Topic: Coronavirus Outbreak - page 149. (Read 29937 times)

It probably already is there. One woman escaped the quarantine in Wuhan, still flew to France and bragged about it online. Thank goodness for the French that she was stupid enough to talk about it and that there was outrage over her behavior by Weibo users, else no one would know they already have a Petri dish walking around Paris. https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1231898/coronavirus-latest-chinese-woman-france-sneaked-in-infected-corona-virus-wuhan-weibo

they have spend money in the billions to look good despite the virus having killed just 26 people

Yes media has a story to tell and they got this.
This virus is out and China is taking all possible measures to counter this. They have lock down around 5 cities and building a 1000 bed hospital that will be completed in 10 days.

Some of the coverage is sensationalist and some is fear mongering but I don't see it as xenophobia.  Our modern technological civilization is far more fragile than most think it is - and many people, subconsciously, know this hence the popularity of zombie and end-of-world scenarios.

Each of these outbreaks is one more trial run; one more practice game before the big one.

And the west coast ebola outbreak was stopped by a fortuitous mutation; the current east coast outbreak is still simmering on.

like a chinese governeur during the chinese restoration cholera outbreak age once said to a french doctor:

"i will not do any cholera vaccinations, this is the most fertile region in the entire chinese empire, the farmers have up to 4 harvests a year and still the people are hungry, we need those diseases, to tear the needed holes into our midsts so the remaining ones have a chance to eat and live."

those viruses decrease the tax burden for the young, by tearing holes into the elderly.

Coronavirus is now also comming to the west

Media hysteria with little to no facts.

And H1N1 is a form of flu. What is your point?

According to wikipedia the Coronavirus is in fact the common cold.

"...patients with the common cold that were subsequently named human coronavirus 229E and human coronavirus OC43..." -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/please-help-us-supply-shortages-rock-wuhan-outbreak-overwhelms-chinese-healthcare

https://www.zerohedge.com/health/time-im-petrified-virologist-who-helped-discover-sars-offers-chilling-take-coronavirus

I think that we cannot avoid a pandemia from this virus.
It was firstly inspected in a city with over 11 million people so it is inevitable to eliminate it now.
I wish I will be wrong about that but I'm afraid I will not.

Can't believe they're blaming Americans for it
Their markets are a shitshow.

Hey, all the fake news sites keep saying the sick are turning into zombies!

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1232814/Coronavirus-horror-China-virus-Wuhan-zombies-epidemic-video
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10808633/coronavirus-wuhan-zombieland/

Can't we just drone them all and make it a robots vs. zombies apocalypse? The big ones can zap the walkers, then we can make little mini-drones that fly around and vaxxinate everybody.

Resistance is a totally different subject and one we in the us should be more worried about than something that has killed a few dozen old men in china.  Its not like we can't focus on both but at the moment these are two public health issues where one is blown up in the media and one is barely talked about. 

Don't you find it interesting that the one taking form on the other side of the world is getting more attention than the one killing 35,000 Americans each year.  I have to push back because I see people worried coronavirus will kill them but they don't even know what antibiotic resistant bacteria are.  Thats a bit backwards.  I'm not trying to downplay coronavirus from a public health perspective but from an american perspective its about priorities.  Theres a long pattern in this country to worry about things happening everywhere else in the world but here so I need to fight it on every front. 

Why would we focus on something that has affected one person and completely ignore something that has affected millions?  Could it be because thats what the meat industry wants us to do?

As usual, you show facts, logic and science are not your strong suit. Because people are reporting on an outbreak and it began in China, it is automatically xenophobia? WHAT?

As this is a novel virus, the true fatality rates are not yet possible to be known, but some how you are smarter than all of the worlds epidemiologists combined apparently and have the real scoop. This virus, on the LOW END possible fatality rate based on existing numbers is SEVERAL TIMES more infectious than regular flu MINIMUM. Based on China's past history of fudging these numbers as they did with the S.A.R.S. outbreak, these can not be considered reliable. Other estimates put the fatality rate as high as 38%. No there aren't new strains of flu every year more deadly than this. That is fucking retarded. Additionally antibiotic resistant bacteria is a totally different subject. We might as well talk about how dangerous it is to drive and compare that. As I have said before, you belong no where near "educating" anyone.

https://flutrackers.com/forum/forum/the-pandemic-discussion-forum/824075-discussion-estimating-the-cfr-for-2019-ncov

This has the potential to really get out of hand during the flu season if it is difficult to tell the difference between this and the flu.

China was not forthcoming during the SARS outbreak and some are saying that China might not be telling the truth about the number of deaths and illnesses in China. A friend of mine who used to live in China said that he heard from his friends in China that those in the quarantined city are being threatened with 7 years in jail if they try to leave. 

Here's a situation update by WHO


There are further reports of cases from South Asia that has not been included here. These flu generally do go away when the winter ends. So, quarantine too is a good strategy.

That's interesting and let's start with the begging.

I am not a medic but this is the opinion after living for some years in an area where diseases were spreading fast because of the hygiene.

This virus is not common for humans and it's the 5th outbreak in 30 years and people starting researching them more. What's interesting these viruses developed a lot in the last hundred of years after they started attacking the animals.

Right now we see that this virus specific doesn't have a big spread speaking that is out for 1 month and 2 weeks. Now we as humans we have eating patterns: eath pork, beef; we're being told that these are good for us. But what happens when we try to eat something different from totally different areas?

Like let's try out this new bat that's cming from Cambodgia or whatever. For the first few times there is no problem, but in time it happens to develope and he learns how to atack our body, it becomes aggresive.

Sadly, there is no quarantine now on Earth anymore, and there was a strange case last week, when someone took the temperature of a person with the virus and afterwards he used the same machine to use it for another 100 people; this is how the virus is being spreaded.

What's the solve? We don't know yet. Speaking that virus has an incubation periode of 48 hours at least and first symptoms come out after at least 14 days, it's hard to say.

Now, in my country the grandmas are: look son, on tv the woman has a problem with her hand, it hurts her-> she has cancer. maybe i also have cancer...

The news that you posted in the thread are same as my grandma. For now it's hard to find the virus specifics as it manifests same as a usual cold, and later on maybe pneumonia.

I am curious to see how it is going, Ebola is not over but the world is changing so fast the views and stops looking for the better solutions.

Cheers,

M.

Not really.  I'm not saying the disease is not deadly but its definitely of less concern than something that is already highly infectious, deadly and fully spread like the flu.   Its just about sensationalism in the media and fear-mongering that appeals to xenophobic bias against China.   There are new strains of the flu every year that are much more deadly and aren't covered by the flu vaccine but they hardly get any coverage.  Like, how many of the people criticizing Chinese for eating "strange" animals are actually vegan?  How many of them know or care about the amounts of antibiotic resistant bacteria that come off of animal farms into the human population and kills thousands each year? 

Diseases only seem get a lot of scary coverage when they come from the global south.  Remember ebola?

With Influenza it has been here for quite some time now and there is already treatment for it but with the Coronavirus it's very new and people tend to get scared of new viruses which comes out of nowhere and are very deadly as a matter of fact. Chinese authorities should be commended for enforcing a citywide quarantine on Wuhan with a population of 11M people just to stop the spread of the virus.