Coronavirus Part II - Its arrived - We're Doomed!!! See OP for Mod warnings

Kermit.de.frog · 29-02-2020 07:28PM

Boozybooze wrote: »

80,000 infected across the world/
Population of China is 1,400,000,000.

Chairman Xi will be most pleased.

splinter65 · 29-02-2020 07:28PM

Interesting that a man in Surrey in the UK has tested positive for Covid-19 having NOT been outside the country.
He appears to be a publican.
His pub and the health Centre he presented himself at are being “deep cleaned”.
It’s a boom time for the deep cleaning companies. Can you imagine?

Boozybooze · 29-02-2020 07:29PM

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

Est fatality rates so far

US: 1.4%
Iran: 7.3%
Italy: 2.6%
South Korea: 0.5%
Japan: 2.1%
China: 3.6%
Taiwan: 2.6%
France: 2.7%

Do you have the statistics for the standard Flu? Pretty similar I would imagine.

Cupatae · 29-02-2020 07:29PM

Boozybooze wrote: »

80,000 infected across the world/
Population of China is 1,400,000,000.
Population of the World is 7,700,000,000

I think we'll be okay. Yes it seems to have a slightly higher death rate than the Flu but people freaking out about is mad. The media are absolutely loving this.

Wish now I got into the hand sanitizer business so gullible fools will buy it at ten times the cost.

welcome to the "ah it ll be grand camp"

tillyfilly · 29-02-2020 07:29PM

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

Est fatality rates so far

US: 1.4%
Iran: 7.3%
Italy: 2.6%
South Korea: 0.5%
Japan: 2.1%
China: 3.6%
Taiwan: 2.6%
France: 2.7%

The South Koreans are doing something right

spurious · 29-02-2020 07:29PM

gabeeg wrote: »

but it's not a flu

otherwise, great post

You're right, it's closer to the common cold than a flu, but carry on.

Cases are not deaths.

BanditLuke · 29-02-2020 07:29PM

Cupatae wrote: »

And we have arrived... oh look banditluke liked the post why am i not surprised lmao so over the top. but hey we arent scaremongering :D:rolleyes:

Rent free

tillyfilly · 29-02-2020 07:30PM

splinter65 wrote: »

Interesting that a man in Surrey in the UK has tested positive for Covid-19 having NOT been outside the country.
He appears to be a publican.
His pub and the health Centre he presented himself at are being “deep cleaned”.
It’s a boom time for the deep cleaning companies. Can you imagine?

Yes

BanditLuke · 29-02-2020 07:31PM

spurious wrote: »

You're right, it's closer to the common cold than a flu, but carry on.

Cases are not deaths.

Yeah that's why governments are taking these measures

common cold

Ah this thread is pure gold

Loafing Oaf · 29-02-2020 07:31PM

tillyfilly wrote: »

The South Koreans are doing something right

And the Iranians must surely be grossly underestimating their number of cases...

Kermit.de.frog · 29-02-2020 07:31PM

Boozybooze wrote: »

Do you have the statistics for the standard Flu? Pretty similar I would imagine.

Not even close. Less than 0.1%.

In the US it is 0.05%

tillyfilly · 29-02-2020 07:31PM

Reading every post on this thread and I just realised this virus is just like the flu no worse

4068ac1elhodqr · 29-02-2020 07:32PM

Boozybooze wrote: »

80,000 infected across the world/

So far...

Give a decent 3mths to get going, then a calm down in Summer, then (likely) a Spanish Flu Wave 2 effect, for which, hold on to your hats.

Do you have any 90% proof booze, Boozybooze? As you could likely flog that, instead of the regular alchogels.

Indestructable · 29-02-2020 07:32PM

spurious wrote: »

You're right, it's closer to the common cold than a flu, but carry on.

Cases are not deaths.

You're mental if you think this is close to the common cold?? Cant be serious

fr336 · 29-02-2020 07:32PM

Boozybooze wrote: »

The media are absolutely loving this.

Actually the media started off being uncharacteristically coy on Coronavirus. Weirdly so. It was only when the cases in Italy started surging they, the markets and the governments clearly thought "Ah yes this could be quite bad if left to its own devices".

EltonJohn69 · 29-02-2020 07:32PM

Is anyone reading this thread hoping to see something about a miracle drug/treatment/ cure ???

odyssey06 · 29-02-2020 07:32PM

Boozybooze wrote: »

80,000 infected across the world/
Population of China is 1,400,000,000.
Population of the World is 7,700,000,000

I think we'll be okay. Yes it seems to have a slightly higher death rate than the Flu but people freaking out about is mad. The media are absolutely loving this.

Wish now I got into the hand sanitizer business so gullible fools will buy it at ten times the cost.

IF it hospitalises twice as many people as a bad flu (e.g. an A strain that wasn't in the vaccine) it has the potential to overwhelm the capacity of the health service to cope with the 5-15% who get severe complications e.g. pneumonia needing ventilators.

This is a quantity game but not a quality game i.e. I would much rather get coronavirus than Ebola but if 1 million people get coronavirus it's a whole other order of threat.

drunkmonkey · 29-02-2020 07:32PM

Runaways wrote: »

I definitely will. Have to go see my doc soon anyways unrelated so I’ll bring it up. I took pics over there of the antibiotics I had to take for the bits and the cut in case he needs to know. I finished them tho so it’s should be all good fingers crossed.

It's not sepsis, you'd be in the ICU by now. If you were diabetic or something like that it would have already wiped you out. Watch out for it in anyone that's sick though, it's not something people think of yet it's one of the biggest killers out there.

CinemaGuy45 · 29-02-2020 07:32PM

BanditLuke wrote: »

Yeah that's why governments are taking these measures common cold

Ah this thread is pure gold

Have to warn you everything that shines is not gold.

gabeeg · 29-02-2020 07:33PM

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

Not even close. Less than 0.1%.

It's different every year of course

this year it's 0.05% in the US

So coronavirus is many, many times more lethal and also much more infectious

Call Me Jimmy · 29-02-2020 07:33PM

spurious wrote: »

Cases are not deaths.

How could you keep this to yourself... for a a whole month?!

Kermit.de.frog · 29-02-2020 07:33PM

Here is how it's gone for Italy in the space of a week

Day1: 14cases/1dead
Day2: 76/2
Day3: 153/3
Day4: 231/7
Day5: 374/12
Day6: 528/17
Day7: 821/21
Day8: 1128/29

Picture that happening in this country. People would get their heads out of their backsides right quick!

tillyfilly · 29-02-2020 07:34PM

EltonJohn69 wrote: »

Is anyone reading this thread hoping to see something about a miracle drug/treatment/ cure ???

I think some would be dismayed at such a turn of events

spurious · 29-02-2020 07:34PM

BanditLuke wrote: »

Yeah that's why governments are taking these measures common cold

Ah this thread is pure gold

Sigh.
It is because it is an unknown version that they are taking the measures. Doesn't change what it is, a type of common cold virus.

I can see now how some of the daft conspiracy theories suck people in.

cnocbui · 29-02-2020 07:34PM

Hmmm, talk about feeding the bio-weapon conspiracy theorists. Pure gold.

Chinese laboratory that first shared coronavirus genome with world ordered to close for ‘rectification’, hindering its Covid-19 research

No reason was given for the closure of Shanghai facility, which released information about the virus ahead of authorities
One source at the laboratory said the closure has hampered scientists’ research when they should be ‘racing against the clock’

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3052966/chinese-laboratory-first-shared-coronavirus-genome-world-ordered

EltonJohn69 · 29-02-2020 07:34PM

Watched outbreak last night... and all three male leads Dustin Hoffman, Kevin Spacey and Cuban Gooding Jr. have been accused of sexual assault..... make of that what you will.....

odyssey06 · 29-02-2020 07:34PM

spurious wrote: »

You're right, it's closer to the common cold than a flu, but carry on.

Cases are not deaths.

Have you ever been told to self isolate because of a common cold?
Has a country ever closed its border or isolate a province because of the common cold?

Runaways · 29-02-2020 07:35PM

drunkmonkey wrote: »

It's not sepsis, you'd be in the ICU by now. If you were diabetic or something like that it would have already wiped you out. Watch out for it in anyone that's sick though, it's not something people think of yet it's one of the biggest killers out there.

Will do.

I’ve heard of it but never realized how serious or how many it killed. Scary man

Cupatae · 29-02-2020 07:36PM

BanditLuke wrote: »

Yeah that's why governments are taking these measures common cold

Ah this thread is pure gold

yourself and cinemaguy

:D:pac:

gabeeg · 29-02-2020 07:36PM

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

Here is how it's gone for Italy in the space of a week

Day1: 14cases/1dead
Day2: 76/2
Day3: 153/3
Day4: 231/7
Day5: 374/12
Day6: 528/17
Day7: 821/21
Day8: 1128/29

Picture that happening in this country. People would get their heads out of the backsides right quick!

Germany, France and Spain seem to be on the same trajectory

Doubling roughly every 2 days

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