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.
I could give you some recipes, but the crucial part in those is mostly the killing of the animal.
The things that occur during the dog-eat-festival in Yulin make the community officer look like Florence Nightingale or mother Teresa.
