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

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    • #7862
      tillyfilly
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      givyjoe wrote: »
      Start of the video says the Chinese have confirmed it's airborne. Didn't hear that being mentioned again anywhere else today.

      Yes while on aeroplanes


    • #7863
      givyjoe
      Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,286 givyjoe
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      tillyfilly wrote: »
      Yes while on aeroplanes

      Eh, no, that isn't the case https://youtu.be/pshp3uZzHTw or not just planes.


    • #7864
      BanditLuke
      Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,600 BanditLuke
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      tillyfilly wrote: »
      Yes while on aeroplanes

      Nope not just on aeroplanes.


    • #7865
      givyjoe
      Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,286 givyjoe
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      Two trains in Italy stopped with suspected cases on board https://twitter.com/tancredipalmeri/status/1230975686338392069?s=19


    • #7866
      tillyfilly
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      givyjoe wrote: »
      Two trains in Italy stopped with suspected cases on board https://twitter.com/tancredipalmeri/status/1230975686338392069?s=19

      It’s trainborne now


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    • #7867
      Kermit.de.frog
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      Must be bad when Italy stops the trains running on time...


    • #7868
      Kermit.de.frog
      Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,455 Kermit.de.frog
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      If you tilt the map a nudge to the right it kind of looks like an outline of mickey mouse over the Asia Pacific which is kind of apt really

      2020.02.21map.PNG?itok=aMBTT1JK


    • #7869
      Nonoperational
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      Dr John the nurse is making a mint from this. Fair play.


    • #7870
      givyjoe
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      Twitter is the gift that keeps giving this evening. This absolute bell end of a woman lied about about clear on their test to get off her cruise ship.

      https://twitter.com/livecrisisnews/status/1230975076322902022?s=19


    • #7871
      fritzelly
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      givyjoe wrote: »
      Twitter is the gift that keeps giving this evening. This absolute bell end of a woman lied about about clear on their test to get off her cruise ship.

      https://twitter.com/livecrisisnews/status/1230975076322902022?s=19

      They're just taking people's word they're clear? That should be the story
      Anyway they haven't tested positive - yet...


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    • #7872
      BanditLuke
      Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,600 BanditLuke
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      givyjoe wrote: »
      Twitter is the gift that keeps giving this evening. This absolute bell end of a woman lied about about clear on their test to get off her cruise ship.

      https://twitter.com/livecrisisnews/status/1230975076322902022?s=19

      She'll be one of many.


    • #7873
      wakka12
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      First death in Italy


    • #7874
      drunkmonkey
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      wakka12 wrote: »
      First death in Italy

      50,000 now under quarantine in Italy

      https://milano.corriere.it/notizie/cronaca/20_febbraio_21/coronavirus-castiglione-d-adda-codogno-isolamento-non-uscite-casa-non-andate-pronto-soccorso-4b0597ee-548e-11ea-9196-da7d305401b7.shtml


    • #7875
      givyjoe
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      drunkmonkey wrote: »
      50,000 now under quarantine in Italy

      https://milano.corriere.it/notizie/cronaca/20_febbraio_21/coronavirus-castiglione-d-adda-codogno-isolamento-non-uscite-casa-non-andate-pronto-soccorso-4b0597ee-548e-11ea-9196-da7d305401b7.shtml

      Presumably for two weeks. Which came out of the blue. I hope these folks have been "stockpiling" enough supplies for two weeks of self quarantine.


    • #7876
      wakka12
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      No it was the elderly man in his 70s in the Veneto region


    • #7877
      drunkmonkey
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      givyjoe wrote: »
      Presumably for two weeks. Which came out of the blue. I hope these folks have been "stockpiling" enough supplies for two weeks of self quarantine.

      Poor sods are only getting a week off. "for a week the inhabitants will have to stay at home ".


    • #7878
      hmmm
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      givyjoe wrote: »
      Presumably for two weeks. Which came out of the blue. I hope these folks have been "stockpiling" enough supplies for two weeks of self quarantine.
      One week per the article. Incubation for most people seems to be 3 to 5 days, so that makes sense.

      Cases in Italy are jumping up now, but that's to be expected as they test close contacts of known carriers. A lot of countries are going to have similar outbreaks which need to be tackled.


    • #7879
      igCorcaigh
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      wakka12 wrote: »
      First death in Italy

      Cases 21
      First fatality :(

      This is looking like a bad thing :(


    • #7880
      igCorcaigh
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      Given the cfr in new countries over the last few days, I'm wondering if this thing could be pretty bad.

      Hope I'm wrong, but I just get bad feels recently.


    • #7881
      Mic 1972
      Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,213 Mic 1972
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      givyjoe wrote: »
      Presumably for two weeks. Which came out of the blue. I hope these folks have been "stockpiling" enough supplies for two weeks of self quarantine.


      they can still go to the shops and buy food, even in Wuhan people could still go food shopping and food was plenty in the shelves


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    • #7882
      igCorcaigh
      Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 12,770 igCorcaigh
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      2019, all is forgiven.

      This decade has had a very bad start :(


    • #7883
      tuxy
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      Mic 1972 wrote: »
      they can still go to the shops and buy food, even in Wuhan people could still go food shopping and food was plenty in the shelves

      Why do people think that two weeks would require a vast stockpile of supplies?
      A healthy person wouldn't even die from 2 weeks with no food.
      (not that the Italian services would let that happen.)
      Anyone who contracts the virus will be moved to hospital.


    • #7884
      Mic 1972
      Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,213 Mic 1972
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      igCorcaigh wrote: »
      2019, all is forgiven.

      This decade has had a very bad start :(


      Let's hope we see the end of it!


    • #7885
      wakka12
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      igCorcaigh wrote: »
      Given the cfr in new countries over the last few days, I'm wondering if this thing could be pretty bad.

      Hope I'm wrong, but I just get bad feels recently.

      There is likely many milder cases undetected but it does appear to be a dangerous disease going by the outcome of patients on the cruise liner and how many more deaths that have occurred in wuhan than you'd expect from seasonal flu in that timeframe


    • #7886
      pc7
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      Feck I really thought things were slowing down. Also booked flights to Paris, for March. Thinking iff italy spreads I’ll be staying home.


    • #7887
      Call Me Jimmy
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      tuxy wrote: »
      Why do people think that two weeks would require a vast stockpile of supplies?
      A healthy person wouldn't even die from 2 weeks with no food. Anyone who contracts the virus will be moved to hospital.

      In fairness has a quarantine lasted the time it was initially announced? They keep getting revised each week 'quarantine is extended another week' etc.

      Anyway for now they can go to the shop it's not a full lockdown.


    • #7888
      tuxy
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      Call Me Jimmy wrote: »
      In fairness has a quarantine lasted the time it was initially announced? They keep getting revised each week 'quarantine is extended another week' etc.

      Anyway for now they can go to the shop it's not a full lockdown.

      I think the one in the Wirral lasted about as long as expected.
      I can't see the Italian services letting people go without food and medical supplies, so I just wonder what these people should be stockpiling?


    • #7889
      drunkmonkey
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      pc7 wrote: »
      Feck I really thought things were slowing down. Also booked flights to Paris, for March. Thinking iff italy spreads I’ll be staying home.

      The number of ethnic Chinese in Ireland is estimated at 60,000. The group is potentially the largest (and if not the second largest) Minority Ethnic Community in the Irish State.

      I can't believe it's not here.


    • #7890
      s7ryf3925pivug
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      It's not going to be contained then. It's going to permanently establish itself as a seasonal disease. A counterpart of flu that is more infectious and kills a decent portion of people who are infected.

      As an island with a food surplus we technically could avoid exposure. But realistically we're not going to close our borders to infected countries. I'm not even sure we legally can close our borders to EU countries.


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    • #7891
      littlemac1980
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      tuxy wrote: »
      I can't see the Italian services letting people go without food and medical supplies, so so I just wonder what these people should be stockpiling?

      Spaghetti?


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