…the problem is that most of our Countries,can’t build a 1600 bed hospital in 13 days,if it is nesessary…
Its not magic. They are building it with a lot of flaws. Many new buildings are falling apart in China because of cutting corners and corruption.
It’s a freaking flu, bit stronger though.
Hydrate your self, eat vitamins and that’s it.
Well said, brief, to the point and point taken. It’s just a new variety of a common virus that is flu-like for most people, and just like other respiratory infectors, can cause severe or worse outcomes in some cases.
Also, keep fingers/hands away from eyes, nose, face. Maintain universally recognized, usual, customary and routine hand hygiene, too. Avoid unnecessary things that lower the immune system. Avoid infected people. Eat healthy by avoiding things that are recognized as not being health food.
What is scary is china and other countries reactions. Not like their reaction to a flu. And it could always mutate.
Yeah that’s why China took massive measures, closing borders, stopping flights, extending holidays … costing billions to their economy. Because it’s just a flu.
Your packages to and from China may take a while longer
The slower your package takes to be delivered from China, the better.
Gives more time for any coronavirus on or in your package to die before it gets to you.
Guess I’m lucky getting near 2 months for mine.
Left4Dead?
“Avoid all contact with infected individuals…”
What matters is the case fatality rate which is the number of people who die divided by the number who have the infection.
Right now that appears to be running about 2%, although honestly I think we have no idea what the real number is. First off, China is likely not being truthful about those numbers, but even if they are, odds are they really have no idea how many cases there are and how many deaths there are. They also don’t have the kind of medical resources to treat sick patients that a more developed nation would.
Until there is a significant outbreak in a first world country we won’t have a good estimate of the case fatality rate.
Let’s say that the real number is 2%. Let’s say that because this is a novel virus, and America is an immunologically naïeve population 1/5 of Americans contact the disease- 60 million people. That would mean 1.2 million deaths.
We will have to wait and see…
How exactly do you “replicate a virus”? Make a model out of clay and put it in a shrink-ray? :person_facepalming:
I would think also now would be the perfect time to watch the "Walking Dead" series whether you seen it or not. I'm just saying...
It’s like creating a supermodel. First you study very detailled what’s on the market.
Use every instrument available. Define your goal in a brainstorm session with your whole team.
After you come to a consensus, you take a host specimen of what comes closest to the goal.
Again, using the latest instruments, remove what you don’t like and replace with what you like.
Maybe in the future, we skip the host and donor and build straight from available building blocks.
The Australian scientists were able to get the virus to replicate itself in a cell culture using a a sample from a patient. He seemed to be implying it was a completely manufactured virus and that some lab managed to recreate it independently.
AFAIK the technology to truly create or change virii like that is a long way off, they can only inject some new RNA into existing ones (or maybe that was only bacteria/larger cells?)
Don't forget the heavy-handed, secretive, opaque responses that include outright denial and obfuscation, including punishing early whistle blowers such as the late ophthalmologist Li Wenliang of Wuhan, China. Dr. Li, is being hailed for his efforts as among the first to alert the medical profession to the new virus, but was forcibly quieted by the authoritarian Chinese government. Were it not for their incompetent response, the world might not be in at increased risk as it is now. Hard to say in hindsight.
All we can do now is best-practice personal and public hygiene. Plan for the worst, hope for the best.
slmjim
“1. He was never arrested, but called in and asked to sign an acknowledgment/warning about spreading rumors and sensitive info.
2. This is because he was an eye doctor not a virologist and was saying that the hospital had SARS (which is inaccurate)
3. People are upset in China because they want to think the whole epidemic could have been prevented, but back then nobody knew the pathology, transmission, or contagiousness of the new virus. People would have also been upset w extreme preventative measures that turned out to be a false alarm.
4. In the end the courts ruled in favor of Li and said the police didnt need to bring him in as well”
If his friend hadn’t reposted what he said about “SARS victims” to a public post that went viral and caused panic he wouldn’t have gotten any attention.