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

04-02-2020 10:48AM

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

Chinese Communist Party and their leader is looking mighty weak

Agreed. I'm hearing a lot more anger and criticism of the government that I would ever have heard previously. Both the local government and Beijing. The distinction is important because usually people would be angry at one or the other.

Take this new crazy angle to kill off peoples pets. Posters here go on about the eating of dog like it's a common thing, but Chinese people adore their pets. My friends who are married to Chinese women, all "laugh" at the scaling of affection in women's minds. Children, pets, parents, husband. It's a regular joke to be heard by those married in China. And it's true in a way. Their pets (mostly cats and dogs, sometimes pigeons, or snakes) are incredibly important to them. [I'm talking about the Chinese over 30.. young people rarely have any true affection for their pets].

In any case, between the negligence of local officials recommending medicine that doesn't work, the ineptitude of quarantine decisions or the new command to reduce the pet population (on the assumption that pets might transfer the virus), the government is generating a crap ton of negative attitudes that are unlikely to disappear quickly.

I've never believed that Chinese people wanted democracy, or the claims by posters from western countries harping on about the fall of the Chinese regime, but I can definitely see the seeds of their destruction being sown now during this crisis. They're behaving in such a retarded fashion which is surprising since they're usually pretty good at manipulating their own peoples buttons.

Absolutely crazy.

odyssey06 · 04-02-2020 10:48AM

wakka12 wrote: »

Latest death reports make it look increasingly likely this is no more dangerous than the flu. The death rate outside Hubei remains at just 0.3%. Though in the city of Wuhan it is very high, sitting almost at SARS level, 5.5%, with a 25% severe complication rate.

That suggests to me it is infecting in such large numbers that it is overwhelming the capacity of medical services to deal with the complication rate?

04-02-2020 10:55AM

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

It is FAR more serious than the CCP wants the world to know. But we know.

No, you suspect. It's a pretty decent suspicion, but within the same post you mentioned about "fact"... at least be consistent and accurate in what you say.

Fact is... we don't know that the Chinese are being inaccurate on purpose, or whether they're inaccurate due to other reasons.

I suspect that there's a lot of confusion over there simply because they don't have the infrastructure in place to deal with this kind of thing. It's easy to sit back and judge when your own environment isn't under the same circumstances. I also suspect that the local party government officials are releasing inaccurate numbers to reduce their responsibility for what's happened.

But, sure, they could be lying through their teeth. We just don't know.

joseywhales · 04-02-2020 10:56AM

Do we know if there are confirmed deaths that resulted from h2h contact?

The potency of the disease seems very different for those originally infected in Wuhan, to those secondary infections.

Or at least i hope so, it is possible that the life cycle of the disease is much longer, perhaps it lasts for 2 months?! Do we know from those who have recovered when they were originally infected?

it's a giant information vacuum.

04-02-2020 11:01AM

joseywhales wrote: »

Do we know if there are confirmed deaths that resulted from h2h contact?

The potency of the disease seems very different for those originally infected in Wuhan, to those secondary infections.

Or at least i hope so, it is possible that the life cycle of the disease is much longer, perhaps it lasts for 2 months?! Do we know from those who have recovered when they were originally infected?

it's a giant information vacuum.

The two deaths outside China were from people who were in Wuhan. As for deaths from h2h contact, that would be equal to total deaths minus one I guess. We don't know how many got directly exposed.

babybuilder · 04-02-2020 11:04AM

joseywhales wrote: »

Do we know if there are confirmed deaths that resulted from h2h contact?

The potency of the disease seems very different for those originally infected in Wuhan, to those secondary infections.

Or at least i hope so, it is possible that the life cycle of the disease is much longer, perhaps it lasts for 2 months?! Do we know from those who have recovered when they were originally infected?

it's a giant information vacuum.

That's my concern also. In one case, I think it was the German 33 yr old male, who tested positive for the virus when he recovered post symptomatic. Let's be honest here there is no way the Chinese as authorities would have reacted the way they have done unless this the the mother of all outbreaks. I pity the Chinese in those areas and those now in India. I really hope that we don't get a major outbreak here.

wakka12 · 04-02-2020 11:08AM

joseywhales wrote: »

Do we know if there are confirmed deaths that resulted from h2h contact?

The potency of the disease seems very different for those originally infected in Wuhan, to those secondary infections.

Or at least i hope so, it is possible that the life cycle of the disease is much longer, perhaps it lasts for 2 months?! Do we know from those who have recovered when they were originally infected?

it's a giant information vacuum.

The vast majority of cases now today have had no history with the food market anymore so I presume at least some of the deaths are the result of h2h. There are too many of them now for it all to be linked directly to the market

Duke of Url · 04-02-2020 11:08AM

The first US confirmed case has been discharged from hospital in Washington state.

04-02-2020 11:13AM

babybuilder wrote: »

Let's be honest here there is no way the Chinese as authorities would have reacted the way they have done unless this the the mother of all outbreaks.

"Y2K was an over-hyped false scare. Sure nothing happened. What a waste of time and money. "

"All this money wasted on counter-terrorism. Sure there are fek all terrorist attacks."

"there is no way the Chinese as authorities would have reacted the way they have done unless this the the mother of all outbreaks."

We won't know for a while yet but it is actually pretty plausible that China's reaction prevented the mother of all outbreaks rather than it just being the result of one that they're keeping quiet. Time will tell.

circadian · 04-02-2020 11:23AM

Have any of our esteemed political leaders said anything about this or are they all busy electioneering?

Duke of Url · 04-02-2020 11:26AM

Deleted User wrote: »

"Y2K was an over-hyped false scare. Sure nothing happened. What a waste of time and money. "

"All this money wasted on counter-terrorism. Sure there are fek all terrorist attacks."

"there is no way the Chinese as authorities would have reacted the way they have done unless this the the mother of all outbreaks."

We won't know for a while yet but it is actually pretty plausible that China's reaction prevented the mother of all outbreaks rather than it just being the result of one that they're keeping quiet. Time will tell.

Did you see anything like this where you are?

Signs outside restaurants in Hoi An, Vietnam, taken in January 2020.

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/31/asia/wuhan-coronavirus-racism-fear-intl-hnk/index.html

04-02-2020 11:27AM

Duke of Url wrote: »

Did you see anything like this where you are?

Signs outside restaurants in Hoi An, Vietnam, taken in January 2020.

No, but I'm not in a tourist area, or a place where Chinese people live.

Fr_Dougal · 04-02-2020 11:32AM

Only 26 cases in Europe seems to be fairly well contained and the number isn’t rising quickly.

gozunda · 04-02-2020 11:40AM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

If you don't put the numbers together, then there are something like 18,000 to 25,000 people in China in very serious condition requiring intensive medical care, but 75% of them are unreported or choosing to stay at home and die.

If you put them together, 5,000 people out of 20,000 are in serious condition, and another 55,000 to 80,000 are either unreported or are staying at home.Pick whichever one you want to believe. It makes not a single iota of difference to me.

Nothing to do with believing anything. The estimated figure of total cases is just that- estimated. The 25% with "severe symptoms" are based on current confirmed case afaik. As stated little use adding two different figures and getting a Heinz 57 result.

Hande hoche! · 04-02-2020 11:48AM

1800_Ladladlad wrote: »

That's the spirit. Watching contagion myself.

Ordered the blu ray of outbreak. Think Contagion might be on Netflix Ireland, not 100% on that.

megatron989 · 04-02-2020 11:49AM

Was only a few weeks ago that their where only a handful of cases in china, look how that turned out within a month. People act like it's grand, but imo we would need a miracle to dodge this bullet. The current infected outside of china have the luxury of well equiped hospitals and staff to care for them. What happens when the numbers of infected needing emergency help reaches, I dunno, 1000? 500?
If we had 50 here it would cripple our system never mind 500. Hospitals bursting at the seams as it is.
I'd say if it comes to Ireland, once it lands it'll be loose and their will be no stopping it until it burns out.
It's that exponential growth that scares me. Once she gets going your in trouble.

wakka12 · 04-02-2020 12:03PM

More drastic government measures around the world
Singapore bans all school assemblies, camps, mass celebrations and other large group and communal activities from Wednesday (Feb 5)

https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/coronavirus-assemblies-and-other-large-group-activities-in-schools-and-pre-schools-to-be

beans · 04-02-2020 12:15PM

Have any of the deaths been ethnically non-Chinese?

Yurt2 · 04-02-2020 12:19PM

Another case in S Korea. Korean national who returned from Thailand on the 19th. Unclear if the h2h transmission happened in Thailand or Korea; looking like Thailand so far as the person is in a city with no previous cases.

wakka12 · 04-02-2020 12:24PM

http://www.inmi.it/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Bollettino-medico-numero-5.pdf
Both cases in Italy have been rushed to intensive care for respiratory failure

Medical bulletin number 5 - February 4th, 2020

The two Chinese citizens from Wuhan city that tested positive for the new coronavirus, currently hospitalized at the National Institute for Infectious Diseases, in the last hours have had an aggravation of clinical conditions due to respiratory failure, as in other similar cases reported so far.

Therefore respiratory support in the intensive therapy unit was needed.

The patients are monitored continuously and undergo all treatments, including experimental antiviral drugs.

The current clinical conditions are compromised but stationary; the prognosis is being reserved.

To date, 26 patients have been discharged after negative test results.

At the moment 11 symptomatic patients coming from areas of China affected by the epidemic are hospitalized. All were tested for the new coronavirus, but are not yet confirmed.

As for the 20 asymptomatic people who have had contact with the positive Chinese couple, they continue to be under observation at the Institute.

They are all in good general condition and their health is of no concern.

All people of Chinese nationality currently hosted at the Institute are receiving great attention from the Institute community.

All of them are served meals typical of their Chinese culture and are assisted by voluntary mediators who are involved in facilitating communications.

Their permanence in the health facility follows the protocol that the hospital is used to ensure for all its patients.

In the event of changes in the clinical picture, immediate updates will be given.

Combined with a death in HK, and the american couple now hospitalsed in a worsened condition, perhaps the severity of the impact of the virus abroad was prematurely underestimated.

Graces7 · 04-02-2020 12:34PM

megatron989 wrote: »

Was only a few weeks ago that their where only a handful of cases in china, look how that turned out within a month. People act like it's grand, but imo we would need a miracle to dodge this bullet. The current infected outside of china have the luxury of well equiped hospitals and staff to care for them. What happens when the numbers of infected needing emergency help reaches, I dunno, 1000? 500?
If we had 50 here it would cripple our system never mind 500. Hospitals bursting at the seams as it is.
I'd say if it comes to Ireland, once it lands it'll be loose and their will be no stopping it until it burns out.
It's that exponential growth that scares me. Once she gets going your in trouble.

The trolley count today is 640. " a dangerous and unacceptable figure" say INMO

silverharp · 04-02-2020 12:46PM

Hande hoche! wrote: »

Ordered the blu ray of outbreak. Think Contagion might be on Netflix Ireland, not 100% on that.

There is a 1970's tv show called Survivors, 90's remake too . The 70's one is up on Youtube

04-02-2020 12:48PM

This sounds like a stupid question but I'll ask it anyway.. Can the severity of your typical flu or coronavirus be impacted by how much of the virus you actually get exposed to? Or does it all go the same way once it's inside you? I feel it's the latter.

whisky_galore · 04-02-2020 12:48PM

Duke of Url wrote: »

Did you see anything like this where you are?

Signs outside restaurants in Hoi An, Vietnam, taken in January 2020.

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/31/asia/wuhan-coronavirus-racism-fear-intl-hnk/index.html

No love lost between Vietnamese and Chinese anyhow.

Graces7 · 04-02-2020 12:50PM

silverharp wrote: »

There is a 1970's tv show called Survivors, 90's remake too . The 70's one is up on Youtube

A great series; watched it twice already

fritzelly · 04-02-2020 01:04PM

UK advises all British to leave China

igCorcaigh · 04-02-2020 01:14PM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

This sounds like a stupid question but I'll ask it anyway.. Can the severity of your typical flu or coronavirus be impacted by how much of the virus you actually get exposed to? Or does it all go the same way once it's inside you? I feel it's the latter.

Yes, amount of virus initially exposed to makes a difference in how transmissible it is, also on severity of illness AFAIK.

pc7 · 04-02-2020 01:15PM

fritzelly wrote: »

UK advises all British to leave China

Wow, would that be unprecedented?

Fr_Dougal · 04-02-2020 01:15PM

fritzelly wrote: »

UK advises all British to leave China

First Europe, now China.

bb12 · 04-02-2020 01:20PM

fritzelly wrote: »

UK advises all British to leave China

source?

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

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