What I found most disturbing in Winston's video is that there are people with active symptoms who bragged that they circumvented the Chinese quarantine control. These people made it out of China and are now in France, Australia or anywhere else without being properly checked for any infection of nCoV. So much for the phrase "we have everything under control". With an incubation period of up to 24 days and a disease progression of up to 5 weeks until death or full recovery occurs things have become out of control some weeks ago already.
Usually, when politicians say "we have everything under control", people become alerted. This phrase serves only one purpose: to prevent any panic. Now that masks/respirators are out of stock, also urgent medication like ibuprofen is subject to panic buying everywhere.
You do not need to be a Harvard professor to expect that as a possible outcome, follow the news, see the numbers and the easiness of transmission of this particular strain and you can come to that conclusion by yourself.
Still there are up to now surprisingly few cases outside China, the world is doing an effective job delaying the spread, and even if that only means that a pandemic is postponed, winning time gets us a tiny bit closer to an effective vaccine that is expected in a year and a half (that hopefully will be worldwide available).
I’m just concerned about the cruise liners — which seem perfectly set up to spread the virus, not so much among well off passengers in their windowed staterooms with outside decks, but in the windowless shared below deck rooms used by staff and by low-cost cruise passengers.
Fortunately a lot of bat caves are closed to exploring due to the spread of white nose fungus, perhaps lessening the chance some sick caver will pass the virus to local bat populations.
I wonder what other mammals (and birds?) can host it?
The Chinese government has ordered all the people under quarantine to kill their pets, so I guess they figure dogs, cats, rabbits, etc. are likely carriers of the disease.
Please, stay calm. The virus has not even completed it’s foreplay.
There’s more to come. Does killing pets look like a sign of a well-thought-out strategy?
If you’re not having a healthy lifestile, it’s about the right time to adopt one.
Like: sleep a lot, but not around. Drink a lot: of water. Walk your dog and clean your lungs.