Corona Virus

[graham59]

Hysteria aside,  for comparison purposes.... I wonder how many people died from the 'normal' flu in the United States last year ?  

[Dave Hounddriver]

18 minutes ago, Marvin Boggs said:

1) afraid to seek medical attention for fear of being a pariah;

That is a helluva good point.  After seeing the way the Philippines is reacting to people who came close to someone who they think had the Corona virus there is no way I would go to a doctor if I thought I had it.  I'd stay home and ride it out.  Betcha lots are doing the same.  Or just going about their business and doing their coughing discretely.

[OnMyWay]

I think many of you will find this talk very interesting and hopefully more fact filled that getting the latest news on Facebook!  It is long and I am less than half way through it.

 

 

[Mike J]

8 hours ago, graham59 said:

Hysteria aside,  for comparison purposes.... I wonder how many people died from the 'normal' flu in the United States last year ?  

Source: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html

 

[Snowy79]

Have you thought of sending your family on an extended holiday to Wuhan Steve? 

[Marvin Boggs]

20 hours ago, GeoffH said:

One thing that applies to the Wuhan Corona virus that isn't shown on charts like that (useful though they are) is the fact that this Corona virus is infectious before being symptomatic.  That means people who appear healthy, who feel healthy and who test healthy using temperature checks can actually be contagious.

That makes containment more difficult...

I saw a really informative vid that breaks it down into layman's terms.  For 'transmissivity', its like this:  An infected person walks into a room of 10 people.  If 1 person or less gets infected (transmissivity of 1) then the virus can be expected to die out naturally.  Above 1, and it can be expected to multiply in any given population.  Corona is around a 3 right now I believe, i.e. 3 of those people in the room would get infected.  

Combined with what you point out, i.e. it has a 5-day latency where you can be walking around and infecting people while showing no signs at all.  Another 4-5 days while you are getting sick but aren't yet worried.  And another 5 days before you may wind up in a doctor's office.  So 10-15 days walking around infecting people with a 3+ transmissivity.  THAT is the danger.  The fatality rate, if it is around 5%, is also damned high.  Its too early to tell since we don't have accurate numbers from the chinese.  Watch the news from Western countries carefully in the next few days. 

[Dave Hounddriver]

15 minutes ago, Marvin Boggs said:

we don't have accurate numbers from the chinese.

Are you suggesting they gave us the Wong numbers?

[intrepid]

1 hour ago, Marvin Boggs said:

 The fatality rate, if it is around 5%, is also damned high.  Its too early to tell since we don't have accurate numbers from the chinese.  Watch the news from Western countries carefully in the next few days. 

Here is an article suggesting just that;

https://www.foxnews.com/media/china-falsifying-coronavirus-death-toll

[Arizona Kid]

FYI I ordered some masks on Lazada yesterday. I'm too old to worry about it but I wanted to get some for my GF and my son. They are made in China so I don't know if I will get them or not.

[bastonjock]

Theres a video that's been pulled from Facebook 

It clearly shows one individual collapsing and then goes on the.show a chinese health worker ,speaking in their language with english sub titles 

The video if it's TRUE is very scarey she claims that there are 90,000 people in china with the virus and the death told is much higher than is being reported

Dont think I can load it up here or I would