Coronavirus Part III - 9 cases across the Island - 503 errors abound!! *read OP*

fritzelly

Go China Go China - 11 new cases outside Hubei and no deaths

https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1234633516350087174

The dead will be rising next week

SafeSurfer

fritzelly wrote: »

Go China Go China - 11 new cases outside Hubei and no deaths

https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1234633516350087174

The dead will be rising next week

Right up there with Nigerian princes and one hundred million dollars in a Swiss bank account!

digitaldr

This very long video from the lead of the WHO mission to China is very informative. He answers a lot of the common questions eg can people without symptoms transmit COVID-19?
Ans: Very rarely so are not a significant driver of spread.

Unfortunately to get the most out of it's best to watch it to the end.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-o0q1XMRKYM

solidasarock

Will their be any EU level crisis meetings to come up with a plan to tackle this?

Because it seems counties that have been hit hard are struggling to cope and those that haven't been hit like us are more then too happy to act like business as usual until we get overwhelmed too.

God damn, some pro active basic checks at airports could probably go a long way. Especially with patricks day about to flood the streets with tourists

Quantum Erasure

"flatten the curve"

Sawduck

Been having pains in my lungs for the past two nights, it's probably just my asthma acting up but hearing people mention clonmel today got me a bit worried since I'm just up the road from there but it seems like that was just nonsense, hope this virus fecks off soon

sReq | uTeK

Logical thing to do now is move to China

fritzelly

sReq | uTeK wrote: »

Logical thing to do now is move to China

Siberia has no cases but...

Spanish Eyes

Tierra del Fuego looking very clean too.

fr336

Anyone know off the top of their head how many cases China had before they started locking everything down?

digitaldr

sReq | uTeK wrote: »

Logical thing to do now is move to China

Funny you should say that - the WHO guy in the video I linked to above said that if he was critically ill with COVID-19 that's where he would want to be as they're are now very good at keeping the sickest people alive. For this reason mortality rates inside China may not be comparable to those outside.

digitaldr

fr336 wrote: »

Anyone know off the top of their head how many cases China had before they started locking everything down?

China was a whole different ball game as they never really had imported cases although they're starting to get a few now!

Cupatae

Computer Science Student wrote: »

Why would this end Trump? People say this all the time and he just proves to be a class act again and again, completely resilient to the liberal media agenda.

It's the cool hip thing to do these days bash auld Trump , no matter what he does he LL never be given a fair shake ,

Ikozma

Is it gone yet?

ArchXStanton

I have my doomsday place sorted..

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerguelen_Islands


"The Kerguelen Islands (/kərˈɡeɪlən/ or /ˈkɜːrɡələn/;[2] in French commonly Îles Kerguelen but officially Archipel des Kerguelen, pronounced [kɛʁɡelɛn]), also known as the Desolation Islands , are a group of islands in the Antarctic constituting one of the two exposed parts of the Kerguelen Plateau, a large igneous province mostly submerged by the southern Indian Ocean. They are among the most isolated places on Earth

fritzelly

ArchXStanton wrote: »

I have my doomsday place sorted..

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerguelen_Islands


"The Kerguelen Islands (/kərˈɡeɪlən/ or /ˈkɜːrɡələn/;[2] in French commonly Îles Kerguelen but officially Archipel des Kerguelen, pronounced [kɛʁɡelɛn]), also known as the Desolation Islands , are a group of islands in the Antarctic constituting one of the two exposed parts of the Kerguelen Plateau, a large igneous province mostly submerged by the southern Indian Ocean. They are among the most isolated places on Earth

How are ye gonna get Tayto delivered there tell me (unless you're that millionaire guy on the ads)

fr336

I've moved through several stages with this crap - nervousness, anxiety, panic, preperation for the inevitable. I've now moved onto anger and defiance.

italodisco

Kaisr Sose wrote: »

Based on what you juat wrote there, there is no way someone like you should be allowed a firearms license.

As a former military man I'm highly concerned that someone with such an unstable mind had access to licenced firearms.

A week in the Central African Republic is badly needed, you'll not be so cocky afterwards

cameramonkey

https://www.vox.com/2020/3/2/21161067/coronavirus-covid19-china

wrote:

It’s a million-dollar question. There are three possibilities: Kids don’t get infected for some reason; they get infected but have a low expression of disease; they get infected and express disease like everyone else but we haven’t seen it because of schools being closed. I think the first and last aren’t the reality. So it’s that middle group.

There are a couple of theories going around [to explain this]. The receptors [Covid-19] binds to in the lungs aren’t very mature in children. But the reality is we see this phenomenon up to 90 years of age, so that sounds unlikely. Second, maybe the four coronaviruses that cause colds confer some temporary immunity in kids. But then why aren’t the elderly [protected]?

We’ve got to get an antibody test [to test the population for antibodies to the virus] to know if kids are driving the epidemic and we just can’t see it.

Good article about China, blows away many of the misconceptions about numbers and China hiding them . The last line in the article is a little strange, I think he means are children may be asymptomatic and spreading the virus but not becoming ill. That would be some turn up for the books, kids killing their parents, its a nightmare situation.

fritzelly

Kids will be the death of us

Cuckoo7

Village of the damned.

On the Claire Byrne show, when he was saying that children aren't being badly affected and almost no deaths in children, Claire asked "can't they be super spreaders though?" And he said yes they can.

But the families of these potential super spreaders don't need to isolate themselves?

fritzelly

The Seven Stages of Coronavirus denial

1. We're an island, we can't catch it
2. You can only catch it abroad
3. It only affects the old ones
4. There's a low risk of cross contamination
5. Only 15% of people get really sick
6. Its just the flu
7. Cannot believe I'm still ali...

Feel free to build on it.

digitaldr

Deleted User wrote: »

On the Claire Byrne show, when he was saying that children aren't being badly affected and almost no deaths in children, Claire asked "can't they be super spreaders though?" And he said yes they can.

But the families of these potential super spreaders don't need to isolate themselves?

I missed that bit but evidence from China would not support it.

wakka12

fr336 wrote: »

Anyone know off the top of their head how many cases China had before they started locking everything down?

550 and 17 deaths

fr336

wakka12 wrote: »

550 and 17 deaths

Excellent thanks. So China knew where this was going. Italy and co not so much.

fr336

fritzelly wrote: »

3. It only affects the old ones

This is mainly true though, hence we get the same old cliche coming on here saying what's the world come to, most of us will just have mild symptoms if any what's the big deal? For anyone over 60 it could be a very big deal. And the economic and social implications for the rest of us....

05eaftqbrs9jlh

wakka12 wrote: »

550 and 17 deaths

Well that horse has well and truly bolted for Europe.

macwal

fr336 wrote: »

I've moved through several stages with this crap - nervousness, anxiety, panic, preperation for the inevitable. I've now moved onto anger and defiance.

I've always had the Ivan Drago view about it...

J Mysterio

Hurrache wrote: »

These guys are working on the solution as we speak, wonder how long it'll take to get a reply
https://twitter.com/thomaschattwill/status/1234252762055090176?s=19

I'm not religous, but nevertheless find it unbelievable that this awful human calls himself a Christian. Shame on him.