Anybody want a Corona?

[bune]

are you, like, on anything that would cause you to post in a manic frenzy all day long?

[bune]

Nature.com had a story in 2017 about a maximum security facility in Wuhan in China that was studying the deadliest diseases and viruses. One of a network of new across China.
Not to go tin foil hat but this is bio warfare. They probably have a vaccine too.
Millions of Chinese leaving the country on holiday this week for Chinese New Year.



Ps I’m renaming this the Kung Flu

if it were engineered they did a piss-poor job of it since the mortality rate seems to be pretty low at the moment.

[JuanHamm]

Nature.com had a story in 2017 about a maximum security facility in Wuhan in China that was studying the deadliest diseases and viruses. One of a network of new across China.
Not to go tin foil hat but this is bio warfare. They probably have a vaccine too.
Millions of Chinese leaving the country on holiday this week for Chinese New Year.



Ps I’m renaming this the Kung Flu

if it were engineered they did a piss-poor job of it since the mortality rate seems to be pretty low at the moment.

It's certainly a very big coincidence that this virus sprung up exactly where the Chinese have a facility for studying infectious diseases, but I would suspect negligence before anything malicious.

[ABNorman]

Wife and I are going to Singapore and Vietnam in April, so hoping this is sorted in some way before then...

[doug rr]

Wife and I are going to Singapore and Vietnam in April, so hoping this is sorted in some way before then...

nothing bad gets in or out of singapore, its the cleanest place in the world..also try the chili crab, its fantastic

[96583UP]

are you, like, on anything that would cause you to post in a manic frenzy all day long?

only the joy of interaction with current/former pearl jam fans

[96583UP]

Wife and I are going to Singapore and Vietnam in April, so hoping this is sorted in some way before then...

nothing bad gets in or out of singapore, its the cleanest place in the world..also try the chili crab, its fantastic

yes, and we will have moved on to a new virus by April

[96583UP]

From WaPo:

The national health commission said early Sunday that the number of confirmed infections had soared 50 percent over the prior 24 hours to 1,975 people across 30 provinces. Fifty-six deaths have been reported, including in major metropolitan areas such as Shanghai. Several doctors in Beijing, the capital, also reported being infected.

clearly the real number is well above 2,000

[dimejinky99]

At what point does the Chinese government or WHO or UN ban all travel to and from China?

[Anders]

Starting to get scary this. Sorry for those affected.

[96583UP]

Read an article that says average incubation period is 10 days - unlike SARS where you pretty much immediately knew you had it

that means there are tons of people walking around who have it and may be contagious but won’t know until 10 days from now that they have it

[BurtReynolds]

[doone]

I think my flight from Seattle to Atlanta tomorrow is using a plane that came in from Beijing today. They'll clean it thoroughly, right?

I wish airplane manufacturers would come up with a way to disinfect cabins quickly but thoroughly instead of finding ways to cram more people into coach.

[96583UP]

potentially 30,000 to 200,000 infected

About 100,000 people could be infected with the new coronavirus around the world, experts have warned, as the UK government faced calls to reassure people that the NHS is ready to deal with any British cases within days.

Prof Neil Ferguson, a public health expert at Imperial College, said his “best guess” was that there were 100,000 affected by the virus even though there are only 2,000 confirmed cases so far, mostly in the city of Wuhan in China where the virus first appeared.

...

Ferguson, whose team have been modelling the disease for the World Health Organization, said they estimated the virus had a reproductive rate of 2.5-3, meaning that each person infected would potentially transmit it to up to three others.

“My best guess now is perhaps 100,000 cases right now,” he said, although it could be between 30,000 and 200,000. “Almost certainly many tens of thousands of people are infected.”

https://www.theguardian.com/science/202 ... perts-warn

[tragabigzanda]

FUCK ICE

[bune]

Fp edit: its come to my attention that Corona is an Anagram of Racoon....the truth is out there *xfiles theme intensifies*

[dimejinky99]

wicked excited to live in a major tourist destination at the height of travel season.

I’m traveling to Cambodia in a few days.

It’ll be fine. All fine.

[tragabigzanda]

FUCK ICE

[dimejinky99]

Don’t go to Cambodia dime.

And miss out on all the fun?

Seriously though, if this is passed person to person when are the Chinese closing their airports?

They already have 33 million people quarantined and locked down in their homes.

Close the airports you assholes

[BurtReynolds]