new coronavirus outbreak China, Korea, USA - mod warnings in OP (updated 24/02/20)

cloudatlas · 30-01-2020 02:48PM

ChikiChiki wrote: »

I'd say the risk is probably above low.

Not medium but above low given the rate of infections. Its growing significantly by the day.

In the uk according to a professor of epidemiology.

Kermit.de.frog · 30-01-2020 02:48PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Cooking with only one wok but be an annoyance too - I also love to cook. I have 3 woks.

racist :pac:

30-01-2020 02:53PM

Deleted User wrote: »

I could handle that fine(home alone for weeks).

Same. Spring festival is usually like that anyway. I'm living in the sticks so I tend to stay in my apartment most of the time that I'm not working.

My annoyances would be similar to his, not being able to go out for food: Considering this is the country that invented chinese takeaway, the food you get out and about is phenon-nomnomnom-enal.

I would imagine there's still some street food going on.. which is one of the reasons I continue to live in Xi'an. Far better than takeaways. And having a freezer, it's easy enough to have hot pot at home.. if you can get some decent spices.

I'd be missing the bars.. Not so much the alcohol, but the socialising and female company.

Cooking with only one wok but be an annoyance too - I also love to cook. I have 3 woks.

I've got two hot plates and a small portable oven. Microwave but I rarely use that. TBH I've a 4 types of frying pans rather than a wok.

pc7 · 30-01-2020 02:54PM

Have we anyone left on the thread still in China?

rossie1977 · 30-01-2020 03:07PM

Social media and online video will ramp up fear in a situation like this

We have numerous posts with prediction models which is further spreading panic. This one doesn't show March but another one I saw does and by March 7th over 7 billion predicted to be infected
https://mobile.twitter.com/KEEMSTAR/status/1222395306102247425/photo/1

highgiant1985 · 30-01-2020 03:08PM

a potential case in Dublin report

https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/doctor-tells-high-court-of-potential-coronavirus-case-in-dublin-hospital-978704.html

Call Me Jimmy · 30-01-2020 03:15PM

Seems test kits having trouble getting in

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-swiss-roche/roche-says-closed-chinese-cities-hinder-virus-diagnostics-test-deliveries-idUSKBN1ZT14L?utm_source=reddit.com

There is a mixture of locals taking things into their own hands as well as official roadblocks /quarantines.

Hotels and other buildings being used to quarantine suspected cases according hubei officials.
I've seen mobs attacking homes of suspected infected, + multiple front doors being boarded up and marked, so it's probably better for public order to send suspected to a hotel rather than home.

Fr_Dougal · 30-01-2020 03:17PM

highgiant1985 wrote: »

a potential case in Dublin report

https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/doctor-tells-high-court-of-potential-coronavirus-case-in-dublin-hospital-978704.html

Linked to a court case, I’d put that in the ‘highly unlikely’ category.

BorneTobyWilde · 30-01-2020 03:17PM

Why is it named after a beer, Corona , or is that just a coincidence . “corona beer virus” heavily googled according to google data.
Confusing a lot of people it seems.

givyjoe · 30-01-2020 03:19PM

rossie1977 wrote: »

Social media and online video will ramp up fear in a situation like this

We have numerous posts with prediction models which is further spreading panic. This one doesn't show March but another one I saw does and by March 7th over 7 billion predicted to be infected
https://mobile.twitter.com/KEEMSTAR/status/1222395306102247425/photo/1

7 billion? That's not right. 7 million maybe?

catrat12 · 30-01-2020 03:20PM

Is there many people in quarantine in Ireland who have returned from China and what’s the protocol are they in rooms or hospitals or what’s happening

Call Me Jimmy · 30-01-2020 03:22PM

catrat12 wrote: »

Is there many people in quarantine in Ireland who have returned from China and what’s the protocol are they in rooms or hospitals or what’s happening

Our people from wuhan apparently quarantining in France (not sure if they've arrived)

rossie1977 · 30-01-2020 03:22PM

givyjoe wrote: »

7 billion? That's not right. 7 million maybe?

No its 7 billion

That one I linked has 57 million predicted to be infected by February 21st.

Fr_Dougal · 30-01-2020 03:23PM

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Looking grim over there.

VinLieger · 30-01-2020 03:23PM

catrat12 wrote: »

Is there many people in quarantine in Ireland who have returned from China and what’s the protocol are they in rooms or hospitals or what’s happening

No theres nobody in Ireland currently suspected of having the virus

Call Me Jimmy · 30-01-2020 03:24PM

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

Looking grim over there.

That looks better then what it looked a week ago!

30-01-2020 03:25PM

Call Me Jimmy wrote: »

There is a mixture of locals taking things into their own hands as well as official roadblocks /quarantines.

Can you be more specific about that? Or is it just the militia stepping in?

I've seen mobs attacking homes of suspected infected,

Where?

The idea of mobs of people increases the chance of being infected yourself. Generally speaking Chinese people aren't that idiotic, although it's certainly possible with the seriously poor and uneducated.

IspeakcozIcan · 30-01-2020 03:27PM

catrat12 wrote: »

Is there many people in quarantine in Ireland who have returned from China and what’s the protocol are they in rooms or hospitals or what’s happening

In Waterford, there’s student from Wuhan self-isolating for 14 days. He just arrived a few days ago to study in the WIT and is not leaving his room. Not a great way to start off your Erasmus! But obviously has to be done.

givyjoe · 30-01-2020 03:28PM

rossie1977 wrote: »

No its 7 billion

That one I linked has 57 million predicted to be infected by February 21st.

No way is almost every single person on the planet going to end up infected.

CrankyHaus · 30-01-2020 03:28PM

givyjoe wrote: »

7 billion? That's not right. 7 million maybe?

That's nothing. I've been crunching numbers and I can state with 96.7% certainty that we'll have 10 Billion cases by April.

thecretinhop · 30-01-2020 03:29PM

paddys day cud be right in the sweet spot if this thing gets hold

30-01-2020 03:30PM

rossie1977 wrote: »

Social media and online video will ramp up fear in a situation like this

We have numerous posts with prediction models which is further spreading panic. This one doesn't show March but another one I saw does and by March 7th over 7 billion predicted to be infected
https://mobile.twitter.com/KEEMSTAR/status/1222395306102247425/photo/1

KEEMSTAR, the King of Youtube ****-stirrers...

circadian · 30-01-2020 03:30PM

CrankyHaus wrote: »

That's nothing. I've been crunching numbers and I can state with 96.7% certainty that we'll have 10 Billion cases by April.

I wonder how Elon is getting on with his rocket to Mars.

givyjoe · 30-01-2020 03:30PM

thecretinhop wrote: »

paddys day cud be right in the sweet spot if this thing gets hold

Holiday booked to NYC for that week. If it could hold off til after then, that would be grrrrrrreat.

Duke of Url · 30-01-2020 03:31PM

CrankyHaus wrote: »

That's nothing. I've been crunching numbers and I can state with 96.7% certainty that we'll have 10 Billion cases by April.

Did you take into consideration the people on the Space Station contracting the virus?

Fr_Dougal · 30-01-2020 03:31PM

Call Me Jimmy wrote: »

That looks better then what it looked a week ago!

Hospital workers in Wuhan are wearing adult diapers because they don't have time to use the bathroom in between treating coronavirus patients, The Washington Post reported last week.

Medical workers are also wearing diapers so they don't have to take off their hazmat suits — those who rip them while taking them off may not get a new one amid supply shortages.

Not quite...

Snow Garden · 30-01-2020 03:31PM

CrankyHaus wrote: »

That's nothing. I've been crunching numbers and I can state with 96.7% certainty that we'll have 10 Billion cases by April.

Any chance of a graph or bar chart with strong colours? I'd settle for a pie chart.

Call Me Jimmy · 30-01-2020 03:33PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Can you be more specific about that? Or is it just the militia stepping in?

Where?

The idea of mobs of people increases the chance of being infected yourself. Generally speaking Chinese people aren't that idiotic, although it's certainly possible with the seriously poor and uneducated.

Hmmm didn't necessarily seem like militia, but wouldn't rule it out. A lot of the time it looked like a mixture of locals, manning different levels of 'checkpoint' (concrete walls, mounds of dirt/rocks/ materials). No idea where they are exactly, seems to be all types of locations from rural villages to parts of cities.

Yes the chinese aren't idiotic, but these did seem like a more provincial area or suburb... but this kind of experiment has never been played out on a population. We all suspect that these types of things will take hold in the collective psyche, it's not about whether someone's smart, people can become irrational no matter what kind of degree they have.

IspeakcozIcan · 30-01-2020 03:33PM

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/30/disabled-teenager-in-china-dies-at-home-alone-after-relatives-quarantined

God this is really tragic.

BLIZZARD7 · 30-01-2020 03:34PM

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

Why is it named after a beer, Corona , or is that just a coincidence . “corona beer virus” heavily googled according to google data.
Confusing a lot of people it seems.

It's actually called Ncov-2019 which is a type of coronavirus, a coronavirus is named as such because at the particle level it looks like the corona around the Sun. Corona means halo/crown in Latin.

Mers/SARS etc were all from the Coronavirus family.

new coronavirus outbreak China, Korea, USA - mod warnings in OP (updated 24/02/20)

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