SARS CoV-2 coronavirus / Covid-19 (No tin foil hat silliness please)

[DVG7]

How deadly is a virus that kills around 15 people in what I imagine has been around 1 month since onset?

well, given the fact that it’s killed people, I’d put it at pretty deadly in the how deadly scale

 

[Di Maria's angel]

well, given the fact that it’s killed people, I’d put it at pretty deadly in the how deadly scale

Isn't the common cold still one of the biggest killers? No one really considers it deadly.

 

[DVG7]

Isn't the common cold still one of the biggest killers? No one really considers it deadly.

what is it, 400 cases confirmed? And 15deaths? So it’s 3.75% deadly

 

[Di Maria's angel]

what is it, 400 cases confirmed? And 15deaths? So it’s 3.75% deadly

I read that Imperial College estimate that by the 18th, there would have been at least 1000 cases.

 

[Smores]

Locking down an area of 20million people is quite an alarming measure to be fair.

I think most governments now are quite ultra-alert because of the increasing risk of a really deadly virus.

 

[UnrelatedPsuedo]

Locking down an area of 20million people is quite an alarming measure to be fair.

I think most governments now are quite ultra-alert because of the increasing risk of a really deadly virus.

WUHAN! WUHAN! Got them all in Check...

 

[sun_tzu]

what is it, 400 cases confirmed? And 15deaths? So it’s 3.75% deadly

probably not - there will be a lot of people who dont exhibit enough symptoms to present themselves to medical facilities and be included in the totals - equally there might be people who have a natural immunity to it - so it might be much less deadly

Of course the converse part of that argument is that there might be many more people carrying the virus round and potentially spreading it

I guess we just don't know enough to be certain at this point but for sure such an outbreak around Chinese new year is a bad combination... I mean if you were writing a movie script for some apocalyptic, dystopian horror then worlds biggest mass migration and a unknown, untreatable communicable disease wouldn't be a bad start

 

[fergieisold]

what is it, 400 cases confirmed? And 15deaths? So it’s 3.75% deadly

need demographics. If it is the weak and the old then not that worrying.

 

[Di Maria's angel]

need demographics. If it is the weak and the old then not that worrying.

They said most of deaths were elderly men with underlying health issues.

 

[MadMike]

What stocks do I invest in to profit from the pandemonium this will cause?

 

[Raulduke]

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[Paxi]

Given they're about a sixth of the world's population you'd expect them to be one of the most likely candidates right off the bat. Then if you account for living standards, how they might handle e.g. animals then it might be even more likely.
I don't know why it's not India though, they should be about as likely candidates.

Nice.

 

[Paxi]

what is it, 400 cases confirmed? And 15deaths? So it’s 3.75% deadly

That's a low mortality rate to be fair. Either avian or swine flu has 60% mortality rate -- just seen that statistic in that new netflix series about next global pandemic, which is almost certain, they say.

My worry is, that it could mutate into something much more deadly and we'd all be fecked then.

 

[Di Maria's angel]

That's a low mortality rate to be fair. Either avian or swine flu has 60% mortality rate -- just seen that statistic in that new netflix series about next global pandemic, which is almost certain, they say.

My worry is, that it could mutate into something much more deadly and we'd all be fecked then.

Mutate into something out of the X-men?

 

[sun_tzu]

Not anymore they're not. A second city just issued a travel ban. If it continues to get worse the whole country will shutdown by the weekend.

Bus them into Hong Kong... that should stop the protests

 

[Eckers99]

What stocks do I invest in to profit from the pandemonium this will cause?

Masks, tinned food, tinfoil hats

 

[poleglass red]

What stocks do I invest in to profit from the pandemonium this will cause?

liquid handwash or wet ones/wipes at a stretch

 

[P-Ro]

What stocks do I invest in to profit from the pandemonium this will cause?

Indian takeaways.

 

[adexkola]

Wuhan Pan(demic) ain't nothing to feck with.

The Wuhan can be dangerous
Do you think your virus can defeat me?

These deserve more love.

 

[Vato]

Ffs, too late to make wu tang jokes. Story of my life.

 

[Di Maria's angel]

5 in Scotland being tested. 1 in NI.

 

[Rams]

I’ve just coughed, think I might have wuhan.

 

[Di Maria's angel]

I’ve just coughed, think I might have wuhan.

Good (not) knowing you. At least you won't see Pool win the league.

 

[Rams]

Good (not) knowing you. At least you won't see Pool win the league.

I hope I live to see United reach twenty wuhan titles.

 

[Redplane]

The good news is that most of us are still alive to witness the Caf awards show.

 

[Di Maria's angel]

I hope I live to see United reach twenty wuhan titles.

Damn, I missed the chance to say "you wuhan't see".

 

[horsechoker]

Every thought Pogba was the virus but little did we know it was Wuhan Mata!

 

[Coops73]

I like Coronas, specially in the summer, slice of lime, ice cold...feck it I’ll drink morettis instead then.

 

[wr8_utd]

The videos on Twitter are a bit alarming. People just collapsing in the streets and hospitals.
This is beginning to spread now and there have been cases in around 12 countries.

 

[wr8_utd]

China built a lab to study SARS & Ebola in #Wuhan - & US scientists warned in 2017 that a virus could 'escape' the facility located in the same city that's at the #coronavirus outbreak's center.

 

[Im red2]

Plus the massive variety of animals eaten in China - basically if it moves, someone there will either find a recipe for it or some 'medicinal benefit'. That clearly increases the window of opportunity for these bugs.

Chinese will eat anything with legs except a chair. Apparently only one lab in China can handle the virus, and guess what city it is in. Wuhan I wonder if it maybe, escaped from there. Nature

 

[Sweet Square]

Chinese will eat anything with legs except a chair.

Less of the racism would be great.

Thanks.

 

[RUUD_10_LEGEND]

Dry January is getting tougher now they keep mentioning 'Corona' on the TV and radio

 

[P-Ro]

The videos on Twitter are a bit alarming. People just collapsing in the streets and hospitals.
This is beginning to spread now and there have been cases in around 12 countries.

I searched that after your post and the first thing which came up was a video of a guy eating live baby mice using chopstix at a restaurant purportedly in Wuhan. Was fecking dreadful. The lazy, racist message of the video was that Chinese people are to blame for this fatal virus.

 

[Sanchez7]

I searched that after your post and the first thing which came up was a video of a guy eating live baby mice using chopstix at a restaurant purportedly in Wuhan. Was fecking dreadful. The lazy, racist message of the video was that Chinese people are to blame for this fatal virus.

Exactly the same thing happened to me. I can't get it out of my head and feel pretty grossed out. I don't condemn it though, it is a cultural thing and they are within their right to eat whatever they want.

 

[Eleven-Eighteen]

China is a building a hospital in *2 weeks* to house all the patients affected by this virus, and goddamn are they going to succeed

Maniacs the lot of them

 

[sun_tzu]

China is a building a hospital in *2 weeks* to house all the patients affected by this virus, and goddamn are they going to succeed

Maniacs the lot of them

Id have thought it easier to ship them all to hong kong - 2 birds one stone etc

 

[altodevil]

Exactly the same thing happened to me. I can't get it out of my head and feel pretty grossed out. I don't condemn it though, it is a cultural thing and they are within their right to eat whatever they want.

Yeah...that's gonna be a no from me

 

[Inigo Montoya]

Less of the racism would be great.

Thanks.

Terrible stereotyping.

They have been known to eat Sea Cucumbers. They don’t have legs!

So it’s bullshit

 

[Di Maria's angel]

Yeah...that's gonna be a no from me

If its true that they eat stuff thats still moving, you gotta ask why?