Official Thread: Coronavirus "COVID-19"
 

https://www.businessinsider.com/wuha...re-city-2020-1

Wuhan, China, is about to be quarantined as the coronavirus outbreak grows. The city has 3 million more residents than New York City.

That's a very bold step, when was the last time an entire city was quarantined?

It's like they aren't letting on how bad it really is.

It's been confirmed in Washington state too.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/21/h...ronavirus.html

No one needs this ****

Activate ebola protocol:

Stop eating carbs.

https://geekculture.co/resident-evil...familiar-logo/

:hmm:

Guess where I live?

Guess where my wife works?

FML

I..... can't think of one? Certainly it's never happened to a city anywhere near this big, at least.








Honestly, though, good. I'm glad they're taking containing the spread of it seriously. I hope the quarantine doesn't have to last for long and this doesn't lead to problems with people getting food, treatment, or other necessities. China has a bit of a history with understating medical issues, and it's good to see more decisive steps being taken. Since we don't really know how bad the virus can be, keeping it contained is sort of the best we can hope for if it has real epidemic potential.


From the initial stuff I've seen, it certainly doesn't seem to be as deadly or virulent as ebola (a very good thing), but it certainly doesn't have to be to cause major problems in population centers. It's spread a bit around the globe, but hopefully this kind of action will encourage others to screen and seek treatment if they show symptoms to limit the spread elsewhere.

3% mortality rate is not good, but it's not Spanish Flu levels (10-20%)

Quarantining an entire city is scary in this day and age. Hopefully it can be contained.

Getting worse.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-c...-idUSKBN1ZM087

China orders 'unprecedented' lockdown of two cities at virus epicenter


The way things are snowballing we are going to find out the infection rate is much worse then they have been telling people and or the death rate.

Yeah, this is worrying. I wouldn't be surprised if China is hiding stuff and when it comes out claims they didn't notice that...

:bleh:

Chinese Racoon city?

best way to test a bio-weapon? release and see how efficacious it is:hmm:

Amazing in this day and age. How do you lock down a city? I am sure people are leaking out like crazy.

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Read a couple article saying this is spreading from fish (and people) and now they think it started from snakes.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/snakes-co...200323343.html

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...-2020-n1120686

It's still spreading. And I have 5 very efficient virus magnets (grandkids) :runaway:

Seven cities now have transport bans in place.

:runaway:

https://www.caixinglobal.com/2020-01...101505300.html

So this is how the zombie apocalypse begins. Either that or the world is about to be taken over by apes. :bleh:

Is it time for a rewatch?

The flu kills tens of thousands every year. We'll see what happens.

she should turn around so we can see the other end :hmm:

According to some quick research, here and here

Flu infects about 8% of people in freedom land. Mortality is then about 0.25% average.

In contrast this virus seems to be at about 3% mortality, which is 10x more deadly than the current flu virus average. So I do think this is cause for concern.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...us-animal.html



:runaway: :runaway: :runaway:

We need to lower the population anyway.

Let nature do it's thing

That is assuming its not man made. :bleh:

https://www.sciencealert.com/scienti...rus-on-us-soil
ok

can someone stop by and mow the lawn once in awhile


I will be under the house :bleh:


…….
quarantine China now for the next 80 years :bleh:

Why does it seem like all these ****ing illnesses come from ****ing China?

because they are

China is a overpopulated incubator for diseases

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/so...se-development

Oh China what will you export next.

No its because they have open markets and animal rearing rules that are pretty weak for meats from various animals we dont usually eat in the west.

Spanish flu had 5% death rates and that was bad enough as flu can easily infect most of the population in short time. But we should have a vaccine for this soon and those who are regularly vaccinated for the flu get an accumulation of resistance to families of viruses...


As for overpopulation we dont have it. Look at Australia fires that killed an approximate 1 billion animals. If billions of animals can live, hunt, graze and gather on the relatively small edges of the mostly arid australian desert Im sure humans can provide for plenty more humans with our modern means.

Not only is there ample room for more people we need to make the population younger.

https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...tralian-summer

2 tourists have been suspected to have been infected by the virus in Finland now - both from China (Wuhan area)

****ing chinese.