Coronavirus COVID-19

Me, in a Chinese restaurant trying to order a raw chicken

I've spent half a day today at various international airports so here's hoping

Has anyone made a beer joke yet? Actually I wonder if Corona has had an uptick of sales this past week.

  On 1/29/2020 at 7:54 AM, Brisbot said:

Has anyone made a beer joke yet? Actually I wonder if Corona has had an uptick of sales this past week.

I prefer my Corona virus relaxing on a beach in Mexico. 

  On 1/29/2020 at 8:01 AM, yekker said:

I prefer my Corona virus relaxing on a beach in Mexico. 

Heard Corona is changing their name to Ebola Extra avoid association with the coronavirus.

  On 1/26/2020 at 6:56 AM, dr lopez said:

So if the mortality rate is low and would only affect the infirm and elderly... are you saying we could eliminate boomers and OAPs in a few months????

I plan to snog as many celestials as possible on my way home from Thailand this weekend, then do a full national tour of old folks homes when I get back to the UK. Let's have a clear out of all these auld cunts

You sound like a boomer born in the wrong decade! 

Woops I meant snog as many chinamen as possible, sorry for any offence

It's all laughs and jokes now.... but just wait another month....

news this morning is 132 confirmed deaths, with approximately 6,000 confirmed cases...that ratio seems a bit high for what is being suggested is just a relatively survivable virus (most deaths being elderly/otherwise at-risk persons of course). the 6,000 confirmed could be under or far under the actual number of persons with the virus, some amount being unconfirmed and some amount being absolutely unknown. 

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-hubei-cases/japan-u-s-pull-nationals-from-china-as-virus-toll-jumps-idUSKBN1ZR2VG

if that 6.000 is indeed far below the real number, the consequence would most likely be that the risk of dying is even lower than it currently seems to be. if thats the case, most people with the virus just have some kind of unreported flu and think nothing of it. It's the severe cases that get reported.

I always liked Modelovirus better tbqh imo

My, my, my, aye-aye, whoa!
M-m-m-my Corona

Also with people being told to stay at home, I would suggest there may be some people dead that havn't been found yet.  Mebbe.

  On 1/29/2020 at 1:34 PM, goDel said:

if that 6.000 is indeed far below the real number, the consequence would most likely be that the risk of dying is even lower than it currently seems to be. if thats the case, most people with the virus just have some kind of unreported flu and think nothing of it. It's the severe cases that get reported.

As happened with MERS and SARS.

Given how much our population has increased, with cities where more than ten million people live in close proximity, I'd say we've been getting off lightly as far as deadly epidemics are concerned.

One of these days something like Ebola is going to originate in one of the world's well connected megacities and when that happens ... oh boy!

I’m glad that China is actually enforcing lockdowns and quarantines, unlike Congolese Ebola outbreaks, where one of the deadliest viral pathogens in the world is treated with the same concern as bronchitis.

  On 1/29/2020 at 10:53 AM, Soloman Tump said:

It's all laughs and jokes now.... but just wait another month....

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That man simply is not equipped to hold that much fruit. 

And speaking of the virus. I am kinda tired of seeing the news over-play these kinds of things. It could become an issue worldwide, but more people have probably died from falling refrigerators in the past week than the virus. I remember when there were a few dozen cases of Ebola in the news here in Texas and they didn't stop reporting it.

  On 1/29/2020 at 5:08 PM, drillkicker said:

I’m glad that China is actually enforcing lockdowns and quarantines, unlike Congolese Ebola outbreaks, where one of the deadliest viral pathogens in the world is treated with the same concern as bronchitis.

Not sure that's fair. Congo is barely functioning as a state.

When it comes to enforcing anything in that place, the question "You and whose army?" has dozens if not hundreds of possible answers.

  On 1/29/2020 at 1:34 PM, goDel said:

if that 6.000 is indeed far below the real number, the consequence would most likely be that the risk of dying is even lower than it currently seems to be. if thats the case, most people with the virus just have some kind of unreported flu and think nothing of it. It's the severe cases that get reported.

I’m saying that the number of dead vs the number of cases seems high, not low. I mean idk the numbers of people who get colds/flus compared to those who get it and die, but would’ve though it’d be more like one for every few thousand infected. Idk those numbers for similar viruses/contagions necessarily either, just thinking out loud here really

-The Wuhan coronavirus has hit Xinjiang, where China has imprisoned at least 1 million Uighur Muslims. Its filthy detention camps will make inmates sitting ducks.-


https://www.businessinsider.com/wuhan-coronavirus-xinjiang-uighur-squalid-detention-camps-2020-1

  On 1/29/2020 at 6:19 PM, auxien said:

I’m saying that the number of dead vs the number of cases seems high, not low. I mean idk the numbers of people who get colds/flus compared to those who get it and die, but would’ve though it’d be more like one for every few thousand infected. Idk those numbers for similar viruses/contagions necessarily either, just thinking out loud here really

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Fatality Rate (case fatality ratio or CFR) of 2019-nCoV

The novel coronavirus' case fatality rate is currently estimated at around 3%^[9] (between 2% and 4%). 

For comparison, the case fatality rate with seasonal flu is less than 0.01% (1 death per every 10,000 cases)^[7].Fatality rate for SARS was 10%, and for MERS 34%. 

^sounds closer to what I was thinking for the flu yeah, minuscule number of those who get it. didn’t realize SARS and MERS were that bad tho damn

  On 1/29/2020 at 5:19 PM, Brisbot said:

That man simply is not equipped to hold that much fruit. 

And speaking of the virus. I am kinda tired of seeing the news over-play these kinds of things. It could become an issue worldwide, but more people have probably died from falling refrigerators in the past week than the virus. I remember when there were a few dozen cases of Ebola in the news here in Texas and they didn't stop reporting it.

the chinese government isn't overplaying it, they're massively under reporting it. you know they still went ahead with a 100k person banquet in wuhan for celebrations a week after the first death from the virus was recorded? they arrested ppl and journalists who reported about the virus...absolutely fucked up.

also, why not err on the side of caution when charting unknown territory with viruses. we havent seen this one b4, although we do know its in the same family as SARS, but why would you NOT be overly cautious when viruses could proliferate at such a rapid rate?

  On 1/29/2020 at 5:08 PM, drillkicker said:

I’m glad that China is actually enforcing lockdowns and quarantines, unlike Congolese Ebola outbreaks, where one of the deadliest viral pathogens in the world is treated with the same concern as bronchitis.

you should not be lauding the chinese government for doing anything, they have handled this situation embarrassingly bad

  On 1/29/2020 at 8:31 PM, Bodhidharma said:

also, why not err on the side of caution when charting unknown territory with viruses. we havent seen this one b4, although we do know its in the same family as SARS, but why would you NOT be overly cautious when viruses could proliferate at such a rapid rate?

Because shutting down society is a very drastic step to take. People will have no income, no food (after a while), no services, etc, all of which could itself very well cause loss of life. Not something you want to be responsible for unless you’re fairly certain it’s absolutely necessary.

Ex-pat living in China has a run down on China covering up info