A lot of this is hoping it behaves similarly to it's cousin the common cold, which usually dies down once temperatures rise. However, with cases being reported in Singapore and other warmer climates, this might be questionable.
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Nope. Less people get sick with warmer weather, but the virus seems to be quite resilient.
China can China because CCP controls everything and can track most people with their phone/wechat. I don't think a major city like New York or LA is going to be able to do a full city lockdown like Wuhan.
People are afraid. Scared people do stupid and bad things.
Most experts are just going by the experience of SARS, CORVID-19's distant cousin.
Call me paranoid but I bought cheap canned goods that is enough for a month and some oatmeal today just in case. I'm not trusting my government with the actual numbers here in the Philippines.
Again i think people overestimate what China can do. There was no phone tracking it was just your low tech lock down.
Hell even in Singapore where probably the number of camera and tracking is only second to Urumqi the contact tracing was done with police work.
And i lived in Italy for 28 years, if a lock-down happen people will not revolt, some that think they are smarter will try to bypass it, but that happen everywhere.
Funny thing, most of infected come from an Italian national that come back from a business trip.
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Slightly off-topic (but not really), I was wondering if medical science has been employing GPU computing (especially Nvidia's CUDA) to model this virus.
I remember vaguely that the advances in GPU computing would benefit medicine in developing new drugs including new antibiotics, antivirals and possibly vaccines.
I remember vaguely that the advances in GPU computing would benefit medicine in developing new drugs including new antibiotics, antivirals and possibly vaccines.
Japanese government's mishandling of the situation continues to astound. They just announced that they "erroneously" let 23 people off the Diamond Princess who haven't even been tested since prior to 2/5 (the first day of the 14-day quarantine period).
Quite frankly, we don't deserve to host the Olympics this year.
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https://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20200222-00000089-mai-soci
Edit: They say that out of the 23 passengers, none of which had symptoms upon disembarking, they have already determined 3 to be negative. The other 20 have been asked to stay home and await testing (according to the article).
Quite frankly, we don't deserve to host the Olympics this year.
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https://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20200222-00000089-mai-soci
Edit: They say that out of the 23 passengers, none of which had symptoms upon disembarking, they have already determined 3 to be negative. The other 20 have been asked to stay home and await testing (according to the article).
I mean i want to shit to any cult like any other sensible guy, but i don't think it was intentional.
Criminally stupid maybe.
So damn weird.
The white graffiti under the number of days (cut off in the above pic, unfortunately) says "CHUSHI DA CHUSHI!" (Call the whole thing off!)
That guy has the right idea. Or at least delay them.
In Italy confimed coronavirus cases raise to 50:
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From 3 cases in Lombardy just yesterday, to 39 in the region + 11 in the Veneto region
And 2 deaths
It's quite a jump
And 2 deaths
It's quite a jump
I'm not saying they shouldn't (or that they won't), but that would not be a decision to make lightly. It could be a business-ending decision for huge numbers of companies involved in tourism and preparations. Some athletes who have been training their whole lives to compete this year might not be able to defer everything a year and would lose their one chance at the Olympics. Neither of those thing would be worth allowing the disease to spread widely, in my opinion, but they are factors that will be weighed in that decision.
We will just have to soldier through, containment is not possible for financial and practical reasons. All efforts and money should be on developing a cure.
One of the people who just tested positively in Japan went to Indonesia for a family holiday and came back a few days ago.
Is there a way to scientifically figure out whether this person caught the virus in Japan before their vacation or caught it in Indonesia?
Edit: Nevermind, I see that they probably caught it before the trip since they were exhibiting symptoms on the 12th. Which means they could have spread it across Indonesia.
yep exactly there might be a strong chance he spread it around in indonesia wherever he went, Bali probably?
You left out the part where it says the guy reported for work at the health care facility for the ELDERLY that employs him two days before going to Indonesia. Expect some more bad news from that facility in the coming week(s).
Coronavirus: US says Russia behind disinformation campaign
Thousands of fake social media accounts promote conspiracies and seize on international health concerns, say US officials
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A woman in Canada tested positive after traveling to Iran. That has got health officials concerned
https://edition.cnn.com/asia/live-n...0-intl-hnk/h_4913829eb72a895966588681c48cf45e
So one new case in Canada, possibly more im guessing
https://edition.cnn.com/asia/live-n...0-intl-hnk/h_4913829eb72a895966588681c48cf45e
So one new case in Canada, possibly more im guessing
Seeing how we've had multiple cases of people getting it while they were in Iran it might be time to put some restrictions on people coming from there.
I don't know whether to laugh at their audacity or cry at their incompetence.
That, plus the news of one of the ship disembarkees testing positive after being released (Remember, many of these people were sent home using PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION), has the outlook for next week and beyond looking fairly grim.
Coronavirus: US says Russia behind disinformation campaign
Thousands of fake social media accounts promote conspiracies and seize on international health concerns, say US officials
That is so stupid on the government and on the people who left.
The worst thing is the government knew about the virus for about a month but waited until after anti US protest to make it public so more people would take part. Also mosques and other religious centers are refusing to close while government is begging them to close as the religious nutjobs believe that the best cure is prayer.
Thankfully I've yet to see that moronic conspiracy theory. I've seen the ones where the Chinese government could be behind it since apparently the outbreak started literally right near their chemical weapons facility - but nothing as braindead as the CIA being behind it.Coronavirus: US says Russia behind disinformation campaign
Thousands of fake social media accounts promote conspiracies and seize on international health concerns, say US officials
Coronavirus: US says Russia behind disinformation campaign
Thousands of fake social media accounts promote conspiracies and seize on international health concerns, say US officials
Shit is basically at criminal levels of negligence in Japan. And per the latest new case updates, the number of new cases per day is rising at a rate of more than double what it was a couple days ago. What a disaster.
It does seem to be that (like with any exponential function), when it takes off, it really fucking takes off.
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I'm experience a lot of cough and various "standard" flu symptoms. I don't want to call the national emergency number, but I'm a little worried, since I visit parents and grandma basically everyday. If my temperature will rise in the next hours (or the next few days) I will definitly go for a test. Ah, I live in Italy, two hours of distance from the first case reported.
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Please get tested. You don't want to infect your elders. They will fare much worse if they catch it.
"I the undersigned do solemnly swear that I have not been to Hubei province in the last 60 days"
Quote is from the Imperial College London, here:
COVID-19
Since the emergence of the new coronavirus (COVID-19) in December 2019, we have adopted a policy of immediately sharing research findings on the deve...
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Quote is from the Imperial College London, here:
COVID-19
Since the emergence of the new coronavirus (COVID-19) in December 2019, we have adopted a policy of immediately sharing research findings on the deve...
That's why the narrative between experts has slowly shifted from containment to mitigation. The incubation period keeps getting longer and asymptomatic transmission slowly starts to gain some validity.
Do you guys think it would be appropriate to update the Thread Title once/when the WHO decides to declare this a pandemic? We seem to be about to enter that stage in a matter of days or weeks. Hard to tell when they'll make the call, but it's starting to take off in multiple regions now.
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