2020-03-12, 08:59 | Link #2 |
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No, I don't think so. This virus spreads easily since none of us has natural immunity, and it's at least ten times more deadly than influenza.
One example: Biogen held a two-day meeting of about 175 of its executives in Boston a few weeks ago. Seventy of those attending came down with COVID-19. In two days. Many of those people had kids, and some of the schools they attend are now considering closing. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/03/...d-coronavirus/
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2020-03-12, 09:30 | Link #3 |
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Metro Manila, Philippines, where I live will now be placed in a state of lockdown for the next 4 weeks.
Except for me of course, as a government doctor.
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2020-03-12, 11:49 | Link #4 |
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What's krass is how you can watch the markets melting away in a lava sea of red. Trump's one-sided travel ban which does nothing given the US doctors already found several hundred cases of Corovid 19 who must have gotten their illness in-country as well as the Saudi Oil war on Russia and US fracking Oil plus the lockdowns in several countries just scare all the investors into a frenzy. And given what the experts say it won't end in like a couple days or weeks, the new Coronavirus will stay with us for several months, maybe even longer, until we can vaccine against it to exterminate it like we did with several other sicknesses before they made a return due anti-vaxxers.
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2020-03-12, 12:35 | Link #5 |
AS Oji-kun
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And, no, it's not like the flu. Here's a description of the symptoms from an article in the Wall Street Journal about a Rhode Island school principal:
https://twitter.com/markberman/statu...17402728173569 This guy is 48.
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2020-03-12, 12:48 | Link #6 |
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Also Trump and Pence might be at risk now that it turns out that a Brasilian government official had corona when they met him together with his president. So either he got that in his country or in the US.
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2020-03-12, 13:34 | Link #7 | |
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First and foremost, I am no physician nor have any studies in said field.
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The reason we should be worried about SARS-CoV-2 (name of the virus) is because it is tens of times more lethal than worse seasonal flu, it can be spread before any symptoms (i.e. high temperature) appear and on average it takes five days for symptoms to appear (which is a lot of time for community spread to happen). The "good" news is that it does not kill the very young (so we are not facing extinction right in the face, at least not now, since the virus might mutate later on) and winter is ending (which IMO will not stop the virus spread on most countries until summer, first time in my life I can thank living in a place where we go from so-so winters to full blown summers in spring). So yeah, Trump's travel ban will not prevent virus community spread and governments are still being reactive instead of proactive like china* did. *you wont hear me often praise totalitarian governments. |
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2020-03-12, 13:57 | Link #9 |
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Taiwan has had the best response to the COVID-19 so far. As early as December, they applied a number of aggressive measures such as:
The whole list of 124 actions can be found here. Taiwan set up a command center that processes and coordinates all the information. Taiwanese health authorities also went onto every airplane that came from Wuhan back then to check people for symptoms. But the most important is that they took whatever was needed to educate the population time and time again about the virus. As a result, they only have had 45 cases or so since the very beginning. Wherever you are, you must tweet or write to your local representative/senator about this. I think Western governments have been particularly poor in the way they handled the problem, especially by ignoring for too long what Taiwan did to curb the spreading. |
2020-03-12, 14:14 | Link #10 |
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Oh! Stupid doubles down on stupid yet again, the world is lost thanks to the power puff politicians!
White House told federal health agency to classify coronavirus deliberations ...hampered the U.S. government’s response to the contagion... |
2020-03-12, 14:25 | Link #11 |
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Here is what I think of the so-called "top leaders" who have been irresponsible in this whole mess.
The whole lot of them can eat a truckload of turd. End rant. |
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2020-03-12, 15:40 | Link #16 |
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And just watch, when things eventually stabilize, trump and his cult are going to take credit for everything, acting as if it was him who singlehandedly developed the vaccine
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2/ How exactly is the West "responding accordingly"? They spent two months sneering at China while doing nothing. I doubt the result will be any different if they have two more months.
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