

It is probably about or a bit less than 1%. Much higher figures have been flying about, but the UK’s chief medical officer, Chris Whitty, is one of those who believes it will prove to be 1% or lower. The World Health Organization’s director general, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, talked of 3.4%, but his figure was calculated by dividing the number of deaths by the number of officially confirmed cases. We know there are many more mild cases that do not get to hospital and are not being counted, which would bring the mortality rate significantly down.
Deaths are highest in the elderly, with very low rates among younger people, although medical staff who treat patients and get exposed to a lot of virus are thought to be more at risk. But even among the over-80s, 90% will recover.
 
Dreambeliever said:
We’ll be at over a Million confirmed cases within a 4 days.
Surely it’s going to obliterate Africa?
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That's what I thought too.

How are all these poor people with no access to clean water supposed to wash their hands all the time? Millions live with their families in small houses, how is social distancing supposed to work there. Moreover there's about 50 million HIV positive people which is a high risk group in Africa.

God knows how this will end.
 
Good news in all this, everyone talks about us being 2 weeks behind Italy. If that is the case, then we are running at a lower rate than them, variation day to day obviously. If Italian deaths stabilise and hopefully fall back, then maybe the UK can ride this out. Lots and lots of work going on vaccine trials and tests going out there. If they can find the effective mass produced home test, shortly, then maybe life will go back to a sense of normality. Data on cases and deaths take from
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

If it has really fucked with my year, finally convinced the family to go to California this year, followed by cycling in the Alps. Currently all in the balance, typical.
 
Holle said:
That's what I thought too.

How are all these poor people with no access to clean water supposed to wash their hands all the time? Millions live with their families in small houses, how is social distancing supposed to work there. Moreover there's about 50 million HIV positive people which is a high risk group in Africa.

God knows how this will end.
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Exactly, although I doubt the data will be very reliable much like China.
 
My local hospital is out of n95 masks, pre peak. It's a free for all with states competing for ppe, and my little state has zero chance.
 
Well... at least we now know who replaced RedNinja as the focus of Manwithnoname’s ire.
 
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